![](\"https:\/\/imagez.tmz.com\/image\/99\/16by9\/2023\/10\/18\/994e2952587645b49de7b86159ccce2f_md.jpg\")
<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
President Joe Biden<\/strong> is siding with Israel over the bombing Tuesday that killed hundreds of people in a Gaza hospital … claiming it was not Israel that unleashed the weapon.<\/p>\n Israeli intelligence officers said Tuesday’s rocket attack on Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital was the work of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) — an independent Muslim paramilitary organization. They said the jihadists were launching rockets at Israel and one of them misfired and came crashing down on the medical center.<\/p>\n Coupled with the footage, Israeli officials released a purported audio clip of two Hamas terrorists talking about the deadly explosion and blaming PIJ. Hamas, which controls the Palestinians in Gaza, has a tense relationship with PIJ, but the two groups sometimes work together.<\/p>\n In the audio clip, one alleged terrorist says, “They are saying (the rocket) belongs to Palestinian Islamic Jihad. It’s from us?”<\/p>\n The other responds, “It looks like it. It misfired and fell on them… God bless – couldn’t it have found another place to explode?”<\/p>\n However, the Palestinian Health Ministry issued a statement, saying Israeli airstrikes were responsible for the bombing at the medical facility, which was housing thousands of displaced people from the war.<\/p>\n Death tolls from the hospital blast ranged from 200 to 500 people, depending on which side you asked.<\/p>\n Major protests throughout the Middle East flared up as a result of the hospital attack. Hundreds of anti-Israel demonstrators took to the streets in Jordan, Iraq and Lebanon.<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/imagez.tmz.com\/image\/5d\/16by9\/2023\/10\/18\/5dae52b7cf82466e99dd9a6bfe77bb21_md.jpg\")
<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/imagez.tmz.com\/image\/00\/16by9\/2023\/10\/18\/0033f939bbb14543b62f2bb558e76401_md.jpg\")
<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/imagez.tmz.com\/image\/b8\/16by9\/2023\/10\/18\/b8d902059d1d44d5aa854bbda84fbdb2_md.jpg\")
<\/p>\n