The Missile 'Vaporized': HAMAS Unable to Prove Israel Struck Hospital

The Palestinian radical movement HAMAS has not presented tangible evidence of a missile strike on a hospital in Gaza, explaining that the missile 'vaporized.' Representatives of the movement suggested that they can welcome investigators and review their evidence, according to The New York Times.

Journalists from the publication requested the representatives to provide any evidence that the missile indeed hit the hospital. 'The missile dissolved like salt in water. It vaporized. Nothing is left,' said HAMAS representative Gaza Hamada in response to the inquiry.

Meanwhile, the head of HAMAS's media service, Salama Maarouf, told the reporters that they 'can come, review everything, and clarify based on the evidence we have.' 'Who said we are obliged to provide every missile fragment that kills our people?' the service head added.

The publication reports that global media outlets shared news of the attack on the Gaza hospital immediately after it was disclosed by Gaza's media resources. Israel has denied the adversary's data, though it has been supported by Arab countries. A few days later, Gaza authorities altered their narrative regarding the incident.

Initially, representatives from Gaza and HAMAS claimed that 500-833 people were killed as a result of the strike; now, the number of reported fatalities has more frequently settled at 471. The explosion, as it turns out, did not occur within the hospital itself but rather in its parking lot, the newspaper notes.

The publication adds that Israel has placed responsibility for the explosion on the 'Islamic Jihad' group, which allegedly fired a missile that subsequently veered off course and hit a civilian target.

The Israeli side has declined journalists' requests for information regarding the operations conducted at the hospital's vicinity at the time of the explosion. Israeli representatives have not informed the publication about the footage on which they claim the Palestinian group is responsible for the explosion.

'We have made mistakes; I won't deny that. However, mistakes of this scale do not happen,' said a representative of 'Islamic Jihad,' Musab al-Braim, to the publication.