Last Updated: October 18, 2023, 07:21 IST
Rockets fired from the Gaza Strip in the direction of Israel, are seen from Ashkelon, southern Israel, Tuesday, Oct.17, 2023. (AP Photo)
Israeli military says Gaza hospital strike as a result of misfired rocket, sparking blame sport. Updates on Israel-Hamas battle
A lethal strike on a Gaza hospital compound on Tuesday, which well being officers mentioned killed not less than 500 folks, has provoked international outrage and condemnation. The Israeli military shortly issued a press release, stating that the assault on the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in central Gaza was a rocket misfired by Islamic Jihad Palestinian militants.
“The hospital was hit as a result of a failed rocket launched by the Islamic Jihad terrorist organization,” it mentioned in a press release. Meanwhile, Islamic Jihad, the Gaza-based militant group that claims to be preventing Israel alongside Hamas, described as “lies” the Israel military’s accusations that it was accountable for a strike on a Gaza hospital that left lots of lifeless.
Less than two weeks right into a struggle between Israel and Gaza-based Hamas militants who attacked southern Israel on October 7. According to the Israeli military, “intelligence from multiple sources we have… indicates that Islamic Jihad is responsible for the failed rocket launch which hit the hospital in Gaza.”
Spokesman Daniel Hagari instructed a press briefing that on the time of the strike, the Israeli military was not conducting air operations close to the hospital and the rockets that hit the constructing didn’t match theirs. He added that the military would additionally present conversations in Arabic that point out the strike was achieved by Islamic Jihad.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu charged in a press release that “it was barbaric terrorists in Gaza that attacked the hospital in Gaza, and not the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). “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,” Netanyahu wrote on X.
As the experiences in regards to the explosion emerged, IDF complained that “media outlets around the globe were quick to run Hamas’ headlines—without fact checking.” “We now know that an Islamic Jihad rocket aimed at Israel misfired and hit the hospital in Gaza,” IDF added.
Media retailers across the globe have been fast to run Hamas’ headlines—with out reality checking.We now know that an Islamic Jihad rocket aimed toward Israel misfired and hit the hospital in Gaza. pic.twitter.com/DzJgsbxS4i
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) October 17, 2023
Neither Islamic Jihad nor Israel has claimed the Palestinian group was concerned within the October 7 assault, beneath cowl of rocket hearth, in opposition to Israeli communities close to the Gaza border. Violence since then has killed greater than 1,400 folks in Israel, most of them civilians, and about 3,000 in Gaza, in keeping with official figures. After the Gaza hospital strike, US President Joe Biden’s wartime journey to Israel and Jordan faltered earlier than it received off the bottom Tuesday, after the Amman leg was canceled.
As Biden, 80, climbed the steps of Air Force One, Jordan introduced {that a} deliberate four-way summit with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas, Jordanian King Abdullah II and Egypt’s president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi was off. It could be held “when the decision to stop the war and put an end to these massacres has been taken,” mentioned Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi.
(With company inputs)
