An Israeli military spokesman said on Wednesday (October 18) that a failed Islamic Jihad rocket launch caused the bombing of a Gaza City hospital on Tuesday.
"I can confirm that an analysis of the IDF operational systems, indicates that a barrage of rockets was fired by terrorists in Gaza, passing in close proximity to the Ahli hospital in Gaza at the time it was hit. Intelligence from few sources that we have in our hands indicates that the Islamic Jihad is responsible for the failed rocket launch which hit the hospital in Gaza.
About 500 Palestinians were killed in a blast at a Gaza City hospital on Tuesday . Health authorities in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip said that an Israeli air strike caused the blast while Israel's military attributed it to a failed rocket launch by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant group. The blast was the bloodiest single incident in Gaza since Israel launched a bombing campaign to retaliate for an Oct. 7 Hamas assault on southern Israeli communities that killed 1,300 people. The strip is 45 km-long enclave and home to 2.3 million people.
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