Gaza Hospital, the audio that reaches Hamas: “Our missile?”

Hundreds died at Al-Ahli Arabi Baptist Hospital in Gaza City, including many children. Hamas accuses Israel of bombing the health facility on the night of October 17. But Israel denies this, pointing the finger at the failed explosion of a rocket launched by Islamic Jihad and releasing aerial images, on X, that would show that there were no Israeli jets over the hospital facilities. Now, Israeli authorities have released an interception in which two Hamas terrorists can be heard talking to each other, revealing that the missile in the Gaza hospital is their property. “The explosion at Al-Ahli hospital in Gaza was caused by an Islamic Jihad rocket that had the wrong trajectory,” Israel Defense Forces spokesman Daniel Hagari said at a press conference. “Not a single IDF rocket has hit a hospital,” causing hundreds of deaths, he added.

Hagari played the recording obtained by Israeli intelligence of “communications between terrorists who speak of a wrong trajectory.” “This is the first time we have seen a missile fall like this. Is it ours?” we heard. This is the answer: “It seems so.” And again: “Some fragments of this missile are not Israeli.” It also says that the missile “was launched from the cemetery behind the hospital.” Hagari reiterates that the fact that “there was no structural damage and no crater proves that it was not an air strike that hit the parking lot” of the Baptista hospital in Gaza. Underlining how quickly Hamas blamed Israel for the attack, Hagari explained that “the IDF launched an immediate investigation based on intelligence data, aerial images, everything double-checked.”