“A lie has already traveled around the earth three times before the truth puts its shoes on.” Even though this quote is probably incorrectly attributed to Mark Twain (1835-1910), the world experienced a prime example of how the sentence hits the core of truth.

DLNews Breaking News:

THIS IS HOW THE WORLD FELL FOR THE HAMAS LIE.

On Tuesday evening, the terrorist group Hamas reported through its so-called health authority that Israel had killed at least 500 people in an air strike on a hospital. Now it is clear: All evidence suggests that it was not Israel's air force but a Palestinian rocket that hit the hospital grounds and killed the civilians.

On Tuesday evening, the terrorist group Hamas reported through its so-called health authority that Israel had killed at least 500 people in an air strike on a hospital. Now it is clear: All evidence suggests that it was not Israel's air force but a Palestinian rocket that hit the hospital grounds and killed the civilians.

A US government spokeswoman said after an extensive review that everything indicates that "Israel is not responsible for yesterday's explosion at the hospital in Gaza."

But the Hamas claim went viral because numerous news outlets and media outlets reported it almost precisely as the terrorists had published it.

This is even though it is known from previous wars that Hamas regularly exaggerates its number of victims and conceals its rocket strikes.

The Arab world is in turmoil.

The Arab world is in turmoil; demonstrations against Israel and the USA occurred in many capitals this evening. Propaganda accusing Israel of "genocide" against the Palestinians is accumulating on social media. Jew-haters raged in Berlin, injured police officers, and threw Molotov cocktails at a Jewish community center.

The leaders of Jordan, Egypt, and the Palestinian Authority canceled a meeting with US President Joe Biden in Amman.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan further heated the mood, calling on "all of humanity" to end Israel's "unprecedented brutality." Although the facts tell a different story, he does not correct his tweet.

Israel needs time to refute the accusation.

In the following hours, Israel's army and independent experts gathered evidence and facts to examine and then refute the outrageous accusation of a targeted attack on a hospital full of civilians. Everything now suggests that:

There was no attack on Gaza at the time of the explosion on the hospital grounds. Still, a ricochet shot fired by the terrorist organization Islamic Jihad caused the explosion on the hospital grounds.

Hamas knew it was not an Israeli airstrike and still blamed Israel for the disaster.

The claimed number of victims is greatly exaggerated - the impact site was not the hospital's main building but its parking lot.

But it was too late - because many media outlets had fallen for the Hamas campaign and spread their claims as accurate.