BBC has issued a statement clarifying its initial coverage which was seen by many as blaming Israel for an explosion in a Gaza hospital earlier this week. In a statement, the channel wrote, "We have reviewed our coverage of the immediate aftermath of an explosion at the Al-Ahli Arab hospital in Gaza City on Tuesday night." "During this our correspondent was giving instant analysis on the ground from Jerusalem in what was a confusing and difficult story. The programme repeatedly made it clear that it had yet to verify who was behind the blast, including in the questioning by the presenter. "The correspondent said that the Israelis had been contacted and were investigating, adding, 'It’s hard to see what else this could be really given the size of the explosion other than an Israeli air strike or several air strikes.' "He then explained that in his experience as a reporter in Gaza that he had never seen explosions of this scale caused by rockets being fired out of the territory. He again stressed that the pictures had yet to be verified. Related articles: Examine if BBC received money from Hamas BBC series lead found to be son of Hamas official Ex-BBC dir. warns network risks becoming 'Hamas mouthpiece' 'Hostages were starving and badly bruised' "We accept that even in this fast-moving situation it was wrong to speculate in this way, although he did not at any point report that it was an Israeli strike. This doesn’t represent the entirety of the BBC ’s output and anyone watching, listening to or reading our coverage can see we have set out both sides’ competing claims about the explosion, clearly showing who is saying them, and what we do or don’t know." On Thursday , Israeli President Isaac Herzog spoke with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, urging him to ensure that BBC 's reporting of the Israel-Hamas war is accurate. "I want to raise the issue of what I call objective or not objective reporting about this tragedy because we feel that – and I've made it public – the way the BBC characterized Hamas, this is distortion of the facts," Herzog said. "We are dealing with one of the worst terrorists organizations in the world. And I know that in modern democracies, such as ours and yours, you cannot intervene per se but because the BBC has a certain linkage and a is known as British all over the world, there has to be an outcry so that there will be a correction and Hamas would be the described as a terrorist organization. What else do they need to see to understand that this is an atrocious terrorist organization?"