A blast at a Gaza hospital that reportedly killed hundreds of people was caused by a rocket misfired by a Palestinian terror group, the Israeli military said.
The Israeli military said that a massive blast that reportedly killed hundreds at a Gaza City hospital on Tuesday was not caused by an Israeli air strike, as the Hamas terror group alleged, but by a rocket misfired by another terrorist organization affiliated with Hamas.
The Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry said that at least 500 people were killed in an explosion at the al-Ahli hospital and blamed an Israeli air strike for the carnage, calling it a “horrific massacre.”
Israeli forces blamed Islamic Jihad, a smaller and even more radical Palestinian organization than the Hamas terror group that shares many of Hamas’s aims and attitudes, including holding a vehemently anti-Israel stance.
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Wounded Palestinians sit in al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, after arriving from al-Ahli hospital following an explosion there, on Oct. 17, 2023. (Abed Khaled/AP Photo)
What Happened? At around 7 p.m. local time, an explosion rocked the al-Ahli hospital in Gaza City.
The hospital is located in the central Gaza Strip, where Israel has been carrying out what it says are precision strikes targeting