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Clues that the Arab Hospital Strike Came from Gaza
(Telegraph-UK) Joe Barnes - Footage taken of rockets fired east from Gaza in the direction of Israel on Tuesday show one appearing to burst into flames mid-flight. Weapons experts say video clips seem to show a missile failure, which may have led to parts of it falling out of the sky. The Gaza hospital that was struck is located between the apparent rocket launch area and the Israeli border. Fabian Hoffman, a missile technology expert from the University of Oslo, said a "rocket experiencing some type of systematic error causing it to fall on the hospital" was the "most plausible explanation so far." Justin Bronk, a leading air power expert at the UK's Royal United Services Institute, believes that the explosion on the ground appeared to be a fireball, likely caused by part of the rocked holding the fuel exploding on impact. Nathan Ruser, a researcher at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, wrote on Twitter: "The photos of the scene are, to me, not consistent with an airstrike and are not consistent with claims that 500-plus people were killed." There also appeared to be very minimal damage to the nearby hospital building, which is around 20 meters from the impact site. The typical "kill zone" blast radius of Israeli JDAM missiles is 33.5 meters, while the estimated blast radius of the explosion at the hospital is 10 meters.