Photo: AP Photo/Abed KhaledIsrael and Hamas blame each other for the deaths of hundreds of people after a hospital in Gaza was hit. The peace mission of US President Joe Biden, who arrives in Tel Aviv today, failed before it began
Hell in hell. This is how one could describe the scenes of suffering after the Al Ahli Arab Baptist Hospital in Gaza City was hit. There were about 4.000 people in it, not only patients, but also those who sought shelter there, believing that they were safe in the hospital from Israeli airstrikes. The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced that at least 500 people had been killed and that many were under the rubble.
Hamas accused Israel of this crime.
The Israeli army claims that it was a missile fired at Israel by the Islamic Jihad organization and that it fell immediately after launch. These claims were supported by the Israeli military command with alleged evidence that it sent to the media. "We are not targeting hospitals," repeated officials in Tel Aviv.
"Analysis of our operational systems shows that terrorists fired multiple rockets in Gaza and that they passed in close proximity to the hospital when it was hit." "The intelligence we have from multiple sources indicates that Islamic Jihad was responsible for the failed rocket launch that hit the hospital in Gaza," the Israeli military said in a statement.
Mark Regev, a senior adviser to the Israeli prime minister, told the BBC that Israeli authorities are looking into exactly what happened and stressed that their army would never "deliberately target a hospital".
"We know from past clashes with terrorists in Gaza that on average every third rocket they fire at us lands in Gaza," Regev said.
Protests across the Arab world
Israel, however, has fired thousands of missiles into the Gaza Strip since October 7, many of which destroyed civilian targets and killed around 3.000 and wounded countless people. After the hospital was hit, protests against "Israeli war crimes" are organized across the Arab world. The Jewish state is accused of "genocide" and an attempt at "ethnic cleansing".
Most of the victims in Al Ahli Hospital are displaced Palestinian families, patients, children, women, medical staff.
Because of the "Israeli bombing" of the hospital and the killing of hundreds of people, the President of Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas, declared three days of mourning in the West Bank. In the statement published by his office, it is stated that in the hospital, in addition to patients, there were several thousand displaced people, who believed that they would be safe there.
Abbas canceled the meeting with US President Joe Biden that was scheduled for today in Jordan. The king of Jordan, as well as the president of Egypt and several regional leaders, canceled their hospitality after the affected hospital. Thus, Biden's peace mission failed even before he landed in Tel Aviv, from where he was supposed to fly to Amman. After the latest bloodshed, not a single Arab leader can afford to meet with the American president, who has provided "unwavering" support to Israel since the beginning of the conflict.
Regardless of who actually hit the Gaza hospital, the perception of Jews and rap about it will not change.
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