On the night of the 17th (local time), Israel and the Palestinian armed group Hamas engaged in a battle over who was responsible for the attack following the airstrike on a hospital in Gaza City, northern Gaza Strip, which killed hundreds of people. Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, claimed it was an Israeli airstrike, while the Israeli military claimed it was a mistaken attack by Islamic Jihad (PIJ), another Palestinian armed group that cooperates with Hamas.
On the 18th, Hamas claimed that at least 500 civilians, including patients, children, and women at a Gaza City hospital, were killed in an Israeli airstrike. The Palestinian Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip said hundreds of people were trapped under the rubble of the building.
On the other hand, the Israeli military refuted that day, saying, “One of the dozens of rockets that PIJ fired from the Gaza Strip toward Israel fell into the hospital parking lot due to an accidental explosion,” and released a video of the hospital scene filmed by a drone on social media X (formerly Twitter). did. He then claimed, “Usually our airstrikes leave huge puddles on the floor of the explosion site, but there are none at this hospital site.”
Palestinian children injured in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City, Gaza Strip, arrive at Al Shifa Hospital with the help of adults on the 17th (local time). 2023.10.18 Gaza City = AP/NewsisIsraeli military spokesman Daniel Hagari then posted a wiretapping recording of intercepted information on his “I knew very clearly,” he said. The New York Times (NYT) reported on the 17th that in the past, rockets launched by Palestinian armed groups such as PIJ had a history of deviating from orbit and attacking civilian facilities.
On the 17th (local time), Palestinian residents are searching for survivors in the rubble of a building destroyed by an Israeli airstrike at the Rafah refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. 2023.10.18. Gaza Strip = AP/NewsisHowever, Palestinian Deputy Health Minister Youssef Abu Alishi claimed in an interview with Qatar’s official Al Jazeera broadcast on the 18th, “On the 14th, the Israeli army shelled the same hospital, and the next day, I directly called the hospital director and told him to evacuate immediately because he had warned him with two shells.”
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