There was very little information that suggests Israel was behind a devastating strike on a hospital in Gaza which left hundreds of people dead.
That's according to Malcolm Davis, a senior analyst in defence strategy and capability at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, who said it wasn't in Israel's interests to score an "own goal".
"The vast majority of information that is currently out there that is from credible sources is suggesting that this was a rocket that was launched from Gaza and crashed onto the hospital and exploded," Dr Davis told News Channel's Ros Childs.
"Israelis are not going to make a horrendous mistake like attacking a hospital for the civilians right at the point when it's in their strategic interest to ensure as much of backing as possible.
"You can see the consequences of this action if the Israelis had done this, it would have been an incredible own goal of sorts to essentially kill large numbers of civilians deliberately — the Israelis don't do that."
Civilians that were killed in airstrikes was down to Hamas refusing to let them withdraw, he said.
Technologies such as airborne surveillance can detect and track missiles and rocket scan hit the wrong target.
"Mistakes are made and I think that this is clearly one of those," Dr Davis said.
"I think that if you look at what Hamas and also what Hezbollah developing and capable of using in terms of the rocket technology, they have large numbers of rockets … I'm not sure how sophisticated the rockets are but if this was one of theirs, it suggests that either it was a faulty rocket or that they made an error when they launched it."
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