{"id":10205,"date":"2023-10-18T13:47:39","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T13:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/18\/anger-erupts-across-middle-east-over-gaza-hospital-blast-as-biden-arrives-in-israel\/"},"modified":"2023-10-18T13:47:39","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T13:47:39","slug":"anger-erupts-across-middle-east-over-gaza-hospital-blast-as-biden-arrives-in-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/18\/anger-erupts-across-middle-east-over-gaza-hospital-blast-as-biden-arrives-in-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Anger erupts across Middle East over Gaza hospital blast as Biden arrives in Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Protests erupted across the Middle East following the deadly explosion at a Gaza hospital, with Israeli and Palestinian officials trading accusations over who was to blame as US President Joe Biden arrived in Tel Aviv.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Hundreds of people were likely killed in the blast on Tuesday at the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in the center of Gaza City, where thousands were sheltering<strong> <\/strong>from Israeli strikes, the Palestinian Health Ministry said in a statement.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Hamas said more than 500 people were killed in the blast. The Palestinian Health Ministry said preliminary estimates indicate that between 200 to 300 people died.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Palestinian officials have blamed Israeli airstrikes for the lethal incident, but Israel has insisted it was not responsible.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      In a televised news conference Wednesday, Israeli military spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari claimed a lack of structural damage at the hospital proved the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) were not involved in the explosion. He claimed IDF intelligence showed that Palestinian Islamic Jihad \u2013 a rival Islamist militant group to Hamas in Gaza \u2013 caused the explosion when one of its rockets launched at Israel misfired.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Hagari also said the IDF had intelligence of \u201ccommunications between terrorists\u201d of rockets misfiring, which included mention of the hospital.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Islamic Jihad denied Israel\u2019s assertions describing them as \u201cfalse and baseless\u201d and claimed it does not use public facilities such as hospitals for military purposes, according to a statement Wednesday.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The blast marks a dangerous new phase in Israel\u2019s war with Hamas, which threatens to spill over regionally, and has added to fears that the humanitarian situation in Gaza is spiraling \u201cout of control.\u201d   <\/p>\n<h2 class=\"subheader\">    \u2018Unparalleled and indescribable\u2019<\/h2>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Dr. Ashraf Al-Qudra, a spokesperson for the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza, described \u201cunparalleled and indescribable\u201d scenes after the blast.<strong> <\/strong>  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      \u201cAmbulance crews are still removing body parts as most of the victims are children and women,\u201d Al-Qudra said. \u201cDoctors were performing surgeries on the ground and in the corridors, some of them without anesthesia.\u201d  <\/p>\n<div class=\"gallery-inline gallery--hidden\">\n<div class=\"gallery-inline__main\">\n<div class=\"gallery-inline__container\">\n<div class=\"gallery-inline__slides\">                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                <\/div>\n<p>        <button class=\"gallery-inline__prev-overlay\"><\/button>        <button class=\"gallery-inline__next-overlay\"><\/button>      <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5 class=\"gallery-inline__headline\">In pictures: The deadly clashes in Israel and Gaza<\/h5>\n<div class=\"gallery-inline__counter\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"gallery-inline__controls\">        <button class=\"gallery-inline__prev\">          Prev                  <\/button>        <button class=\"gallery-inline__next\">          Next                  <\/button>      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Images show women crying out and terrified children covered in black dust huddled together on the hospital floor.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Calling the deadly hospital blast \u201cunacceptable,\u201d UN Human Rights chief Volker Turk said hospitals are sacrosanct and the killings and violence must stop.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      \u201cWords fail me. Tonight, hundreds of people were killed \u2013 horrifically \u2013 in a massive strike\u2026 including patients, healthcare workers and families that had been seeking refuge in and around the hospital. Once again the most vulnerable,\u201d Turk said in a statement.  <\/p>\n<h2 class=\"subheader\">    Diplomatic fallout<\/h2>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The fallout from the blast threatens to derail US diplomatic efforts to ease the humanitarian suffering in Gaza, where concerns are mounting over Israel\u2019s deprivation of food, fuel and electricity to the enclave.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      More than a week of Israeli bombardment has killed at least 3,300 people and injured 12,500 in Gaza, according to Palestinian authorities.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      President Biden\u2019s high-security wartime visit to Tel Aviv to meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu marks his most forceful public show of support for Israel since the brutal October 7 Hamas attacks, in which the Islamist militant group killed at least 1,400 people and took more than 150 hostages, including children and the elderly.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Biden told the Israeli leader in a meeting on Wednesday that the hospital attack \u201cappears as though it was done by the other team, not you.\u201d   <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      \u201cBut there\u2019s a lot of people out there not sure,\u201d he added.  <\/p>\n<div class=\"graphic\">\n<div class=\"graphic__anchor\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Biden was scheduled to visit the Jordanian capital Amman after his trip to Tel Aviv, though a White House official said the trip was \u201cpostponed.\u201d   <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Jordan canceled a planned Wednesday summit between Biden and the leaders of Jordan, Egypt and the Palestinian Authority. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas pulled out of the meeting earlier Tuesday in the immediate aftermath of the explosion.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      \u201cThere is no point in doing anything at this time other than stopping this war,\u201d Jordan\u2019s Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi told Al Jazeera Arabic early Wednesday. \u201cThere is no benefit to anyone in holding a summit at this time.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Several nations, including Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates have released statements condemning Israel following the explosion. Pakistan called it \u201cinhumane and indefensible\u201d and Palestinian observer to the UN Riyad Mansour said Israeli officials were being dishonest in blaming Islamic Jihad.  <\/p>\n<h2 class=\"subheader\">    Anger spreads <\/h2>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The blast has added fuel to rising anger in the region over Israel\u2019s actions in Gaza.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Protests condemning the hospital explosion have erupted in multiple cities across the Middle East and North Africa, including in Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, Iran and Tunisia. Protests also rocked the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah as demonstrators clashed with Palestinian security forces.  <\/p>\n<h2 class=\"subheader\">    Nowhere is safe<\/h2>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The hospital tragedy comes as health services in Gaza are on the brink, with no fuel to run electricity or pump water for life-saving critical functions. UN agencies have warned that stores are less than a week away from running out of food stocks and that Gaza\u2019s last seawater desalination plant had shut down, bringing the risk of further deaths, dehydration and waterborne diseases.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      While the IDF has said it does not target hospitals, the UN and Doctors Without Borders say Israeli airstrikes have struck medical facilities, including hospitals and ambulances.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Conditions are dire for the 2.2 million people caught in the escalating crisis and now trapped in Gaza and those on the ground warn that nowhere is safe from relentless Israeli airstrikes and the rapidly deteriorating humanitarian situation.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Urgent calls for help are mounting and diplomatic efforts to secure a humanitarian corridor out of Gaza have ramped up in recent days.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who has led intense efforts across the Middle East, on Tuesday said the US and Israel \u201chave agreed to develop a plan that will enable humanitarian aid from donor nations and multilateral organizations to reach civilians in Gaza.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      But officials have said the Rafah border crossing \u2013 the only entry point in and out of Gaza that Israel does not control \u2013 remains extremely dangerous.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      \u201cUntil now, there is no safe passage that has been granted,\u201d he said, as they do not \u201chave any authorization or clear, secure routes for those convoys.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      He added that the crossing was bombed four times in the past few days.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The situation in Gaza is now spiraling \u201cout of control,\u201d World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned on Wednesday.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Tedros said that WHO\u2019s supplies have been stuck at the border for four days, adding \u201cevery second we wait to get medical aid in, we lose lives.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protests erupted across the Middle East following the deadly explosion at a Gaza hospital, with Israeli and Palestinian officials trading accusations over who was to blame as US President Joe Biden arrived in Tel Aviv. Hundreds of people were likely killed in the blast on Tuesday at the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in the center of <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10206,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10205","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}