A document uncovered in the Gaza Strip reveals that Islamic Jihad knowingly launched faulty rockets that killed hundreds of Gazans during the Iron Swords war, Kan News reported on Tuesday.

According to the report,  a document discovered in Gaza during the war and analyzed by the Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center shows that Hamas’s leadership was enraged by the fact that many Islamic Jihad rockets were landing inside the Strip and killing Gazan civilians.

The document summarizes a meeting held in Beirut between a senior Hamas official, identified by the code name “Ahmed,” and the head of Islamic Jihad’s military wing, Akram al-Ajuri.

Ahmed wrote that he confronted Ajuri, saying: “Your rockets are falling on people’s homes in broad daylight.” He then recorded Ajuri’s reply — a response that reportedly stunned even Hamas.

Ajuri said, “We’re at war. And even if a thousand people are killed by friendly fire, that’s the price of war.”

In the same conversation, Ajuri admitted that Islamic Jihad was aware there were serious problems with its rockets, adding that its military wing had manufactured them using blueprints received from Iran’s Revolutionary Guards.

Ten days after the outbreak of the war, a rocket fired by Islamic Jihad toward Israel landed in the courtyard of Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City, where thousands of Gazans had taken shelter from Israeli airstrikes. Hundreds of civilians were killed in the explosion.

Initially, Hamas accused Israel of carrying out a massacre and hoped the incident would prompt international pressure to stop the war. However, footage broadcast by Al Jazeera and released by the IDF showed the rocket being launched and then falling inside the hospital grounds.

(YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)