More than 500 people were killed in a massive explosion at a Gaza City hospital on Tuesday, the Hamas-run Health Ministry said, blaming an Israeli airstrike for the carnage, while the Israel Defense Forces insist the bloodshed was caused by a failed Hamas rocket.
The attack on Al-Ahli Arab Hospital marks the deadliest incident since the war broke out, and comes just hours before President Biden was expected to visit Israel in a show of support.
Hamas called the explosion “a horrific massacre” and said it was caused by an Israeli attack. Gaza authorities said 500 people were killed, adding that the explosion killed mainly displaced people.
However, Israeli officials refuted the Hamas report, stating that the hospital was not hit by an IDF airstrike, but was instead the victim of a defective rocket launched by the terrorist group.
“An enemy rocket launch was launched towards Israel, which passed in the vicinity of the hospital, when it was hit,” IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari said in a statement.
“According to intelligence information, from various sources we have, the GAP organization is responsible for the failed shooting that affected the hospital.”
As governments blame each other for the bloodiest day since war broke out on October 7, harrowing images from the hospital show many women and children injured by the attack.
The Al-Ahli Arab hospital was hit by a bomb on Tuesday, killing more than 500 people, Gaza officials said. Telegram The survivors of the explosion were taken to Al-Shifa hospital. AP rescuers rushed to the scene of the burning hospital after the explosion.Telegram
Other images show emergency workers carrying ash survivors, many of them children, as they work to clear the area where the hospital once stood.
Many of the bodies recovered from the hospital have been transported to nearby Al Shifa Hospital as officials work to try to identify the dead.
The bombing came hours before President Biden left the United States for Israel, where he will visit Tel Aviv on Wednesday to discuss the importance of the United States and its allies supporting Israel in its fight against Hamas.
The 80-year-old commander-in-chief’s trip was supposed to include a stop in Amman, Jordan, but the nation’s government canceled Wednesday’s meeting between Biden, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and the president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, according to Reuters.
Abbas said he would not attend after the deadly attack on the Gaza City hospital.
The worst attack on Israel in 50 years: how we got here
2005: Israel unilaterally withdraws from the Gaza Strip more than three decades after seizing the territory from Egypt in the Six-Day War.
2006: The terrorist group Hamas wins the Palestinian legislative elections.
2007: Hamas takes control of Gaza in a civil war.
2008: Israel launches a military offensive against Gaza after Palestinian terrorists fire rockets at the city of Sderot.
2023: Hamas launches largest attack on Israel in 50 years.
More than 1,400 Israelis have been killed, more than 4,200 wounded and at least 100 taken hostage, with the death toll expected to rise after Hamas terrorists fired thousands of rockets and sent dozens of militants into Israeli cities. .
Hamas terrorists were seen taking women hostage and parading them down the street in gruesome videos.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced “We are at war” and promised that Hamas would pay “a price it has never known.”
Gaza health officials report that at least 3,000 Palestinians have been killed and more than 12,500 injured.
“In consultation with King Abdullah II of Jordan and in light of the days of mourning announced by President Abbas of the Palestinian Authority, President Biden will postpone his trip to Jordan and the planned meeting with these two leaders and President Sisi of Egypt “said the statement. the White House said in a statement.
“The president sent his deepest condolences for the innocent lives lost in the hospital explosion in Gaza and wished a speedy recovery to the injured. He looks forward to consulting in person with these leaders soon and has agreed to remain in regular and direct contact with each of them over the coming days.”
Although the Israeli military has warned Gaza hospitals to evacuate the territory, doctors have refused to budge, saying it was impossible to mobilize many of the patients while doctors reaffirmed their decision to stay and treat the wounded.
The destruction of the hospital comes as the United Nations also blamed an Israeli airstrike for hitting one of the schools used to house civilians.
Bodies lay on the floor of the destroyed hospital while authorities said more were buried in the rubble. Telegram Rescue workers transport an injured child who was among those taken to a nearby hospital for treatment.
The U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, said at least six people were killed in the attack and dozens more were wounded.
The UN said the bombing also caused “serious structural damage” to the school building, which housed at least 4,000 civilians.
“They had and still have nowhere else to go,” UNRWA Commissioner General Philippe Lazzarini said in a statement.
A Palestinian civilian bloodied and injured in the airstrike is transferred to another hospital on Tuesday. AP The destruction comes as Israel steps up its retaliatory attacks against Hamas, which rules Gaza, following the terrorist group’s surprise invasion on October 7 that killed more than 1,300 people. in Israel.AFP via Getty Images
The destruction comes as Israel steps up its retaliatory attacks against Hamas, which rules Gaza, following the terrorist group’s surprise invasion on October 7 that killed more than 1,300 people in Israel.
Now, 11 days after Israel’s counterattack, health officials say at least 3,000 Palestinians have died.
Israeli officials have vowed to destroy Hamas in an expected ground invasion of Gaza, and IDF soldiers are also seeking to rescue the more than 150 hostages taken by Hamas.
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