ISRAELI OFFICIALS DELETE VIDEO ON POSTS CLAIMING PALESTINIANS RESPONSIBLE FOR HOSPITAL STRIKE

Tue 17 October 2023:

Social media accounts belonging to the State of Israel and the Israeli ambassador to the US both appear to have deleted a video on posts claiming that a rocket fired from within Gaza caused the deadly explosion at al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City.

The video showed a barrage of rockets being fired, with one appearing to go off-course in a downwards trajectory, followed by the flash of an apparent explosion.

This tweet was just edited to remove video @Israel presented as evidence that Gaza hospital was struck in an outgoing barrage fired by militants — likely because NYT reporter @AricToler had already noted the clip was recorded about 8pm local time, 40 minutes after hospital strike https://t.co/qBxJnKgvEd

— Robert Mackey (@RobertMackey) October 17, 2023

Both accounts edited their posts after Aric Toler, a journalist with the New York Times visual investigations team, questioned the time-stamps on the video.

Those timestamps indicated that the video was recorded at least 40 minutes after the explosion at the hospital was first publicly reported, Toler said.

It was not clear if the video was removed from the Israeli accounts on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, as a result of Toler’s analysis.

Both Israeli accounts kept the original text in their posts following the edit, which repeated the Israeli military’s previous statement that the strike on the hospital was the result of an off-course rocket launched by the Islamic Jihad group.

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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