An Islamic Jihad spokesman has admitted that the militant group, rather than Israel, was responsible for a strike that damaged Gaza’s Al-Ahli Arab Hospital at the start of the war, reportedly killing dozens of people.
In an interrogation video released by the Israel Defence Force (IDF), Tarek Abu Shaluf, spokesman for the political wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Gaza, admitted that the strike on the hosptial was caused by “a local rocket. We said it was Israeli”.
“To erase this story, the movement [Islamic Jihad] made some moves, it made up a story that the rocket belonged to the occupation [Israel] and that the target was the [hospital] building,” said Mr Abu Shaluf, who was among 500 militants captured by the IDF last month.
The strike in October last year was initially suspected to have been carried out by Israel, with the country accusing the BBC of “modern blood libel” for jumping to conclusions in its reporting. Israel later accused Islamic Jihad of firing rockets which fell short and hit the hospital.
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