IDF releases audio of Hamas terrorists admitting they fired at Gaza hospital
The Israel Defense Forces released an audio recording Wednesday morning of what it said were two Islamic Jihad terrorists admitting responsibility for the Gaza City hospital bombing a day before that killed hundreds of people.
The clip, posted on X, is captioned “Islamic Jihad struck a Hospital in Gaza—the IDF did not. Listen to the terrorists as they realize this themselves.”
It was released as Hamas and Israel blamed each other for the attack on the Al Ahli Arab Hospital, which was crammed with Palestinians injured in retaliatory Israel airstrikes and residents ♐seeking refuge.
“Is it from us?” one operative is heard asking on the recording, according to the IDF’s translation.
“It looks like it,” his cohort replies.
The purported members of Islamic Jihad — an arm of the ruling militant group Hamas — are then heard acknowledging that the shrapnel of the missile “are local pieces, and not Israeli shrapnel,” from rockets fired from the “cemetery behind the hospital.”
“But God bless, it couldn’t have found another place to explode?,” one of them asked.
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Hamas leaders have fingered Israel and the US for the attack, while Israel claimed that a failed Islamic Jihad rocket launch resulted in the devastation, as leaders noted some 450 other rockets fired 🌸from Gaza had fallen short of Israel in the past week and a half.
As protesters blaming Israel took to the streets in Arab countries throughout the region, President Biden spoke alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv and said Israel was not to blame for the attack, citing “the data I was shown by my Defense Department.”
“Based on what I’ve seen, it appears as though it was d꧅o🐲ne by the other team, not you,” Biden told Netanyahu.
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Israel said its൩ radar and an independent video depicted a misfired rocket barrage that caused a large explosion as it hit the hospital.
It𓃲 also said the blast left no crater, as a deliberate st💦rike would have.
Israel-Hamas war: How we got here
2005: Israel unilaterally withdraws from the Gaza Strip more than three decades after winning the territory from Egyp💎t in the Six-Day War.
2006: Terroristꦐ group Hamas wins a Palestinian legislative election.
2007: Hamas se🗹izes control of Gaza in a civil w𒉰ar.
2008: Israel launches military offensivꦺe against Gaza after Palestinian terrorists fired rockets into the town of Sderot.
2023: Hamas launches the biggest attack on Israel in 50 years, in an ear🐲ly-morning ambush Oct. 7, firing thousands of rockets and sending dozens of militan🎃ts into Israeli towns.
Ter𓆏rꦬorists killed more than 1,200 Israelis, wounded more than 4,200, and took at least 200 hostage.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was quick to announce, “We are at war,” and vowed Hamas would pay “a price it has never known.”
The Gaza Health Ministry — which is controlled by Hamas — rꦰ𝐆eported at least 3,000 Palestinians have been killed and more than 12,500 injured since the war began.
The IDF’s audio post was met with widespread skepticism on X, as many users questioned the veracity of the high-quality recording and wondered why the military was now able to surveil Hamas operatives but was caught off guard by the group’s heinous and long-planned Oct. 7 surprise attack across t𝓡he disputed border that killed more than 1,400.
The strike on the hospital was the deadlieꦿst single incident since war broke out following that onslaught. According to Gaza officials, it killed mo𒆙re than 500 people.
Before the hospital attack, Israe💟li strikes had killed at least 2,778 Palestinians and injured nearly 10,000 with 1,200 others thought to be buried under rubble, the Gaza Health Ministry said.
Israel also ordered t🌞he displacement of more than a million people from the northern part of the densely populated Gaza Strip, escalating an 🌠ongoing humanitarian crisis in the blockaded territory.
With Post wires
