Gaza Hospital Explosion – IDF Says Islamic Jihad Misfired Rocket At Fault (Updated)
“According to intelligence information, from several sources we have, the Islamic Jihad terrorist organization is responsible for the failed shooting that hit the hospital.”
A missile destroyed a hospital in Gaza City. Hamas, a terrorist group that wants to rid the world of Jews, blames Israel.
Hamas managed to count all the dead bodies right away.
Rashida Tlaib believes the terrorist group. A screenshot just in case she deletes this.
The left and media have eaten up the story as soon as it broke, immediately repeating the Hamas talking point that Israel struck the hospital.
Except…more and more reports indicate it happened due to a misfired missile by…Hamas. The hospital exploded because Hamas stored munitions in the hospital, which is a war crime.
People also questioned how Hamas counted all the dead within minutes and had cameras on the ground right away.
IDF statement to Fox: “A hospital is a highly sensitive building and is not an IDF target. The IDF is investigating the source of the explosion and, like always, is prioritizing accuracy and reliability.”
— Trey Yingst (@TreyYingst) October 17, 2023
🔴BREAKING: Initial investigation by IDF shows explosion in hospital in Gaza was caused by a failed Hamas rocket launch
— i24NEWS English (@i24NEWS_EN) October 17, 2023
Even anti-Israel sources in Gaza are reporting that the explosion at Al-Ahly hospital was likely a misfired rocket. An explosion of that magnitude means it likely hit an ammo dump. Rockets don't kill hundreds. It appears to be just another instance of Hamas killing its own. pic.twitter.com/xvHQTsATMw
— Shaiel Ben-Ephraim (@academic_la) October 17, 2023
Within 12 minutes, the death toll went from 200-500, in the dark, while the fires are still burning.
Do I really need to explain how impossible it is for that number to not be completely made up? https://t.co/RvU33SX2x0
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) October 17, 2023
Dear world,
This was likely a Hamas rocket that didn’t detonate properly. Hamas stores its weapons in hospitals, schools, and mosques. This man is dishonest because he’d rather perpetuate the use of human shields to “get back at Israel” than admit Hamas to be colossal savages… https://t.co/QvuCaafRK7
— Erielle Davidson (@politicalelle) October 17, 2023
To all journalists covering the reported explosion and tragic mass casualty event at Gaza's Ahli Arab Hospital, please note:
1. In previous Gaza wars some of the deadliest blasts were caused by Hamas rockets falling short and landing in Gaza. This is well documented.
2. In…
— Dovid Efune (@Efune) October 17, 2023
UPDATE
The Spokesman for the Israeli Defense Force, Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari has announced that they have Intelligence which Confirms that the Explosion and subsequent Fire earlier tonight at Al-Ahli Arabi Baptist Hospital in Northern Gaza, which is reported to have Killed over 500… pic.twitter.com/sArx4CY2NB
— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) October 17, 2023
Breaking: IDF Spokesperson
From the analysis of the operational systems of the IDF, an enemy rocket barrage was carried out towards Israel, which passed through the vicinity of the hospital when it was hit.
According to intelligence information, from several sources we have,… pic.twitter.com/hdQra9QZAm
— Israel ישראל 🇮🇱 (@Israel) October 17, 2023
.@IDF's @JConricus: "The bottom line is that, according to our intelligence analysis and the various systems that we have of air control, et cetera, indicate that this was a failed launch and not in general, but specifically by Islamic Jihad."@Boris_Sanchez: "And Jonathan,… pic.twitter.com/dta6S9aUPG
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) October 17, 2023
Surveillance camera footage from Netiv Haasara shows a large barrage of rockets being launched from northern Gaza, followed by a massive blast in the Strip, apparently caused by a failed projectile. pic.twitter.com/PdNCbks02r
— Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) October 17, 2023
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An explosion in a hospital is pretty obviously due to a hamas “work accident”, either a misfired rocket, a bomb blowing up on assembly, or some other problem with their weapons and explosives. This is clearly an own goal by the palis.
BTW, there are no such things as “war crimes”. I really wish that serious people would stop talking about them. The idea is, itself, a complete joke. Hamas are barbarians and savages. Fine. But Israel would be justified in using any tactics it needs to in order to win the war whether hamas was only attacking the Israeli military or not. War is not a moral issue; it’s an existential one. The idea that war is just a game played between militaries is one of the most ridiculous ideas anyone could have ever dreamed up – it is completely divorced from reality and all of human history … all of history, period.
Orly?! Tell that to all the people who’ve been hanged for them. Including but by no means limited to the Nuremberg Ten.
The terrorists have been known to use Hospotails as shields before.
The report said that the explosion was way too large for just a rocket warhead. It was most likely stored weapons and ammo by Hamas that was destroyed.
Watched a video of it. Some guy just happened to be filming the hospital through a fence in the dark when it happened. Strange, that
Which means the hospital was a legitimate military target that the IDF should have bombed. Shame on it for needing PIJ to do its job for it.
Or a purposeful explosion from a couple of truck bombs.
If the Savages didn’t use and schools to store ammunition then store ammunition then this sort of thing wouldn’t happen
That was supposed to read hospitals and schools, but my phone is a piece of crap
It’s time for Israel to launch their gound invasion before any more innocent people get killed from Hamas rocket failures.
Buyer beware!
Some news outlets report the airstrike as fact, but is it? The Gaza Health Ministry is sure a most credible source. Surely, Hamas would never misfire a rocket or store munitions next to hospitals.
People that be-head babies for sport are not above spreading disinformation. When was the last time the Palestinians engaged in Pallywood? https://honestreporting.com/tag/pallywood/
Any death and destruction lies at the feet of Hamas.
Likely that the rockets weren’t stored there, but rather launched from nearby, the proximity of the hospital intended to discourage air strikes or artillery on the launch site (which today can be spotted by drones and reported in real time, making the setup and firing of large rockets a very dicey proposal).
Maybe this incident will keep Joe Biden away.
We couldn’t get so lucky, that pedophile is bound to determined to embarrass us in front of the world
Islamic Jihad misfire, apparently. But the haters will not care.
To the shock of no one, that imbecile and Muslim terrorist sympathizer, Tlaib, accepts a report from Hamas at face value and immediately responds. What a wretched woman she is.
She and those like her are desperate.
Israel Raid Kills 500
Hospital strike: Thousands are rallying in Ramallah after the Israeli air strike on al-Ahli hospital
(al Jazeera English)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEnM20Y5nYs
This burning down your own neighborhood stuff seems to be standard for leftist protests.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCbrzHVxWL8
Gaza Health Ministry: More than 500 in Israeli Air Strike on Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza
They’re making it sound really heartless cruel. I wonder what will happen when it turns out to be Hamas not Israel.
It might be a cognitive dissonance thing. Al Jazeera does appear to try to be truthful at least in the English version.
You don’t give him enough credit, they lie in all languages
“I wonder what will happen when it turns out to be Hamas not Israel.”
That’s easy – They’ll blame Israel. In Islam, Muslim attacks on non-believers are supposed to be accepted with humility and submissiveness. Self-defense by non-believers against Muslim attacks are considered acts of aggression.
Never let a dead Gazan go to waste. – Hamas Propagandist’s Code
Another Palestinian day of rage tomorrow. How nice. Should be raging at themselves and their leaders, who too many support.
Non-Hamas Arabs in the Gaza strip should be hunting down and murdering all Hamas. Terminate them with prejudice and string them up in the streets like the Italians did with “Il Duce”! Prove to the rest of the world that you don’t support the horrors committed in your name.
I may get a little in myself
Surely they wouldn’t declare a Day of Rage for just themselves… would they?
“This will put more pressure on Israel to stop”. Why, Hamas blew it up not Israel
It was bound to happen. They’ve got too many people with only a basic knowledge of the explosives they’re handling because it’s a waste of time trying to educate somebody who’s just going to blow himself up anyway.
Knowledge of explosives? Their ineptitude is way more basic.
Did this hospital happen to be on Daylight Savings Time?
Because that’s been known to trigger Palestinian explosions.
LOL.
That’s the only example where changing the clocks has ever had any sort of benefit.
The exact same jackasses that were screaming NOT EVERY ONE OF THE 40 BABIES WAS BEHEADED YOU’RE A LIAR, are unquestionably screaming 500 PALESTINIANS DEAD BECAUSE OF ISRAEL within minutes of this happening.
It’s almost like they’ll accept any lie as long as it makes Israel look bad.
An Islamic Jihadi rocket fell on the hospital, but the knee jerk reaction is to blame Israel. But even if it was an Israeli rocket—which it wasn’t—-according to the rule they were following last week, they should blame the Palestinians and show support for Israel. Oh, wait, you mean, the rules have changed?
Wait, this was a “Christian/Baptist Hospital. Who is more likely to attack a “Christian” hospital, Hamas or Israel?
Ilhan Omar” “”Bombing a hospital is among the gravest of war crimes.” Of course, she only means when Israel does it.
Bombing a hospital — if it happened, by accident — is nothing compared to slaughtering infants in front of their parents, kidnapping, torturing and r*ping innocents, and gunning down people at a music festival dedicated to your very cause.
Yet she seems to have no problem with the fact that the terrorists love to use the everybody in those hospitals as a human shield by Munitions beneath them. If I am not mistaken Hamas has its main headquarters underneath a hospital.
Outrage at eleventy ? Check
Immediate causing count? Check
Ignore long-standing restraint on RoE by Israel? Check
Fail to mention Hamas history of collocation munitions storage/launch sites with schools and hospitals? Check
Usual suspects and useful idiots rush to condemn Israel without waiting for facts, evidence and analysis? Check
Eff this propaganda. It’s a tool used to try and deter the upcoming ass kicking for Hamas that they so richly earned by choosing to deliberately kidnap and massacre Israelis who were minding their business. Eff these clowns and anyone stupid enough to rush to judgement.
Remember-Hamas does not care about life, only increasing the death count caused by Hamas and its allies
No! You mean a hospital that Hamas had an HQ under and stored ammunition, rockets and other explosy stuff in blew up “mysterious like? I’m stunned
I want justice for Gaza. I’m just undecided whether they should get thermobaric justice or thermonuclear justice.
I’m guessing the Israelis don’t want the nuclear fallout hard on their border
“Even anti-Israel sources in Gaza are reporting that the explosion at Al-Ahly hospital was likely a misfired rocket. An explosion of that magnitude means it likely hit an ammo dump. Rockets don’t kill hundreds.”
Rockets can kill hundreds, depending on the target. A German V2 rocket, fired on the first day of the Ardennes Offensive (aka, the Battle of the Bulge), struck a movie theater in Antwerp and killed 567 people.
Also, a missile only seconds into its flight has, in addition to its warhead payload, much of its fuel remaining, which can contribute to the blast. Watch any launch pad explosion film from the early days of space exploration to see blasts from the fuel exclusively, as the rockets in question had no warheads at all. (And neither did the Challenger.)
I think those rockets are orders of magnitude larger than the Hamas terrorist rockets.
Although true, my point stands. The V2 had a one-ton warhead, but it rarely killed more than a couple of dozen people. The nature of the target has as much to do with the casualty count as the power of the rocket.
Hospitals (esp. in such a location) may have stores of gasoline, diesel, and/or natural gas for generators and heating. So it’s also possible that stores of such fuels contributed to the blast.
I think it very unlikely that a wayward Hamas rocket would just happen to hit a site at which other munitions were stored. Possible (considering it was a hospital, and Hamas is known to use hospitals for military purposes), but that would be quite a coincidence.
Hamas rocket attack starts at 19:59:50 (clock upper left).
Was this rocket part of that attack?
Al Jazeera live video of rocket malfunctioning and impacting ground.
Israel releases audio of a conversation between Hamas operatives regarding the Gaza Hospital
So…what is the chances that a lot, if not all of the deaths, were hostages?
Wouldn’t put it past Hamas to kill them off.
War is Hell. Oh well.