Hamas Vows to Release Evidence That Israel Bombed Gaza Hospital

Hamas has said it will provide the international community with evidence proving Israeli culpability in Tuesday's explosion at a hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, that reportedly killed hundreds and has been blamed by Israel on a Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) rocket fired that went off course.

The disaster at the al-Ahli Baptist Hospital has supercharged Israeli-Palestinian tensions amid the Israel Defense Forces' (IDF) continued bombardment of the Gaza Strip. The IDF has already released video, satellite, and intercepted phone call evidence it says shows it was not involved.

But an official from the Palestinian militant group Hamas said on Wednesday that the group is collecting evidence that he said proved Israeli responsibility. "Hamas has a committee that collects all evidence of the Israeli occupation's responsibility for the massacres in Gaza and the Baptist Hospital massacre as well," spokesperson Fawzi Barhoum told Newsweek.

"There is a lot of evidence, eyewitnesses, and videos from Hamas about the occupation committing the Baptist Hospital massacre and the wreckage of rockets. Hamas will publish all the evidence to the world that confirms this massacre was committed intentionally, and will present it to international jurisdictions," the Hamas official added, though did not offer a timeframe.