Israel aseguró tener pruebas de que la Yihad Islámica causó la explosión del hospital de Gaza / Israel military steps up denial it hit Gaza hospital

octubre 18, 2023 La Semana

El portavoz militar Daniel Hagari presentó pruebas en una conferencia de prensa que confirmarían que la explosión en el hospital fue producida por un cohete fallido lanzado por la Yihad Islámica.

Según Hagari, datos de inteligencia, imágenes aéreas y sistemas operativos apuntan a que no hubo ataque israelí por tierra, mar o aire.

Radares siguieron cohetes lanzados cerca del hospital, sugiriendo que la Yihad Islámica disparó desde las cercanías.

Esto contradice acusaciones de Hamas, quien gobierna Gaza y responsabilizó a Israel de la explosión que habría matado a más de 200.

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**OMS ya ha condenado el ataque contra el hospital gazatí. | Fuente: AFP | Fotógrafo: DAWOOD NEMER**

Israel military steps up denial it hit Gaza hospital

JERUSALEM, Israel’s military published on Wednesday what it described as evidence that a misfired Palestinian rocket, rather than one of its own munitions, caused an overnight explosion at a Gaza hospital in which hundreds of people died.

Hamas, the Palestinian militant group that controls Gaza, has blamed the blast on Israel. Israel says it was a result of a failed rocket launch by Palestinian Islamic Jihad, another militant group in the enclave.

In an English-language briefing televised shortly before U.S. President Joe Biden landed in Israel for a solidarity visit, chief military spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said an investigation had “confirmed that there was no IDF (Israel Defence Forces) fire from the land, sea or air that hit the hospital”.

He said there was no structural damage to buildings around the Al-Ahli al-Arabi hospital and no craters consistent with an air strike.

Asked to explain the size of the explosion at the site, Hagari said it was consistent with unspent rocket fuel catching fire. “Most of this damage would have been done due to the propellant, not just the warhead,” he said.

Hagari also accused Hamas of inflating the number of casualties from the explosion and said it could not know as quickly as it claimed what had caused the blast.

The death toll from the hospital explosion was by far the highest of any single incident in Gaza during the current violence, triggering protests in the occupied West Bank and in the wider region, including in Jordan and Turkey.

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