Amman, Jordan – AFP Around 5,000 Jordanians gathered outside the Israeli embassy in Amman Wednesday to protest the deaths of hundreds of people in an Israeli strike on a Gaza hospital. Security forces blocked off roads leading to the embassy but the size of the demonstration looked set to swell amid a wave of anger […]
Gaza City, Palestinian Territories- AFP At least 3,478 people have been killed in the Gaza Strip since Israel began bombarding the coastal enclave, the Hamas-controlled health ministry said Wednesday. More than 12,000 others have been wounded in Israel’s response to a brutal assault launched by Hamas militants on Israel on October 7.
Tel Aviv, Israel-AFP President Joe Biden on a visit to Israel Wednesday backed his ally’s stance blaming Palestinian fighters for a strike on a hospital that killed hundreds in war-torn Gaza and has inflamed anger across the Middle East. Arab countries blamed Israel, which has rained bombs on Gaza since the bloody October 7 attack [&hell...
Paris, France – OCTOBER 18, 2023 09:54:06 GMT – AFP A strike on a Gaza hospital compound which health officials there said killed hundreds has provoked outrage and condemnation from around the world, with protests on the streets of Amman, Tunis, Beirut and Tehran. Hamas, which runs the territory, accused Israel of being behind the ...
LONDON (AA) – The strike on Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza is “totally unacceptable”, the UN’s human rights chief said Tuesday. In a written statement, Volker Turk noted that the most vulnerable were killed once again, including patients, healthcare workers and families that had been seeking refuge in and around the hospita...
– LONDON (AA) – A Human Rights Watch (HRW) official has said that the bombing of the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza is “yet another war crime committed by the Israeli army, in a list that keeps getting longer, and longer, and longer.” “When will Western powers open their eyes and pressure their ally to […]
– LONDON (AA) – England’s top cleric, the archbishop of Canterbury, has decried the “devastating loss of innocent lives” from an airstrike on the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza, a facility run by the Anglican Church. “This is an appalling and devastating loss of innocent lives. The Ahli hospital is run by the Anglican...
NEW YORK (AA) – The UN Security Council will convene an emergency meeting Wednesday to address the attack on Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza. According to a statement from a UN spokesperson, the meeting is scheduled for 10 a.m. (1400GMT) and will be conducted in an open debate format. A draft resolution from Brazil calling […]
WASHINGTON (AA) – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has strongly condemned Tuesday’s deadly attack on the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza which left hundreds of people dead. “I am horrified by the killing of hundreds of Palestinian civilians in a strike on a hospital in Gaza today, which I strongly condemn,” Guterres sai...
Occupied Palestinian Territories — AFP/AA Health officials in Gaza have said that more than 500 people were killed in an air strike on a hospital compound which sheltered the wounded and displaced from Israeli bombing, prompting condemnation and fury in the Middle East and beyond. According to the Palestinian health ministry, Israel was ...
