2023-10-18 05:56:15
The recordings are intended to prove that a misguided Palestinian rocket was responsible for the fatal impact on the hospital in the Gaza Strip. The video compilation published on Wednesday shows aerial photos of the Al-Ahli Clinic and a parking lot where a fire broke out. Hundreds of people are said to have been killed. Aerial photos before and following the fatal incident are compared. No typical crater can be seen, as is usually the case during Israeli air strikes. Islamic Jhihad denied the blame.
The Hamas-run Ministry of Health puts the number of victims at at least 500, but had previously spoken of a hit in the “courtyard of a hospital” in the center of Gaza City.
The attack on the hospital was condemned worldwide. US President Joe Biden reacted with dismay. He was “outraged and deeply saddened” by the explosion at the hospital and the terrible loss of life it caused, said Biden in a written statement released by the White House on Tuesday evening.
Immediately following the incident became known, he spoke to Jordan’s King Abdullah II and Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and instructed his team to collect further information regarding what happened. “The United States is unequivocally committed to protecting civilians during conflict, and we mourn the patients, medical personnel and other innocents killed or wounded in this tragedy,” the statement continued.
Biden left for Israel on Tuesday evening, where he is expected to make a short visit on Wednesday. The US President had originally wanted to travel on to Jordan to meet with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Egypt’s head of state Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Jordan’s King Abdullah II on Wednesday. However, following the rocket hit the hospital in the Gaza Strip, the meeting in Jordan was canceled at short notice.
“I am appalled by the killing of hundreds of Palestinian civilians today in an attack on a hospital in Gaza, which I condemn in the strongest terms,” wrote UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Twitter (X). “My heart goes out to the families of the victims. Hospitals and medical staff are subject to the protection of international humanitarian law.”
The Russian Foreign Ministry spoke of a shocking inhumane crime. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in an interview with Radio Sputnik that Israel should publish satellite images that prove that the country was not involved in the attack.
On Wednesday morning, the Israeli army called on residents of the city of Gaza and the northern Gaza Strip to go to a “humanitarian area” south of Wadi Gaza. Humanitarian aid should be made available there. The area is located in Al-Mawasi. The army also recommended moving to open areas to the west of Khan Younis, also in the Al-Mawasi area, in the south of the Gaza Strip.
According to the Israeli military, two more senior Hamas members were killed in new air strikes in the Gaza Strip. The Israeli army said on Wednesday that these were Muhammad Awdallah, the commander of Gaza’s anti-tank unit, and Akram Hijazi, a “terrorist from the Hamas naval forces” and arms dealer. Hijazi is the mastermind of terrorist attacks on Israel. The army has continued to attack dozens of terrorist targets in the Gaza Strip in recent days, it said. These include operations centers, launch pads and terrorist infrastructure.
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