Netanyahu blames "barbaric Gaza terrorists" for hospital attack

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blamed the “barbaric terrorists from Gaza” on Tuesday for the attack on a hospital in the Strip in which at least 500 Palestinians died this Tuesday.. “Let the whole world know: the barbaric terrorists of Gaza are the only ones who attacked the hospital in Gaza, not the Army,” the prime minister said in a statement.

Thus, Prime Minister Netanyahu recalled the brutal Hamas offensive on October 7 against southern Israel, where they killed hundreds of people, and pointed out that those responsible for that event are also the authors of the bombing. about the Gaza hospital. “Those who brutally murdered our children also murder their children,” the Israeli president stressed.

In this sense, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) assured this Tuesday that the explosion at the Al Ahli hospital was caused by a failed missile launched by Islamic Jihad, a terrorist organization that supported the Hamas offensive against Israel in the past. October 7. “According to the analysis of the IDF operational systems, a barrage of enemy rockets was launched towards Israel, which passed through the vicinity of the hospital, when it was hit,” the Israeli Army reported in a statement in which it ensures that “several “Intelligence sources” attribute the authorship to Islamic Jihad.

The authorities of the Gaza Strip, controlled by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), have reported hours before the death of at least 500 people after an Israeli attack on the aforementioned Al Ahli hospital.. The WHO has reported that the center was still operational and wounded, health personnel and internally displaced people were taking refuge there.

On October 7, Hamas launched an attack by air and land against Israel that left at least 1,400 dead and took the opportunity to take some 200 people hostage.. Islamic Jihad supported the offensive of the Palestinian militia. Israel shortly later announced an operation in response to what happened.