Israel Produces Evidence Hospital Blast Was Caused By Misfied Islamic Jihad Rocket

The Israel Defense Forces on Wednesday produced a 30-second video it says shows the deadly hospital blast in Gaza City could not have been the result of an Israeli airstrike.

Palestinian officials have blamed Israel for the bombing that is believed to have killed hundreds of people while Israeli officials say a rocket fired by Islamic Jihad caused the blast.

Using images showing fire damage to several vehicles in the hospital parking lot, the montage presented by the IDF suggests that a fire broke out at the hospital as the result of a failed rocket launch by the Islamic Jihad group. The IDF added that there were no visible signs of craters or significant damage to buildings that would result from an airstrike.

The “first packet of information” was “evidence that clearly supports the fact that it could not have been an Israeli bomb,” IDF spokesperson Jonathan Conricus told CNN on Wednesday.

“There was no collateral or significant damage to the buildings around it. No crater, and nothing that is similar to locations where Israeli bombs have struck,” Conricus said.

Conricus said the IDF was slow to release information because it took hours for the Israeli military to “investigate and get to the bottom of the situation.”

The Islamic Jihad movement denied Israel’s assertions that a failed rocket launch was responsible, claiming that it does not use public facilities such as hospitals for military purposes, according to a written statement published Wednesday which described the Israeli accusations as “false and baseless.”

CNN cannot independently confirm what caused the blast at Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza.

The building was sheltering thousands of displaced people when it was bombed Tuesday, the Palestinian Health Ministry said in a statement. Many victims are still under the rubble, it added.

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