Israel’s military has said it will release evidence – including drone footage and intercepted conversation – that it claims will prove an Islamist militant group was responsible for a deadly blast at a hospital in Gaza.

“We are running on it because someone is doing a fake on us, on Israel,” Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, the spokesperson for the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said.

It has not been possible to independently verify the claim.

Hundreds of people were killed in a devastating explosion at the al Ahli hospital in an attack that Palestinian officials have blamed on Israel. It is the deadliest single event of the Israel-Hamas war so far.

The carnage triggered new protests against an unprecedented campaign of Israeli aerial bombardments on Gaza in response to a deadly attack on Israel by Hamas, which controls the Palestinian enclave, on 7 October.

Seeking to push back on the allegations, Rear Admiral Hagari said no Israeli aircraft had been operating in the area of the hospital at the time of the explosion.