United States State Department spokesman Matthew Miller believes that an international investigation into the circumstances of the strike on Al-Ahli Hospital in the Gaza Strip is inappropriate.
“I don’t think it’s appropriate at this time,” Matthew Miller said at a regular briefing for reporters, when asked whether Washington supports the idea of an international probe into the circumstances of what happened at Al-Ahli hospital.
Miller said Israeli authorities have provided “a great deal of evidence” to support their position.
“The U.S. government is conducting its own assessment,” the State Department spokesman said.
Miller added that it was “unfortunate that a lot of people believe the claims” of Palestinian radicals even though “they have not provided any evidence.”
“We’re still gathering information, but based on our preliminary assessments, the assessments of the intelligence community in the U.S. government, the hospital explosion was the result of a failed rocket launch by militants in Gaza,” Miller explained.
When asked if the US was certain that the hospital was not struck by Israel, the State Department spokesman emphasised that these were “preliminary assessments based on available information”.
We shall remind you that earlier the Human Rights Watch (HRW) human rights organisation reported that the Israeli army had used white phosphorus munitions prohibited by international conventions in strikes on facilities in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip.