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The Lead with Jake Tapper

Biden visits Israel after devastating blast at Gaza hospital

The Lead with Jake Tapper

CNN

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3.51.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2023

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

President Biden arrived in Israel hours after a devastating explosion in the courtyard of a Baptist hospital in Gaza. The president said earlier today that the deadly hospital tragedy in Gaza may have been caused by Palestinians. Biden also announced Israel agreed that humanitarian assistance can cross into Gaza from Egypt.  For daily information on the Israel-Gaza conflict, check out CNN’s podcast ‘Tug of War: Attack on Israel’ here: https://link.chtbl.com/-lB8n-bJ  To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

And welcome to the lead on Jake Tapper, President Biden arrived in Israel hours after a devastating

0:11.7

explosion in the courtyard of a Baptist hospital in Gaza, a deadly tragedy that the U.S. is now

0:18.6

asserting the U.S. believes Israel is not responsible for rather President Biden said earlier

0:25.1

today. It was damaged that the Palestinians may have caused. The images emerging are devastating

0:31.3

in the descriptions of the deadly aftermath or rather graphic. Here's what a volunteer

0:36.2

who went to help clear the remains said.

0:41.2

I came at 8 a.m. as a volunteer thinking I will help with minor things, but I was shocked

0:46.8

to see unimaginable things like children's corpses, elderly corpses, bodies of dead women

0:53.6

scattered, human hands, legs, intestines and many human bodies.

1:01.9

The Hamas controlled Palestinian health ministry immediately blamed the Israeli military yesterday,

1:09.4

and that accusation flew around the world. But after investigating the matter, Israel says

1:16.4

that they have evident that the cause of the blast was actually a failed rocket launch

1:21.9

from Islamic jihad, an Islamic militant group. Israeli officials say that the damage does

1:27.8

not suggest it was from an Israeli missile. And earlier today, a spokesman for the Israeli

1:33.0

defense forces told me that the failed rocket was caught live on Al Jazeera.

1:38.8

They were broadcasting it live, and I actually have an image here of the launch of the broadcast,

1:45.8

and this is a screen capture of what they did. And you can see this is at just 659, you

1:51.0

see the Al Jazeera emblem, and that's the rocket that actually fell into the hospital.

1:57.6

There's Israelis also released audio of individuals whom they claim are with Hamas discussing

2:04.6

the incident, and in the audio, they acknowledged reports that it was Islamic jihad that launched

2:09.8

the rocket and that that failed rocket fell on or near the hospital. President Biden

2:15.0

today in Tel Aviv said that the intelligence he has seen matches with Israeli intelligence.

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