President Joe Biden has said his comments that it “appears to be the other team” and not Israel that carried out the strike on a Gaza hospital was based on data from the US Defense Department.

“Based on what I’ve seen, it appears as though it was done by the other team, not you. But there’s a lot of people out there not sure, so we have to overcome a lot of things,” he said after arriving in Tel Aviv on Wednesday morning.

Mr Biden was asked by pool reporters what makes him sure that Israel wasn’t behind the explosion.

“The data I was shown by my defense department,” he responded.

Israel has blamed the Palestinian Islamic Jihad for the hospital attack. Meanwhile, the PIJ has denied involvement and Hamas has blamed Israel.

Using geolocated videos from Gaza and nearby areas in Israel last night, The Independent has put together a comprehensive explainer on everything we know about the hospital explosion in the northern region of the enclave, and who may be to blame.

US President Joe Biden has said that he believes the explosion was caused by the “other team”. Western leaders have called for an investigation.

The information available suggests that this explosion was not caused by an Israeli airstrike, pointing instead to a failed rocket launched from within Gaza, though the story remains fluid and further reports will be provided.

It does not constitute proof of the above suggestion. All information is linked within the copy.

The US president could be making his trip to mitigate the risks of a conflagration that could consume the whole region, involving Iran and maybe threatening the very survival of Israel itself, writes Mary Dejevsky:

A New York ER doctor has been fired for allegedly praising the massacre by Hamas militants on an Israeli music festival that left over 250 people dead, saying the victims were “getting a taste of their own medicine”:

Foreign nationals committing acts of antisemitism or other hate crimes in the UK should have their visas revoked, according to former home secretary Sajid Javid.

He told the Commons that British Jews have been subject to “vile abuse and hatred” in recent days, adding: “Antisemitism and all hate crimes fly in the face of British values and we should not allow events abroad … to be used to sow seeds of division in our own country.”

PM Rishi Sunak replied: “I completely agree with (Mr Javid), who himself has done so much over the years to fight antisemitism. The increase in incidents we’ve seen over the past week is utterly sickening and this government will do whatever it takes to keep our Jewish community safe.”

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that he had met with a lot of Israeli people since the start of the war with Hamas last week.

“I’ve heard their stories, I’ve heard about the lives lost and changed forever,” he said.

“We know that virtually every Israeli has been touched by the bloody hand of Hamas. But what I’ve found is a nation that’s united, yes in grief but also united in resolve.”

He added that while “we know the pride Israel takes in its ability to defend itself”, “we want to make clear you don’t have to do that”.

“We’re here to make sure you can defend yourself.”

President Joe Biden said his comment that the “other team”, not Israel, was responsible for the Gaza hospital blast was based on data shown to him by the US Department of Defense.