Israel army says rocket misfired by Gaza militants hit hospital

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JERUSALEM, Undefined -- The Israeli army said Tuesday a strike which hit a Gaza hospital, killing at least 200 people according to Hamas officials, was a rocket misfired by Islamic Jihad Palestinian militants.

Analysis indicated"that a barrage of rockets was fired by terrorists in Gaza, passing in close proximity to Ahli hospital in Gaza at the time it was hit," the military said in a statement issued more than two hours after the deadly explosion.

According to the Israeli army,"intelligence from multiple sources we have... indicates that Islamic Jihad is responsible for the failed rocket launch which hit the hospital in Gaza." Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu charged in a statement that"it was barbaric terrorists in Gaza that attacked the hospital in Gaza, and not the IDF ."

 

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