Two days after the air strike on Gaza’s Al Ahli Arab hospital, the Qatar-based news network Al Jazeera has disputed the Israeli army claim that the explosion at the hospital resulted from a failed rocket launch by the Islamic Jihad.

The Israel Defence Forces have used Al Jazeera’s live feed at the time of the attack as proof that one of the rockets fired from Gaza, as visible in the footage, was responsible for the damage to the hospital.

The broadcaster said its Sanad Agency for fact-checking and digital investigation had analysed the Israeli claims and other “time-coded footage from several sources”, including its own live broadcast.

“The investigation reveals that Israeli statements seem to have misinterpreted the evidence to build a story that one of the flashes recorded by several sources was a rocket misfire,” it added.

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