2023-10-18 04:06:17
Pro-Palestinian protesters gather near the Israeli consulate during a protest (REUTERS/Dilara Senkaya)
Violent protests broke out across much of the Arab world amid a wave of anger following an airstrike on a Gaza hospital that killed at least 200 Palestinians overnight Tuesday.
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Jordanian security forces dispersed dozens of protesters who tried to storm the Israeli embassy in Amman.
”A security source denies rumors regarding the assault on an embassy in the Al Rabieh area (referring to Israel) and confirms that the group of protesters who gathered near the embassy trying to take it to it were expelled from their premises. surroundings,” according to the official Jordanian news agency Petra.
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For his part, a member of the Al Wehda party, Mayd al Fariy, pointed out that dozens of protesters gathered around the embassy and burned car tires, but did not attack the premises.
He indicated that the Israeli staff of the diplomatic representation left Jordan since the second day of the war between the terrorist group Hamas and the Jewish State, which began on October 7, and asserted that the embassy is “very protected by security barriers that “No protester might jump.”
Protesters clashed with police (REUTERS/Dilara Senkaya)
In Tunisia, nearly 2,000 people demonstrated in front of the French Embassy in the Tunisian capital and called for the dismissal of their ambassador as well as that of the United States for their support of Israel.
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Shouting “The people want the liberation of Palestine,” the protesters, including opposition figures and civil society representatives, accused the two countries of being allied with the Jewish state.
In recent days, the French Institute, dependent on the French Foreign Ministry to promote its culture and language, has been the victim of graffiti on its façade with slogans once morest the Government’s policy, harshly criticized for prohibiting pro-Palestinian protests “to avoid riots.” . For its part, the organization defended this Tuesday in a statement “the determination of its commitment” as it is the only foreign cultural center that is still active in Gaza.
In the Iranian capital, Tehran, hundreds of people gathered in front of the embassies of France and the United Kingdom where they threw eggs and shouted “death” to the two European countries, while thousands more came to the city’s Palestine Square to express their gonna.
“The flames of the American-Israeli bombs, dropped tonight on the wounded Palestinian victims in the hospital (Al Ahli Arab) in Gaza, will soon devour them,” declared the Iranian regime, quoted by the IRNA agency.
He announced possible “preventive actions” if Israel carried out a ground incursion into Gaza to attack the Hamas terrorist group.
A man holds a Palestinian flag as Turkish riot police use water cannons to disperse pro-Palestinian protesters (REUTERS/Dilara Senkaya)
For its part, Egypt urged Israel to “stop bombing the vicinity of the Rafah terminal,” a border post in the south of the Strip, to allow the entry of humanitarian aid “as soon as possible.”
The largest demonstrations took place in Istanbul (Turkey), where a crowd carrying pro-Palestinian flags and banners gathered on Tuesday night in front of the Israeli consulate and then entered the facilities following breaching a police barricade.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stated that “attacking a hospital containing women, children and civilians is the latest example that Israel’s attacks are devoid of the most basic human values.”
This Tuesday, Israel’s National Security Council warned Israelis to leave Turkey as soon as possible, citing the risk of attacks.
Pro-Palestinian protesters shout slogans during a protest, following the death of hundreds of Palestinians in an explosion at the Al-Ahli hospital (REUTERS/Dilara Senkaya)
Incidents were also reported at the United States embassy in Beirut (Lebanon), whose access was cut off by Lebanese security forces.
Another of the protests that emerged in that region took place in front of the French Embassy in the Lebanese capital, where some of the participants threw stones at the building amid the deployment of riot police, a witness to the events explained to EFE.
For his part, Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati announced that Wednesday will be a day of national mourning for the victims of the Gaza hospital.
Protesters set fire to an improvised Israeli flag (REUTERS/Dilara Senkaya)
Israel has denied being the author of the bombing of the Al Ahli hospital in Gaza.
An Israeli Army spokesperson assured that “multiple intelligence sources indicate that Islamic Jihad is responsible for the failed launch of the rocket that hit the hospital.”
“An analysis of the Israeli Army’s operational systems indicates that terrorists fired a volley of rockets in Gaza that passed very close to the Al Ahli Hospital at the moment it was hit,” an Israeli military spokesman said in a statement.
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