Assessing the damage at hospital in Israel after Iranian missile blast
published at 12:44
12:44
Jake Horton
BBC Verify


We’ve been assessing footage showing the aftermath of what the Israeli military says was an Iranian missile strike at a hospital in southern Israel this morning.

Israel says the Soroka site was directly hit - but Iranian state media has reported that authorities there say military infrastructure next to it was struck and the hospital was damaged “by the blast wave”.

We’ll be putting verified video and images of the aftermath to munitions experts and asking them to assess what happened.

Our team has verified a video of the site’s exterior that shows smoke rising from the roof which appears to have partially collapsed.

There are also images coming in from picture agencies and the BBC is deploying reporters to the scene who will be sending us more footage of the site.

Once we have expert analysis of what exactly the damage tells us about the strike we’ll bring it to you.