Hundreds Killed in Bombing That Destroys Hospital in Gaza Strip

At least 200 people were killed on Tuesday and hundreds suffered injuries of varying severity in a bombing of a hospital in the Gaza Strip that the Ministry of Health of that Palestinian territory and other countries in the region attributed to Israel, while the government of Benjamin Netanyahu denied responsibility for the attack and blamed another Palestinian armed group. The attack was the bloodiest since Israel launched a relentless bombing campaign against Gaza in retaliation for a devastating Hamas assault on southern Israeli communities on Oct. 7, the British news agency Reuters reported in its Spanish-language service. Local sources quoted by the Palestinian news agency Ma’an said that a fire broke out in the hospital after the shelling. According to a spokesman for the Ministry of Health, consulted by the Turkish Anadolu news agency, the casualties would be more than 500.The president of the Palestinian National Authority (PA), Mahmoud Abbas, who controls the other Palestinian territory of the West Bank, declared three days of mourning after the bombing of the Arab hospital, which he described as a “massacre”, according to the official Palestinian news agency Wafa.The bombing comes on the eve of a visit by the president of the United States. The United States, Joe Biden, to Israel to show his support for the country in its war against Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip Gaza.De however, Biden’s already complicated trip to Israel and Jordan became even more difficult after the bombing of the hospital. In this regard, on Tuesday afternoon the White House reported that Biden canceled his planned stop in Jordan after a visit to Israel in the wake of the attack on the hospital, which left some 500 Palestinians dead. The Israeli military, for its part, denied responsibility for an attack on a Gaza hospital, saying military intelligence suggests the hospital was hit by a failed rocket fire by the enclave’s Islamic Jihad militant group.

Original source in Spanish