Satellite images, security cameras and even captured by mobile phones. Are crucial clues that researchers have at their disposal to clarify the mystery of who committed the attack on the hospital from Gaza that this week killed hundreds of civilians Palestinians. But how can they use them?

Yago Rodríguez, director of ‘The Political Room’, explains that “by doing a cyber forensic analysis” or “analyzing the luminosity of the hours of the day that the video credits.” He further suggests “evaluate the different types of trajectories and geolocate the explosions“. For Pablo del Amo, coordinator of ‘Deciphering War’, “the most important thing was photos from the next day in the morning”, which “were able to see that the parking area, above all, was the most damaged” and “it was also possible to see that there is a small crater.”

And the proliferation of numerous images on social networks also confuses experts, who now have a hard job ahead of them. “Anybody knows what happened. In a war the first victim is the truth“, Jorge Dezcallar, former director of the CNI, has stated in this sense.

Analysts agree that conclusions cannot be drawn without having evidence to verify who did what: “Unfortunately, it does not matter who the author was because, for example, the Arab world has already passed judgment, they have blamed Israel,” Del Amo points out.

“If we’re talking about an investigation that you want to take to court, You will surely need months, if not years“, warns Rodríguez, who adds that, on the other hand, “if there was access to the scene, a cordon off,” it would be “relatively simple” and “it could surely take a few days.”

However, Alberto Fierro, a jurist and political scientist specialized in International Law, emphasizes that “the evidence is not only obtained on the ground”, but “the Individuals or civil society organizations can document both international crimes, such as war crimes or human rights violations, so that these documents serve as evidence in criminal proceedings.

Access to the explosion site, for now, is practically impossible with the Israel blockadebut it could help clarify the authorship of the most lethal attack in what we have been war between Israel and Hamas.