The Israeli government denies that it is the author of the attack on Al Ahly Baptist Hospital in the Gaza Strip It would have killed at least 500 people, according to Doctors Without Borders and the UN.

The victims include dozens of patients and refugee families, including hundreds of women and children.

Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday accused “barbaric terrorists of Gaza” of an attack on a hospital in the Gaza Strip that killed at least 500 Palestinians on Tuesday.

“Let the whole world know: the barbaric terrorists of Gaza are the only ones who attacked a hospital in Gaza, not the army,” the prime minister said in a statement.

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Meanwhile, the representative The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) blamed Palestinian Islamic Jihad. to be the culprits of the tragedy after the failure of an attempt to attack Israeli territory.

The Gaza hospital explosion was caused by a failed rocket launch by the Palestinian Islamic Gihad (sic).

“A failed rocket launch by the Palestinian Islamic Gihad (sic) resulted in the deaths of 200 to 300 people at Al-Ahly Baptist Hospital in Gaza City today. An Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesman said that, according to several intelligence sources, the missile was launched by the Islamic Gihad (sic), reports c.statement from the Israeli Embassy in Mexico.

Balance of the crime

This is aboutattack with the highest death toll to dateOn October 7, war broke out between Palestinian Gaza militias and Israel, killing more than 3,000 people in the Gaza Strip and 1,400 inside Israel.

According to local sources, several people were in the sanatorium, a Christian institution. 2000 people fleeing the explosionsAfter evacuating their homes in recent days, this is the dynamic seen at most hospitals on the Strip.

“The horrific massacre carried out by the Zionist occupation” at the hospital, “which claimed hundreds of victims, is a crime of genocide,” Hamas said in a statement.

He said most of the dead and wounded were “displaced families, patients, children and women” who had taken refuge there in recent days.

(According to EFE)

🔴We are horrified by the recent Israeli bombing of the Ahli Arab hospital in Gaza City, where patients were treated and displaced persons from Gaza were housed.

Hundreds of people are reported to have died.

🚨This is a massacre. This is completely unacceptable. pic.twitter.com/Xv8I6gRQr0

— Doctors Without Borders, Mexico (@MSF_Mexico) October 17, 2023