Israel is claiming the explosion was caused by a misfire by a Hamas-fired rocket.

I suspect the skies over the area are absolutely blanketed with radar systems. While I well recognize the need to keep operational capabilities classified, it seems like there should be a way of showing the trajectory of the purported missile to show evidence of their claim. I know we do this with satellite and photo reconnaissance by making the pictures more blurry to hide the actual resolution of the system. We do the same with things like location data, where we reduce the number of significant figures to blur the data.

Radar detection of weapons like rockets is fairly sophisticated, because it’s used both for missile defense and for counter-battery fire. I know that things like buildings obviously clutter images of low flying objects, but from the footage I’ve seen the rockets are generally flying well above that level.

Also, given they’re fighting in such a small area against an unsophisticated force, I’m really surprised there isn’t 24/7 drone video footage that they could point to.

While I understand the need for secrecy, Israel is quickly losing the information war, so it’s baffling me as to why they’re not making stronger attempts to justify their claims if they are indeed innocent.

Of it was an Israeli misfire or mistargeting, they should admit it and say what steps they’re taking to start using more caution. If the building was occupied and being used by Hamas forces and so was deliberately targeted, they should say that.