Another strange thing about Israel’s claim that its intelligence services didn’t detect preparations for the Hamas attack on October 7 is the fact that it is now releasing what it claims are intercepted conversations of Hamas fighters talking to each other about matters of high importance.
Israel has released an audio clip of two voices which it claims belong to Hamas militants speaking about the hotly disputed explosion at the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza on Tuesday. The IDF had previously told the press that it would be releasing intercepted conversations which prove Palestinian Islamic Jihad, not Israel, was responsible for the blast.
Here’s a transcript of Israel’s English translation of the dialogue:
Hamas Operative #2: I’m telling you this is the first time that we see a missile like this failing and so that’s why we are saying it belongs to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
Hamas Operative #1: What?
Hamas Operative #2: They are saying it belongs to Palestinian Islamic Jihad
Hamas Operative #1: It’s from us?
#2: It looks like it
#1: Who says this?
#2: They are saying that the shrapnel from the missile is local shrapnel and not like Israeli shrapnel
#1: What are you saying (name bleeped)?
#2: But God bless, it couldn’t have found another place to explode?
#1: Nevermind, (name bleeped), yes they shot it from the cemetery behind the hospital
#2: What?
#1: They shot it coming from the cemetery behind the Al-Ma’amadani Hospital, and it misfired and fell on them
#2: There is a cemetery behind it?
#1: Yes, Al-Ma’amadani is exactly in the compound
#2: Where is it when you enter the compound?
#1: You first enter the compound and don’t go towards the city and it’s on the right side of the Al-Ma’amadani Hospital.
#2: Yes , I know it.