On Tuesday afternoon, a rocket launched at Israeli civilians by Palestinian Islamic Jihad fell short in the Gaza Strip. It landed on a hospital where Hamas claims hundreds of people are dead.
Israel now concludes that Islamic Jihad launched the rocket toward Israel that ended up bombing a hospital in Gaza City.
— Spencer Brown (@itsSpencerBrown) October 17, 2023
The outlets and politicians that told you Israel was to blame sold you terrorist disinformation straight from Hamas.
The latest:https://t.co/JqezwMZHAn
When reports of the hospital bombing broke Hamas claimed, without evidence, that Israel launched a deliberate airstrike on the hospital. The majority of the media took that statement and ran with it. It wasn't true. Corrections have not been made.
Update: At least 500 people were killed by an Israeli airstrike at a Gaza hospital, the Palestinian Health Ministry said. Follow our live coverage. https://t.co/f3iHo5nFNy
— The New York Times (@nytimes) October 17, 2023
As a result, Palestinian Authority Leader Mahmoud Abbas has cancelled his meeting with President Joe Biden tomorrow.
BREAKING: President Mahmoud Abbas cancels planned meeting with President Biden after hospital strike - AP
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) October 17, 2023
Riots have broken out in Hebron and other locations in the West Bank, in addition to outside of the Israeli Embassy in Jordan.
Hundreds of Palestinians are clashing with PA security forces in Jenin, Nablus, Bethlehem and Ramallah.
— Younis Tirawi | يونس (@ytirawi) October 17, 2023
Demonstrations in Hebron, Qalqilia, Tulkarem .
From the PA administrative capital in Ramallah pic.twitter.com/1cuelQa2tb
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Hebron, West Bank right now pic.twitter.com/2ytioq7WYu
— Iran Observer (@IranObserver0) October 17, 2023
Riots broke out in Jordanian capital #Amman after a strike on a hospital in the Gaza Strip
— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) October 17, 2023
Riots broke out near the Israeli embassy in #Jordan, Yediotnews reported.
One of the videos published in social networks shows protesters throwing Molotov cocktails at the embassy… pic.twitter.com/dwntOUSpn3
The damage is done.
To all those who rushed to condemn Israel before seeing any evidence: IDF Intelligence from multiple sources clearly indicates that Islamic Jihad is responsible for the failed rocket launch which hit the hospital in Gaza.
— Ambassador Michael Herzog (@AmbHerzog) October 17, 2023
They kill not only Israelis but also Palestinians, and… pic.twitter.com/TZ1QTkHuL0
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