On Tuesday, Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in the Gaza Strip was hit by a rocket. Hundreds of people are said to have fallen victim to the attack. At the moment there is still a lot unclear, this is what we know:
Hundreds of people were killed and injured on Tuesday after a rocket hit a hospital in the Gaza Strip. The Health Ministry in Gaza, which is controlled by the militant Islamist Hamas, said on Tuesday evening that thousands of patients and refugees were being housed at the clinic.
The Israeli army, on the other hand, blamed a Palestinian militant organization in the Gaza Strip. The exact number of deaths was initially unclear. All information has not yet been independently verified.
That is the big question that cannot yet be answered. Israel’s and Hamas’s statements are diametrically contradictory.
The Hamas-controlled health authority blamed the Israeli army for the attack. More than 500 people were killed, according to a statement on Hamas’s official website. Many victims are still buried under the rubble.
The attack on the hospital “will forever remain a stain on the conscience of humanity, which has witnessed the atrocities against the Palestinian people without doing anything about it,” the statement said. The attack was a “cold-blooded massacre”.
The Israeli military has clearly denied responsibility for the rocket attack. “The hospital was hit by a failed missile from the terrorist organization Islamic Jihad,” the army said on Wednesday evening. The military had previously said that everything “pointed to” that the militant Palestinian organization was responsible.
An additional review of operational and intelligence systems has now shown that “the Israeli army did not hit the hospital in Gaza.” Military spokesman Daniel Hagari announced that he would make public the proof of the assumption.
“So that the whole world knows: it is the barbaric terrorists in Gaza who attacked the hospital in Gaza, and not the IDF,” Prime Minister Netanyahu also said in a statement. “Whoever brutally murdered our children is also murdering their children,” he added.
The Israeli military statement went on to say that since the start of the recent war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, approximately 450 rockets have been fired at Israel in the Gaza Strip, “endangering the lives of the residents of the Gaza Strip and damaged. This information could not be independently verified.
After the missile strike, Jordan canceled a meeting between King Abdullah II and US President Joe Biden that was scheduled for Wednesday. The meeting, in which Egyptian head of state Abdel Fattah al-Sisi would also participate, would only take place if there was an agreement to end the war and stop “these massacres,” Foreign Minister Ayman al-Safadi told the Jordanian Al-Mamlaka TV channel.
Israel has asked its citizens to leave Turkey for fear of reprisals. The alert level for the country has been raised to the highest warning level (high threat), the National Security Council announced on Tuesday evening. All Israelis are urged to leave the country as soon as possible.
After the attack, spontaneous protests broke out in several predominantly Muslim countries. Several states announced days of mourning for the victims. In Amman, demonstrators tried to reach the Israeli embassy The Jordanian news agency Petra reported this on Tuesday evening.
Before the Israeli consulate in the Turkish metropolis of Istanbul Numerous demonstrators gathered on Tuesday evening. Some waved Palestinian flags and chanted, “Down with Israel!” according to a broadcast by the state news agency Anadolu.
In Tunisian capital Tunis Hundreds protested in front of the French embassy after the incident, state agency TAP reported. Also in Baghdad, Iraq According to eyewitnesses, hundreds gathered in the center of the city. In the southern suburbs of Beirut According to eyewitnesses, hundreds of Hezbollah supporters poured into the streets demanding that Tel Aviv be bombed.
In Iran A crowd in Tehran’s city center chanted “Down with Israel,” videos from state news agency IRNA showed. The government declared Wednesday a day of mourning. The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman strongly condemned the attack and blamed arch-enemy Israel. Well after midnight, crowds marched in front of the British Embassy, waving Palestinian flags. There were also protests in front of the French representation.
Numerous states and organizations have strongly condemned the missile attack – many without assigning blame. Others, especially Arab countries, have assigned responsibility to Israel.
The Swiss Ministry of Foreign Affairs (EDA) condemned the attack. As EDA wrote on Platform X late Tuesday evening, Switzerland is calling for a full investigation into the incident. “Following the attack on a hospital in Gaza, which killed hundreds of people, Switzerland would like to once again remind that hospitals and civilians must be protected at all times under international humanitarian law,” the FDFA said.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, has also called for a full investigation. “Those responsible must be held accountable,” he said hours after the tragedy with possibly dozens or even hundreds of victims late Wednesday evening in Geneva. He called on states with influence in the region to do everything in their power to put an end to the terrible events there. The Austrian said he had no words for the tragedy. ‘This is completely unacceptable. (…) Hospitals are inviolable and must be protected at all costs.”
UN Secretary General António Guterres was appalled: “I am shocked by the killing of hundreds of Palestinian civilians today in an attack on a hospital in Gaza, which I condemn in the strongest possible terms,” Guterres wrote on x. “My heart goes out to the families of the victims. Hospitals and medical personnel are subject to the protection of international humanitarian law.”
“Nothing can justify an attack on a hospital,” French President Macron wrote on platform X on Wednesday evening. “Nothing can justify attacking civilians.” The circumstances must be fully clarified. His thoughts are with the victims. He did not mention a specific debt. In another tweet, he called for the immediate reopening of humanitarian access to the people of Gaza.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has strongly condemned the shelling of a clinic in the Gaza Strip, blaming it on Israel. The shelling of a hospital housing women, children and innocent civilians is the latest example of Israeli attacks devoid of the most basic human values, Erdogan said on Twitter on Tuesday evening. He called on all humanity to stop this “brutality unprecedented in history.”
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has condemned the rocket attack on a hospital in the Gaza Strip – and blamed it on Israel. The Gulf state’s foreign ministry called on Wednesday evening for an immediate cessation of hostilities and that civilians and civilian facilities would not be attacked.
Morocco also condemned “in the strongest terms” the “bombing” of the hospital “by Israeli forces.” The country called for ensuring “that civilians are protected by all parties and not targeted.”
Bahrain joined the criticism of the “Israeli bombings”. The country supports “all regional and international efforts to de-escalate and end violence.”
Egypt also strongly condemned the bombings and blamed the Israeli army. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Cairo spoke on Tuesday evening of “deliberate bombing of civilians”. These are a violation “against the fundamental values of humanity.” Egypt called on the neighboring country to “immediately stop its collective punishment of the people of the Gaza Strip.”
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