In a statement, the Palestinian Authority said Israeli helicopters bombed Israeli civilians during the Supernova music festival on October 7, questioning the Hamas massacre that killed 350 young people attending the festival, the Times Of Israel reported.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded by saying that claims that the Israeli military was killing its own civilians were absurd.

“Today, the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah announced something completely absurd. He denied that it was Hamas that carried out the horrific massacre at the Supernova festival near Gaza,” Netanyahu said in a video statement released in Hebrew and English. “He actually accused Israel of committing this massacre. This is a complete distortion of the truth,” he said.

Netanyahu added that PA President Mahmoud Abbas, “who denied the existence of the Holocaust in the past, today denies the existence of the massacre by Hamas, and this is unacceptable.”

The Palestinian Authority’s statement came just a day after US President Joe Biden said a “restored” Palestinian Authority should rule Gaza after the war, something Israel has repeatedly denied, citing the PA’s refusal to condemn the Oct. 7 attack.

Haaretz reported on Saturday, citing an anonymous Israeli police source, that an Israeli military helicopter had arrived at the festival site near Reim on October 7. It was later widely picked up by the Arab press. A police statement released later to the media said its investigation focused only on police activity, not any military activity, and therefore “no indication of civilian harm from aircraft activity there”. The army did not comment on this message.