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Outrage over Gaza hospital deaths, protests roil West Asia amid blame game
Hours after a deadly explosion at a Gaza hospital was said to have killed hundreds of civilians, Israeli and Palestinian officials traded blame Wednesday as outrage mounted and protests erupted across West Asia, raising the spectre of a wider regional conflict.
A view shows an area of Al-Ahli hospital where hundreds of Palestinians were killed in a blast that Israeli and Palestinian officials blamed on each other in Gaza City, October 18, 2023. (Reuters)
The Palestinians blamed an Israeli missile strike for the deaths at the Al Ahli Hospital in Gaza City – the Hamas-controlled Gaza Health Ministry put the death toll at 471 – while Israel maintained it had nothing to do with the explosion and said a rocket launched by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad had misfired and landed on the hospital, resulting in casualties.
As charges flew thick and fast and condemnation of the incident poured in from across the world, especially from outraged capitals of the region where protests raged, US President Joe Biden flew into Tel Aviv and met Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to show solidarity with Israel over its war against Hamas. He appeared to have backed Netanyahu on Israel’s claim that the explosion at the hospital was a result of a misfired rocket by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. (Read more)
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