Iran’s IRNA state news agency has claimed the “principal target” of the missile strike which damaged the Israeli hospital was a nearby technology park it said was used by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
The Gav-Yam Negev technology park, is less than a mile from Soroka Medical Center, the Be’er Sheva hospital which was damaged in the strike.
The technology park’s is described as “Israel’s most advanced center of research and development… adjacent to the Ben Gurion University campus and the IDF C4i Branch campus.” The C4i directorate is the IDF’s elite technological unit and the park connects “veterans of the IDF’s elite technological units, graduates of Ben Gurion University, the high-tech industry” as well as investors and academics.