WATCH: Israeli News Channel Caught a Gaza Rocket Launch and Hospital Explosion on Camera

 

Israel’s Channel 12, one of the country’s major broadcast news networks, caught on camera footage showing a rocket barrage launched from Gaza at Israel followed quickly by the explosion at the al-Ahli Hospital, where hundreds of civilians were reportedly killed in a bombing on Tuesday.

The center-left news outlet said one of its own cameras in Netivot, a southern Israeli city just east of Gaza, caught the footage.

The Times of Israel reported on Thursday, “With international media largely running with the Gazan claim that the hospital was bombed by Israel, and not by a failed Islamic Jihad rocket launch, the channel records segments with the video in Arabic and English for consumption outside of Israel.”

President Joe Biden agreed with Israeli intelligence assessments while in Tel Aviv Wednesday, saying that the Pentagon independently concluded Islamic Jihad was responsible for the hospital bombing.

Channel 12 broadcast the footage live on air and had a military analysis walk through the moment the rockets are launched and the hospital explodes frame by frame.

Anchor Yonit Levy spoke in English and said, “This is proof of Israel’s claims that it was actually missiles from the Gaza Strip shot in the direction of the Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City.”

“You see the time stamp on this. It’s 6:59 and this is when it happens. We can press play on the tape and you can see very clearly again, this is a Channel 12 camera,” Levy added.

Editor’s note: This article was corrected to note that the Channel 12 camera was located in Netivot, not Netiv Ha’asara. We regret the error and any confusion it may have caused.

Watch the full clip above via N12.

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