Live Update
From the Liveblog of
Wednesday, October 18, 2023
IDF releases drone footage showing that parking lot took most of blast damage, hospital fully standing

IDF footage of the Gaza City hospital whose parking lot it says was struck by a PIJ rocket, on October 18, 2023. (Screen capture/X)
The IDF releases drone footage of the Gaza City hospital this morning that shows very limited damage to the hospital itself and no crater in the parking lot that was hit. The lack of a crater indicates that the source of the blast was not an IDF strike.
IDF releases drone footage of the Gaza hospital from this morning, showing damage to parking lot where it says a misfiring Islamic Jihad rocket fell causing last night's mass casualties, but that lack of damage to hospital itself & no crater indicate it wasn't an IDF strike pic.twitter.com/V3wgGGgZ7o
— Jeremy Sharon (@jeremysharon) October 18, 2023