‘What I don’t see are bodies’, insists Israel
| Date :20-Oct-2023 |
TEL AVIV,
ISRAEL Defence Force (IDF) on Thursday refuted claims made by the Palestinian side that Israel was behind the bomb explosion at the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza. The IDF also poked holes in the claims made by Hamas that several people had been killed in the explosion. In a video briefing, IDF spokesperson Lieutenant colonel Jonathan Conricus while reiterating the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s statement that the Islamic Jihad was behind the explosion at the Hospital said that the preliminary analysis suggests that the “rocket” exploded in the car parking and seems like no one was killed in the incident.
While describing a video analysis, the IDF spokesperson said, “We can see that this area is quite black, this appears that there was a large fire. This is really the centre of where the rocket impacted, the impact point of the rocket. What I see here is about 15 cars that were affected by the rocket that fell, I see remains of fire, what I don’t see are bodies.”
IDF also questioned claims by the Hamas controlled health ministry in Gaza that several people had been killed in the explosion. “If five hundred people were indeed killed here or 471 which is the latest update from the Hamas-controlled Health Ministry in Gaza, this is just a few minutes after the fire erupted, where are all the bodies..., If so many people were killed, where are the bodies” said Lieutenant colonel Conricus.
In his analysis the IDF spokesperson stated that pictures clicked from the explosion site showed a huge fire, but when an Israeli bomb hits a target it makes a big crater and not a fire. “If you have been watching the news, this is exactly what a rocket impact cited Israel looks like, that’s what we see when a rocket impacts Israel. We don’t see Giant creators, because it’s not hundreds of pounds of bombs. We see fires, we see burnt cars and burnt stuff because when rocket lands usually they ignite a fire” the IDF stated.