The conflict between Israel and Hamas took a dangerous turn as an estimated 300-500 persons are reported to have died as a powerful explosion hit a hospital in Gaza. The Palestinian leaders alleged it as the handiwork of Israeli Defence Forces, while Tel Aviv released a video to claim it was a Hamas rocket targeteed at Israel and that misfired, exploded midway and fell on the hospital.

The Gaza hospital was full of refugees displaced by the relentless bombing of the Hamas locations by Israel.

It was a horrifying scene at the hospital. Terrified doctors stood amid a sea of ​​dead children after a massive explosion at a hospital in Gaza, with more than 500 feared dead and many more buried under the rubble. A massive explosion rocked Gaza City's al-Ahli Hospital on Tuesday night as it was being used to treat and shelter thousands of civilians during the ongoing conflict. It has given rise to a toxic game, in which both sides blame the cross-border armed forces for the destruction. 

The attack on the hospital is the bloodiest incident so far in the 11 days of Israeli attacks on Gaza. The explosion at the hospital happened a day before US President Joe Biden's visit to Israel to express sympathy against Hamas attacks. The United Nations also says that a school was also targeted in the air strike Used by civilians for shelter.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the whole world should know that this attack was done by the barbaric terrorists of Gaza. “They attacked the hospital in Gaza, not Israel. Those who brutally kill our children also kill their children.”

Netanyahu has said that Israel Defense Forces operational systems have indicated that rockets were fired by terrorists in Gaza.

Netanyahu said that intelligence from several sources revealed that Islamic Jihad was responsible for the unsuccessful rocket launch.

"An analysis of IDF operational systems indicates that a barrage of rockets was fired by terrorists in Gaza, passing in close proximity to the Al Ahli hospital in Gaza at the time it was hit," he posted on social media platform X.

"Intelligence from multiple sources we have in our hands indicates that Islamic Jihad is responsible for the failed rocket launch which hit the hospital in Gaza," he added.

"The entire world should know: It was barbaric terrorists in Gaza that attacked the hospital in Gaza, and not the IDF," Netanyahu said in another post on X.

"Those who brutally murdered our children also murder their own children," he added.

Confirming the same, the spokesperson of the Israel Defense Forces posted on X, "From the analysis of the operational systems of the IDF, an enemy rocket barrage was carried out towards Israel, which passed through the vicinity of the hospital when it was hit. According to intelligence information from several sources, the Islamic Jihad terrorist organization is responsible for the failed shooting that hit the hospital."

Meanwhile, on Tuesday, Tal Heinrich, a spokesperson for Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, told CNN that the IDF "does not target hospitals."

"We only target Hamas strongholds, arms depots, and terror targets," he added.

Heinrich made his remarks after Palestinian sources said that initial estimates suggest an Israeli attack on the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza City resulted in 200 to 300 fatalities.

A Reuter report from Gaza said the explosion claimed the lives of hundreds of people, according to health authorities in the Hamas-run enclave.

A Gaza civil defence chief stated on Al-Jazeera television that over 300 people were killed in the explosion at Al-Ahli al-Arabi Hospital.

Initially, at least 500 deaths were reported, according to a source from the Gaza Health Ministry. The Hamas-run government is in charge of both departments, Reuters reported.

However, Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, the spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), has stated that reports of a possible Israeli airstrike against a hospital in Gaza are still under review.

The initial investigation by the IDF shows that the explosion in the hospital in Gaza was caused by a failed Hamas rocket launch, as reported by the news organization i24NEWS.

"There are a lot of airstrikes, a lot of failed rockets, and a lot of fake reports by Hamas," he said as reported by The Times of Israel. As Israel continues to retaliate against Hamas, Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said that Hamas thought Israel would break, but "We will break Hamas," reported The Times of Israel.

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres condemned the Gaza hospital explosion incident and said that he is "horrified" by the killings of Palestinian civilians.

In a strong condemnation, Guterres said, "I am horrified by the killing of hundreds of Palestinian civilians in a strike on a hospital in Gaza today, which I strongly condemn," the UN posted on X on Wednesday.

"Hospitals and medical personnel are protected under international humanitarian law," the post said.

Following the blast, condemnation has been pouring from all across the world.

US President Joe Biden said that he feels "outraged and deeply saddened" over the Gaza hospital blast.

"I am outraged and deeply saddened by the explosion at the Al Ahli Arab hospital in Gaza, and the terrible loss of life that resulted," a White House press release read.

Biden, upon hearing the news, called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Jordan's King Abdullah II to discuss it.

"Immediately upon hearing this news, I spoke with King Abdullah II of Jordan, and Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel and have directed my national security team to continue gathering information about what exactly happened," the release quoted Biden as saying.

"The United States stands unequivocally for the protection of civilian life during conflict and we mourn the patients, medical staff and other innocents killed or wounded in this tragedy," he added.