The Israel-Hamas war continues to escalate and draw global reactions condemning both sides. However, on Tuesday, Gaza Health Ministry said that a significant number of individuals (at least 500) lost their lives in an explosion at the Al Ahli Arab hospital blast. Gaza accused Israel of dropping missiles on Al Ahli Arab hospital that killed at least 500 including women and children. However, Israel totally refuted the claims saying that the Al Ahli Arab hospital blast was the result of Hamas using a faulty missile to target Tel Aviv but it was dropped on the Gaza hospital.
While Pro-Palestine people are slamming Israel for committing war crimes, the country released audio of Hamas operatives talking about the Gaza hospital blast and apparently accepting their role in it. As per the leaked Hamas audio call, the first Hamas operative says, "I'm telling you this is the first time that we see sound like this falling and so that's why we are saying it belongs to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. They are saying it's from us (Hamas)"
The another Hamas operative questions, "What they are saying, it's from us?" Then the first person says, "They are saying the shrapnel from the missile is local shrapnel and not like Israeli shrapnel. But God bless, it couldn't have been found another place to explode."
It is pertinent to mention here that the Israeli Defence Forces shared the leaked Hamas call audio saying that they intercepted their call and since Tel Aviv has been accused of committing war crimes it is releasing the audio.
Spokesperson of Israel Defence Forces (IDF), RAdm. Daniel Hagari addressed a press conference on Wednesday and released an audio that claimed to be a conversation between two Hamas terrorists who admitted that the rocket fired on the Hospital belonged to their group.
"Trajectory analysis from the Barrage of Rockets confirms that the rockets were fired close proximity to the hospital. In addition, there are two independent videos which show the failure of the rocket launch and the continuation of rocket flight towards the ground within the Gaza stream falling in the hospital compound," said Daniel Hagari.
He added, "Third, we have intelligence that will be shared here of communication between terrorists talking about rockets misfiring. The terrorists realised that the rocket had misfired and made specific reference to the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital. I would want to let everybody hear the conversation, I will do the translation in English."
It is pertinent to mention here that Israel's PM Benjamin Netanyahu slammed Palestinian militants for the explosion, saying , "The entire world should know. It was barbaric terrorists in Gaza that attacked the hospital in Gaza and not the IDF....Those who brutally murdered our children also murder their own children."
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