Hundreds of people were reported killed in an explosion at the Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City on Tuesday evening, the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry reported, accusing Israel of striking the hospital.
Gaza hospital update: In a statement, the IDF says that "from an analysis of the IDF's operational systems, an enemy rocket barrage was carried out towards Israel, which passed in the vicinity of the hospital, when it was hit."
"According
to intelligence information, from several sources”, the PIJ organization is
responsible for the failed [rocket] fire that hit the hospital," the IDF
adds.
In
addition, the Israeli media quoting IDF sources stated, the explosion in Gaza
city was not caused by IDF strikes. A video allegedly from the scene showed
around dozen of bodies on grass. No evidence was provided to support the
outlandish allegations of thousands of killed.
According
to local Gaza sources: An impact at the Al Ahly Hospital, center Gaza City is
being checked by some reports as a premature rocket detonation from a nearby
launching site.
Reports
continue to surface that a misfired rocket detonated a stockpile of munitions
held on the hospital grounds. Also, there are no indication or reports of mass
casualties arriving at the other collection points at Dar Al Shifa, Rajour, the
Jordanian field hospital, or the Indonesian hospital in the northern
governorate from al ahly.
Rockets
fired by Hamas and other Palestinian factions often fall short and hit
buildings in Gaza, with dozens of deaths reported in such incidents in past
rounds of conflict. During Operation Breaking Dawn in August 2022, two people
were killed after a rocket fired from Gaza fell next to a clinic.
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