ISRAEL'S 'PROOF" IT WAS NOT TO BLAME FOR GAZA HOSPITAL BLAST

VIDEO footage appears to prove a rocket fired from Gaza malfunctioned before exploding at a hospital and killing hundreds.

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Hamas chiefs had blamed an Israeli military strike.

But Israel claimed radar data, satellite and drone footage plus audio made it "clear" the missile was launched from inside the Palestinian enclave. The Israel Defence Forces said: "The hospital was hit as a result of a failed rocket launched by the Islamic Jihad. The terrorist organisations within the Gaza Strip fire indiscriminately toward Israel. Islamic Jihad struck a hospital in Gaza - the IDF did not."

The al-Ahli hospital was full of civilians sheltering from strikes ordered by Jerusalem's regime in retaliation for Hamas' bloodbath invasion denied of southern Israel. Hamas all responsibility and accused Israel of lying to the world.

But the IDF maintains that it did not fire any munitions into or close to the area at the time of the tragedy on Tuesday night.

It released a dossier of intelligence purporting to show that the rocket, believed to have been aimed at the northern Israeli city of Haifa, originated in the enclave.

In a wiretapped chat released by the IDF two alleged terrorists also appear to confirm the missile came from a splinter terror cell in Gaza.

One says: "They are saying [the rocket] belongs to Palestinian Islamic Jihad." Another voice says: "It's from us?" The first replies: "It looks like it. They are saying that shrapnel from the missile is local shrapnel and not like Israeli shrapnel.