A report by the British Channel 4 showed the falsity of Israeli claims accusing the resistance of responsibility for the massacre at Al-Ahly Baptist Hospital in Gaza, which claimed the lives of more than 500 martyrs and hundreds of wounded, Tuesday, October 17, 2023.

In its report, Channel 4 suggests that the Israeli attack was carried out by a missile that exploded in the air. This is because there is evidence confirming that there are no huge craters usually caused by missiles, and the minor damage to the surrounding buildings also suggests this.

The channel also indicated that an examination of television footage and missile launch sites confirms that the resistance missile launch site conflicts with the hospital site.

The channel also indicated that the occupying state had gained authority in denying its crimes in the beginning, and cited this as evidence of what happened with the martyr, journalist Sherine Abu Aqla.

Hamas refute

The Hamas movement had issued a memorandum to refute the Israeli occupation’s allegations regarding its disavowal of responsibility for the massacre of the National Arab Hospital “Al-Baptist” in Gaza City.

In its memorandum, the Hamas movement provided conclusive evidence that the occupation committed this crime, noting that the occupation, since the beginning of the aggression, did not distinguish between civilian and military targets. The bombing systematically targeted emergency services, ambulances, civil defense, schools, mosques, and churches. It also sent several warnings to several hospitals, warning to evacuate in the past few days.

Among the evidence provided by the Hamas movement, hospital directors in Gaza confirmed that the occupation had contacted them and demanded their immediate evacuation, under the pretext that the hospital was located within the “geographical scope of Israeli military operations.” The most prominent hospitals that received calls from the occupation were (Al-Awda, Kamal Adwan, the Indonesian, and Al-Quds, And the Baptist, and the Kuwaiti).

According to the statement, on October 14, at exactly eight-thirty in the evening, the occupation fired two shells towards the Baptist Hospital, then the occupation army called the hospital director, Dr. Maher Ayyad, asking him: “We warned you yesterday with two shells, so why did you not evacuate the hospital until now?” .

The hospital director also informed the bishop of the Evangelical Church in Britain about the occupation army's contact, who in turn contacted international organizations before sending the hospital a message reassuring them that they could remain in the hospital.

The statement also indicated that the military spokesman for the occupation army quickly published a statement on the X and Telegram platforms immediately after the massacre occurred, in which he said: “We had warned the evacuation of the Baptist Hospital and five other hospitals so that the Hamas organization would not take them as a refuge,” but he quickly deleted it.

The statement also confirmed that before and during the event, the resistance factions did not fire any missiles towards the occupation, the occupation sirens did not activate, and the Iron Dome anti-tank weapons did not launch.

While the statement confirmed that the occupation's reconnaissance aircraft are photographing and monitoring every inch of the Gaza Strip, so if the missiles were caused by resistance missiles, let it be published to the world with one picture proving that.

The statement also questioned the occupation's claim that the massacre was caused by "Islamic Jihad" missiles. How was the occupation able to identify and distinguish between the resistance missiles immediately after they were launched (as it claims)?

The statement also indicated that the resistance missiles are locally made missiles, and do not have the destructive power that kills hundreds in one strike.

The statement also said, “The occupation military system documents and records all its operations by day, hour, minute, and second. And in all previous times, its media system came out to announce or deny anything less than these massacres, so what made it wait more than 4 hours other than to spin scenarios?!”

Yesterday, Tuesday, the Baptist Hospital in Gaza was subjected to “an Israeli massacre that left 471 people dead, 28 of whom were in critical condition,” according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza.

The massacre sparked widespread global outrage and strong condemnations in several capitals, as it was considered a “war crime,” with accusations of the international community being in collusion with Israel, and calls for “the necessity of providing international protection for the Palestinian people.”

Since October 7, Israel has continued to launch intensive raids on Gaza, cutting off the supplies of water, electricity, food, and medicine to the Strip. This sparked local and international warnings of a double humanitarian catastrophe, in parallel with intense Israeli raids and arrests in cities and towns of the occupied West Bank.

In response to “daily Israeli attacks against the Palestinian people and their sanctities,” Hamas and other Palestinian factions in Gaza launched Operation “Al-Aqsa Flood” on October 7, at the beginning of which they stormed Israeli settlements and military sites surrounding the Gaza Strip.

Source: Arabic Post