The Hamas-run Palestinian Health Ministry claimed earlier this week that Israel targeted a hospital in Gaza, dropped a bomb on it, and killed more than 500 people.
Democrats, legacy news publications, and notorious anti-Semitic propagandists instantly made the claims go viral Tuesday night on social media.
Every aspect of what the Palestinians claimed happened has effectively been debunked through evidence and refuted in statements released by Israeli officials, U.S. officials, and now European officials.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) released evidence showing that the explosion was not caused by an aerial bomb and did not strike the hospital — it exploded in a parking lot. It also released intercepted communications from Hamas terrorists who said the explosion was caused by a rocket fired by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
U.S. Intelligence later confirmed that it had “satellite and other infrared data showing a launch of a rocket or missile from Palestinian fighter positions within Gaza,” according to a report from The New York Times.
AFP reported that a European intelligence agency told the publication: “There wasn’t 200 or even 500 deaths, more likely between 10 and 50.”
AFP later reported that new estimates from the U.S. Intelligence Community paint the number of deaths at “far fewer” than what the Palestinians claimed.
A U.S. intelligence assessment viewed by the AFP said that the number of estimated deaths was at the “low end of the 100-to-300 spectrum.”
Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs official Lior Haiat said that an explosion from the Palestinian terrorist rocket tragically killed “several dozen people.”
Read more at: dailywire.com