The bombing of a hospital in Gaza left at least 500 dead

He suspects that the Israeli bombing of a hospital in Gaza City this Tuesday caused the least 500 deadspokesperson for Strip Ministry of Health, under the control of the Islamist group Hamas.

It marks the worst massacre in the enclave since five wars between Palestinian militias in Gaza and Israel since 2008.

Attack on Al Ahli Hospitalin the city of Gaza, the eleventh day of the war between Israel and the Strip militias is taking place, marked by intense bombardment throughout the Strip, where thousands of civilians are taking shelter in health centers, full of wounded.

“The massacre at the Arab al-Ahli hospital is unprecedented in our history. Although we have witnessed tragedies in wars and past days, what happened this afternoon is tantamount to genocide,” said Mahmud Basal, spokesman for the Gaza Civil Protection.

It is also the attack with the highest number of victims committed so far, since the war between the Palestinian militias of Gaza and Israel broke out on October 7, which has already collected more than 3000 dead in Gaza and 1,400 dead in Israeli territory.

According to local sources, in the health center – a Christian institution to which it belonged Anglican Church – there were about 2,000 people who took shelter from the bombing after evacuating their homes in recent days, a dynamic seen in most hospitals on the Strip.

For his part, the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahuhe blamed “barbaric terrorists from Gaza” attack on the hospital.

“Let the whole world know: the barbaric terrorists from Gaza are the only ones who attacked the hospital in Gaza, not the Israeli army,” the prime minister said in a statement.

“Those who brutally killed our children are also killing their own children,” said Netanyahu, who is scheduled to meet tomorrow with US President Joe Biden, who is visiting Israel.

Both Palestinian National Authority (PNA)headed by the president Mahmoud Abbas; and Hamas – which controls the Gaza Strip – blame Israel for the bombing, but the Israeli military blames the Palestinian Islamic Jihad militia for firing rockets that accidentally hit the hospital.

Abbas canceled his participation in a four-way summit in Amman with Biden, Jordan’s King Abdullah II and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi this Wednesday.after it became known that hundreds of Palestinians were killed in a bomb attack on Al Ahli Hospital in Gaza City.

“The president has decided to cut short his visit to Jordan and immediately return to national soil, and tonight he held an emergency meeting with the Palestinian leadership,” according to a press release from the presidency published by the official Palestinian agency Wafa.

For now, White House He did not comment on that incident, nor did he change the agenda of this Middle East tour.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog also blamed Islamic Jihad for the attack and claimed that “Israel is facing an enemy made of pure evil”, referring to the Islamist militias of Gaza with whom they have been at war for eleven days.

“An Islamic Jihad missile killed many Palestinians in a hospital in Gaza, a place where lives are supposed to be saved,” Herzog said.

“Shame on the media that swallows the lies of Hamas and Islamic Jihad, spreading the blood libel of the 21st century around the world. Shame on the vile terrorists in Gaza who deliberately spill the blood of the innocent,” he said.

The Israeli president stated that “if you defend humanity and the value of every human life, you support Israel.”