Early Wednesday morning Israeli Defense Forces released an audio recording that they believe is proof that the hospital in Gaza was hit by “Islamic Jihad” —not the IDF as Hamas reported.
From The New York Post:
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.
Listen to the clip below:
Islamic Jihad struck a Hospital in Gaza—the IDF did not.
Listen to the terrorists as they realize this themselves: pic.twitter.com/u7WyU8Rxwz
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) October 18, 2023
During a press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Biden echoed IDF reports, saying it looks like the hospital was bombed “by the other team.”
Watch the clip below:
"It appears the hospital explosion was done by the other team, not you (Israel), we have to overcome those don't see it," says U.S. President Joe Biden pic.twitter.com/xf71bss5IJ
— i24NEWS English (@i24NEWS_EN) October 18, 2023