Czech Foreign Minister: increasing evidence suggests Palestinian rocket to blame for hospital attack

There is mounting evidence that the attack on the Al-Ahli Hospital was caused by a failed Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) rocket, Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský has written on X, formerly Twitter. He added that the lesson to be learned is that jumping to conclusions can cause a lot of harm and that it is crucial not to share misinformation and always wait for the facts.

At least 500 people were killed in the explosion at the Al-Ahli Hospital in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday evening, according to news reports from several media organisations. Both Israel and Palestine have blamed each other, with the health ministry in Gaza saying the blast was caused by an Israeli air raid, while Israel attributed it to a misfired rocket launched by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group, a Palestinian Islamist paramilitary organization formed in 1981.