Posted on 10/17/23
| News Source: Arutz-7
The IDF announced that the initial investigation into the explosion at the Ahli Baptist Hospital in central Gaza where Hamas claims as many as 500 people were killed was caused by a Hamas rocket that was misfired and struck the hospital and not by an Israeli airstrike.
The IDF statement says that “an analysis of IDF operational systems indicates that a barrage of rockets was fired by terrorists in Gaza, passing in close proximity to the Al Ahli hospital in Gaza at the time it was hit."
"Intelligence from multiple sources we have in our hands indicates that Islamic Jihad is responsible for the failed rocket launch which hit the hospital in Gaza," the statement added.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu commented on the explosion at the hospital in Gaza and wrote, " "The entire world should know: It was barbaric terrorists in Gaza that attacked the hospital in Gaza, and not the IDF."
"Those who brutally murdered our children also murder their own children."
Minister Benny Gantz wrote, "The missiles of The Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) murdered this evening innocent Palestinians in a hospital in Gaza. The elimination of terror organizations Hamas and the PIJ is a moral necessity for Israelis, for Palestinians and for the whole world."