WE Did NOT Do IT  

By Shlomo Maital

   A blast at al-Ahli Baptist Hospital, a Christian-run medical complex in central Gaza City,  killed hundreds yesterday (Tuesday).

    Who did it?

     Not us.

     I just watched a video clip, a film of the launch of 10 Islamic Jihad rockets from a cemetery directly bordering the hospital.  As we watch the volley of rockets launch, one after the other, there is a huge explosion on the path of the rockets, close to the launch site. The clip was made by Channel 12, from a long range camera atop a tall building in Netivot, near Gaza.

      It is a fact —  in the Guardian of the Walls conflict, May 2021,    some 15 percent of all rockets launched by Palestinian terror groups fell short inside Gaza. Hamas primarily uses a variety of locally manufactured rockets as well as munitions and rocket components that are smuggled in.  The rockets are made in ‘factories’ deep underground.  These are not Foxconn quality control plants.  And the materials are improvised. 

         15% fall on Gaza.  Out of 10:   one disastrous dud.  Make sense? 

         Israel has a recording of a cell phone conversation (we listen in) between Hamas operatives, discussing the fall of an Islamic Jihad rocket on the hospital and informing one another of how this happened.  There is no shock, or concern, in their voices. Matter of fact.   It happens.  Oh, well.

          It took Israel about 12 hours to provide this evidence.  Why?  Because we had to get it right.  Because veracity is crucial.  But leave it to the fake-news propaganda machine of Hamas to blame us for what they did.

           And blame us in general, for what they launched, on October 7.