https://twitter.com/i24NEWS_EN/status/1714540330899386816(english IDF statement)
So the evidence about the hospital blowing up is;
- At 18:15 there was a barrage of missiles fired by Hamas
- At 18:59 a barrage of 10 rockets was fired by Islamic Jihad from a cemetery near the prior launch site
- At 18:59 there were reports of the hospital blowing up. The hospital was not directly struck, but instead was hit at the parking lot outside it, with no crater and no structural damage
- There are timestamped videos from Al Jazeera and other media showing the rockets being fired, and the misfired rocket falling back down followed by the explosion
- Aerial imagery shows the lack of damage to the hospital itself and damaged vehicles in the parking lot
- The trajectory of the rockets fired from the launch sites, to reach Haifa and along their visible path, was headed right over the hospital.
- IDF claims no strikes in that area at that time.
- Hamas fighters were caught on an intercepted phone call immediately after the explosion, discussing rockets misfiring and believe they struck the hospital
The actual phone call in Arabic:
https://videoidf.azureedge.net/e67ae402-79e2-4e8c-a6a5-d32da01ccf80The translated phone transcript is;
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2. "I'm telling you, this is first time we see missile like this falling, and so that is why we are saying it belongs to Palestinian Islamic Jihad"
1."What?"
2. "They are saying it belongs to the PGI"
1. "It's from us?"
2. "It looks like it"
1. "Who says this?"
2. "They are saying the shrapnel from the missile is local shrapnel, not like Israeli shrapnel"
1. "What are you saying Abu Omar?"
2. "But god bless, it couldn't have found another place to explode?"
1. "Nevermind, yes, Abu Hajji, 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's 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 toward the city and it's on the right side of the Al-Ma'amadani Hospital"
2. "oooh yes I know it"
Notably, the IDF is willing to expose their intelligence gathering by demonstrating that they're actively spying on Hamas cell phone calls. Which was kind of obvious to begin with, but it still might compromise further intelligence simply by reminding fighters dumb enough to use unsecure phones that Israel actually is spying on them.
Clearly the IDF feels the importance of proving this was a Palestinian rocket is worth more than the intelligence being compromised, which is probably true in the grand scope of things.
Even though the phone call is clearly second hand sourcing- its Hamas, not Islamic Jihad, about what little they knew and what they heard.
But there's your evidence.