The laws of physics prove Israel didn't bomb the hospital

The laws of physics and real-time mobile phone videos helped the Israeli defence force to prove its case that the explosion which led to hundreds of deaths at the hospital in Gaza was not caused by an airstrike launched from Israel. All the satellite and mobile phone images proved that the rocket responsible for the conflagration at the Al-Ahli al-Arabi hospital was ground-launched, not air-launched, according to Paul Beaver, a British defence analyst. “You can tell from the plume of smoke that’s clearly visible in the images that it has come from a ground-launched rocket,” he said. “The Israeli air force has been using precision-guided bombs, not dumb [unguided] bombs on Gaza and these weapons don’t generate a plume, and anyway the rocket was going the wrong way. The laws of physics are on the Israelis’ side,” he said. From the images, Beaver said, it was evident that the rocket had malfunctioned and the “unspent fuel” was what caused the explosion, not the impact of the rocket itself. The Israelis had the technical expertise to track the trajectory and coordinates of the malfunctioning rocket, he said, to make their case. “You also have to ask why the Israelis would attack a hospital just as President Biden was about to land in Israel, it makes no sense,” Beaver said. The US will also have been in a position to support Israel’s claim that it wasn’t responsible for the hospital strike. “The US has systems to identify every ignition launch of a missile or a powerful aircraft or a natural gas blow-off,” a former senior Pentagon official said. “Our intelligence thus has the data to confirm if there was a missile launch on a timeline that matches the explosion at the hospital seconds later,” he said. “Separately, Israel has a record of every aircraft mission and where bombs were released on that same timeline. These two data points can be quickly compared,” he said. "Israel would have had infra-red and optical observation over Gaza to make sure they know where every rocket is coming from in Gaza," Fabian Hinz, a missile expert at the International Institute for Strategic Studies said.