Several dozen people lost their lives in Tuesday’s explosion outside a hospital in Gaza City, not nearly 500 as claimed by Hamas, an Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman said today.
The clarification came after Israel and the US said initial evidence showed the blast was triggered by a rocket attack by Hamas, which the militant group blamed on Israel and inflated the death toll to stoke tensions in the war-torn region.
“The explosion at Al-Hali Hospital in Gaza was a human tragedy in which several dozen people were apparently killed,” Lior Haiat posted on X.
“This is also a Palestinian tragedy, where we see once again Palestinian terrorist organizations killing their own people, after they cynically use them as human shields,” Haiat said.
Foreign affairs officials continued to lash out at media outlets that followed the terrorist organization’s version of events, directly calling out the New York Times with a screenshot of its headline that said, “Israeli Strike Kills Hundreds in Hospital, Palestinians Say.”
The explosion at Al-Hali Hospital in Gaza was a human tragedy in which several dozen people were apparently killed.
This is also a Palestinian tragedy, where we see once again Palestinian terrorist organizations killing their own people, after they cynically use them as… pic.twitter.com/fnHj3xjeSB
— Lior Haiat ?? (@LiorHaiat) October 18, 2023
“Dozens of international media outlets, including prominent and important ones, abandoned basic journalistic ethics and published incorrect, misleading and false information originating from a campaign planned by the terrorist organization Hamas,” Haiat said.
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The claim of a drastically lower death toll at Al-Ahli Arab Hospital is consistent with government and independent analysis showing no structural damage to the facility or a large crater in its parking lot where the impact was centered.
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Blake Spendley, an open-source intelligence analyst at the Center for Naval Analysis, a Virginia think tank, told the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday that he estimated a more realistic death toll from the explosion to be about 50, rather than 500.
Blast at Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza kills “dozens,” not hundreds, Israel says.REUTERS
Gaza’s Ministry of Health, which is controlled by Hamas, said 471 people were killed in the explosion.
The hospital has only 80 beds but is well over capacity, filled with Palestinians injured in ongoing Israeli airstrikes and displaced people seeking shelter amid an ongoing humanitarian crisis.
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