The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has completed its investigation into the attack on a hospital in the Gaza Strip and says the Islamic Jihad group is responsible for the attack, IDF spokesman Brigadier General Daniel Hagari said at a briefing.
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“The IDF has completed its post-mortem analysis and can confirm that Islamic Jihad was responsible for the attack on Al-Ahly Hospital in the Gaza Strip,” Hagari said.
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According to the IDF, as reports emerged of the hospital explosion, the Islamic Jihad group fired 10 rockets into Israel from a nearby cemetery.
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“According to our intelligence, Hamas checked the reports, realized it was an Islamic Jihad missile that had misfired, and decided to launch a global media campaign to cover up what really happened. They went so far as to inflate the number victims,” Khagari said.
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Al-Ahly Hospital in the Gaza Strip was attacked on October 17. Gaza’s health ministry said more than 500 people were killed, most of them women and children.
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The parties to the conflict blamed each other: in Palestine they said that the attack was carried out by Israeli planes, and in Israel they said that a rocket that was unsuccessfully launched by the Palestinian group Islamic Jihad hit the hospital.
