In a strong and hard-hitting interview, the president of the Palestinian National Initiative Mustafa Barghouti said that Israel’s claim that its defence forces are not responsible for the bombing of a Gaza hospital on Tuesday night – which killed 500 innocent patients – is “a lie” and US President Joe Biden agreeing with the Israeli claim is “unacceptable”.In a 14-minute interview with Karan Thapar for The Wire, Barghouti, who accused Israel of “ethnic cleansing of the people of Gaza”, claimed that IDF’s explanation or account of what happened at the Gaza hospital has changed on three occasions. First, he said, Israel claimed they had bombed the hospital because Hamas militants were sheltering there. Then they accused Hamas of the bombing. Finally, they accused the Islamic jihad.Barghouti, who is a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, said Hamas does not have rockets with the capacity to create the damage that was done at the Gaza hospital where, he said, 475 patients were killed.Whilst calling US President Biden’s agreement with the Israeli position “unacceptable”, Barghouti also identified other alleged Israeli lies which he said the American president accepted and repeated.Barghouti dismissed both the statement that the US has its own evidence that suggests Israel is not responsible for the Gaza hospital bombing as well as the transcripts that the Israeli military spokesperson Admiral Hagari played on Wednesday.Barghouti said the Palestinian people will be willing to accept an immediate international commission to investigate what happened at the Gaza hospital.In the interview, Barghouti explained – asserting that he had it on good authority – that the Jordan Summit, where President Mahmoud Abbas of Palestine, President El-Sisi of Egypt and King Abdullah of Jordan were due to meet President Biden, was called off because they were made aware that the US president did not intend to propose a ceasefire but simply use the meeting to seek political “cover” for the fact he had earlier met the Israeli prime minister.