NO ONE IN REGION IS ‘BUYING ISRAELI NARRATIVE’ ON HOSPITAL BLAST, SAYS JORDAN

Thu 19 October 2023:

Jordan’s foreign minister has said “no one is buying” the Israeli narrative about the Gaza hospital explosion.

Ayman Safadi told NBC’s Lester Holt that people “in this part of the world” will not believe Palestinian militants accidentally bombed al Ahli Hospital unless there is an independent inquiry.

Asked whether he believed Israel, Mr Safadi said: “No one is buying that narrative in this part of the world.”

He continued: “The only way people would entertain a different narrative is if there was an independent international inquiry into the tragedy with impeccable evidence that it was not Israel.”

WHAT IS ISRAEL’S NARRATIVE ON THE GAZA HOSPITAL EXPLOSION?

Gaza’s health ministry has blamed the blast on Israel, who has accused the Palestinian Islamic Jihad of misfiring a rocket, who in turn has said Israel was responsible.

The health ministry said 471 people were killed, but the IDF claims the figure was inflated.

At least 500 people were killed in an explosion at al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City at around 7.30pm on Tuesday, the deadliest strike since war broke out between Hamas and Israel on October 7.

In the fog of war, reactions have been confused, with denials of responsibility from both Israeli and Palestinian camps against a backdrop of competing online narratives and widespread disinformation.

But many are disinclined to believe Israel’s claim that the explosion was caused by a rocket launched by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) group. This scepticism has been fuelled by contradictions between Israel’s immediate and later responses.

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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