Officials from the United States Intelligence Community have given a number of pieces of evidence that show Palestinian terrorists were responsible for an explosion that occurred on Tuesday in the parking lot of a hospital in Gaza. Initial reports mistakenly stated that Israel had attacked the hospital. The New York Times reports that sources inside the intelligence community have provided them with satellite and infrared data indicating the firing of a rocket or missile from Palestinian fighting positions located within Gaza.
This material is consistent with their evaluation, which concludes that Israel was not to blame for the explosion at the hospital. The open-source information, video footage, and Hamas conversations that were intercepted all point to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist organization as the source of the event, which was triggered by a missile that was launched by the group. The Israel Defense Forces have revealed film taken by a drone which demonstrates that there was not an impact crater in the parking lot, which is something that would be anticipated to have been caused by an airstrike. The determination that Palestinian Islamic Jihad was responsible for the rocket fire from a cemetery behind the hospital is supported by communications that were intercepted by Hamas militants.