Over 70 Palestinians were killed, and hundreds were wounded in an Israeli airstrike that targeted several houses in Rafah and Khan Younis
Israel dropped phosphorus bombs and targeted civilians on the southern Lebanese border, with several casualties reported
The head of the US Central Command arrived in Israel to meet with Israeli defense officials and discuss their needs
Fadavi also warned that more attacks against Israel could occur if the Israeli attacks on Gaza persist.
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An Israeli airstrike on Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in the Gaza Strip has left at least 500 people dead, a spokesman for the health ministry in the besieged enclave said on Tuesday.
If confirmed, the attack on the al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City would be by far the deadliest Israeli airstrike in five wars fought since 2008.
The Israeli military says it is looking into the report.
Photos from al-Ahli Hospital showed fire engulfing the hospital halls, shattered glass and body parts scattered across the area.
Several hospitals in Gaza City have become refuges for hundreds of people, hoping they would be spared bombardment after Israel ordered all residents of the city and surrounding areas to evacuate to the southern Gaza Strip.
Israeli military spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said there were still no details on the hospital deaths: “We will get the details and update the public. I don’t know to say whether it was an Israeli air strike.”
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas declared three days of mourning following the deadly airstrike on the hospital in Gaza.
“What is taking place is genocide. We call on the international community to intervene immediately to stop this massacre. Silence is no longer acceptable,” a statement issued by the Palestinian Liberation Organization said in response to the attack.
Around 3,000 people have been killed in Israeli air strikes across the Gaza Strip since the war erupted on October 7.
More than 1,400 people in Israel have been killed, the majority gunned down by Hamas militants who crossed from Gaza and attacked border communities.
An Israeli airstrike on Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in the Gaza Strip has left at least 500 people dead, a spokesman for the health ministry in the besieged enclave said on Tuesday.
If confirmed, the attack on the al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City would be by far the deadliest Israeli airstrike in five wars fought since 2008.
US responsible for the attack on a Gaza hospita.l Ismail Haniyeh
The United States is responsible for the attack on a Gaza hospital that killed hundreds of Palestinians, Palestinian Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh said in a televised speech late on Tuesday, stressing that Washington gave Israel “the cover for its aggression.”
“The hospital massacre confirms the enemy’s brutality and the extent of his feeling of defeat,” he said, adding that the attack will be “a new turning point.”
Haniyeh called on all Palestinian people “to get out and confront the occupation and the settlers.” He also called on all Arabs, and Muslims to stage protests against Israel.
Several countries on Tuesday denounced an Israeli airstrike on a Gaza hospital
Several countries on Tuesday denounced an Israeli airstrike on a Gaza hospital that killed hundreds of Palestinians.
Egypt condemned the attack and said the international community must urgently intervene to stop such violations.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the Israeli strike on the hospital in Gaza was “horrific and absolutely unacceptable.”
Trudeau told reporters that “it’s not acceptable to hit a hospital.”
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the attack on the Gaza hospital was “the latest example of Israel’s attacks devoid of the most basic human values.”
“I call on all humanity to take action to stop this unprecedented brutality in Gaza,” Erdogan wrote on social media platform X.
Qatar’s foreign ministry issued a statement strongly condemning the Israeli airstrike on the hospital in Gaza.
“The expansion of Israeli attacks over the Gaza Strip to include hospitals, schools, and other population centers is a dangerous escalation,” the statement said.
Iran’s foreign ministry strongly condemned the Israeli airstrike on the that it said killed and injured hundreds of “unarmed and defenseless people.”
Several hospitals in Gaza City have become refuges for hundreds of people, hoping they would be spared bombardment after Israel ordered all residents of the city and surrounding areas to evacuate to the southern Gaza Strip.
Israeli military spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said there were still no details on the hospital deaths: “We will get the details and update the public. I don’t know to say whether it was an Israeli air strike.”
Jordan’s foreign ministry issued a statement on Tuesday strongly condemning Israel’s attack on a hospital in Gaza.
The statement stressed the need to provide international protection for the Palestinian people and called on immediately joining efforts to stop the war from raging in Gaza.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas declared three days of mourning following the deadly airstrike on the hospital in Gaza.
The Israeli military says it is looking into the report.
Photos from al-Ahli Hospital showed fire engulfing the hospital halls, shattered glass and body parts scattered across the area.
Several hospitals in Gaza City have become refuges for hundreds of people, hoping they would be spared bombardment after Israel ordered all residents of the city and surrounding areas to evacuate to the southern Gaza Strip.
Israeli military spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said there were still no details on the hospital deaths: “We will get the details and update the public. I don’t know to say whether it was an Israeli air strike.”
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas declared three days of mourning following the deadly airstrike on the hospital in Gaza.
“What is taking place is genocide. We call on the international community to intervene immediately to stop this massacre. Silence is no longer acceptable,” a statement issued by the Palestinian Liberation Organization said in response to the attack.
Around 3,000 people have been killed in Israeli air strikes across the Gaza Strip since the war erupted on October 7.
More than 1,400 people in Israel have been killed, the majority gunned down by Hamas militants who crossed from Gaza and attacked border communities.
Palestinian militant group Hamas said Tuesday one of the top leaders of its armed wing was killed in an Israeli strike in the Gaza Strip.
“Ayman Nofal, ‘Abu Ahmad,’ a member of the general military council and commander of the central command in Al-Qassam Brigades, was killed” in an Israeli strike on the central Gaza Strip, Hamas said in a statement, referring to its military wing.
The Israeli military did not immediately confirm the killing when contacted by AFP.
Israel has bombarded Hamas-ruled Gaza in retaliation for raids by the militants on October 7, the deadliest attacks in the country’s history.
More than 1,400 people have been killed in Israel and more than 2,700 in Gaza, according to officials on both sides.
Israel has evacuated many of its border communities during the ongoing hostilities, while it has been impossible for Gaza’s 2.4 million residents to leave the Palestinian territory.
Over 70 Palestinians were killed, and hundreds were wounded in an Israeli airstrike that targeted several houses in Rafah and Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, the official Palestinian WAFA news agency reported on Tuesday.
Citing its correspondent, the state news agency said that 28 civilians, including children and women, were killed in a bombing on a five-story house, and dozens were injured.
Warplanes reportedly also bombed a house west of the city of Khan Younis, which killed 10 citizens, including children, and wounded others who were seeking shelter in a school near the bombing.
Six others were killed in a house bombing southeast of Khan Younis, according to reports from WAFA. Many wounded civilians were transported to Nasser hospital in Khan Younis.
The state news agency reported a number of homes and residential buildings were bombed in the neighborhoods of Gaza City, killing several in the Al-Nasr and Deir Al-Balah areas.
Authorities in Gaza say at least 2,837 people have been killed in Israeli strikes so far, with a quarter of them being children – and nearly 10,000 have been wounded.
More than 1,300 Israelis and foreign nationals were killed in the October 7 attack on Israel by Hamas militants, the deadliest in the state’s 75-year history.
Israel dropped phosphorus bombs and targeted civilians on the southern Lebanese border, with several casualties reported, Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) said on Tuesday.
The air strikes hit the al-Dhahira town directly, killing multiple civilians and injuring several others who were transported to nearby hospitals, the news agency added.
Israeli forces also fired dozens of flare bombs at Lebanon, NNA reported.
The Israeli army had in a statement said it was “striking military targets of the terrorist organization Hezbollah on Lebanese territory.”
Since the October 7 assault by Hamas, clashes on the Israel-Lebanon border have left at least 10 people dead on the Lebanese side, including a Reuters journalist and several civilians.
On the Israeli side, at least two people died.
The international community fears an escalation of the conflict between the Iran-backed Lebanese Hezbollah, an ally of Hamas, and the Israeli army.
Here to ensure Israel has what it needs’: US CENTCOM Commander arrives in Israel
The head of the US Central Command arrived in Israel to meet with Israeli defense officials and discuss their needs amid the war against Palestinian militant group Hamas.
CENTCOM said Gen. Michael Kurilla will meet with IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, and others, “to gain a clear understanding of Israel’s defense requirements, outline US support efforts to avoid expansion of the conflict and reiterate the Department of Defense’s ironclad support for Israel.”
“I’m here to ensure that Israel has what it needs to defend itself and am particularly focused on avoiding other parties expanding the conflict,” General Kurilla said.
CENTCOM had sent the USS Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group to the Eastern Mediterranean Sea “in order to deter any actor seeking to escalate the situation or widen this war.” Efforts to increase US posture continue, including the rapid movement into theater of US Air Force F-15s, F-16s and A-10s to augment existing fighter squadrons in the region.
General Kurilla said: “The arrival of these highly capable forces to the region is a strong signal of deterrence should any actor hostile to Israel consider trying to take advantage of this situation.”
Additionally, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin directed the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group (CSG) to begin moving to the Eastern Mediterranean. The action came as part of US efforts to “deter hostile actions against Israel or any efforts toward widening this war following Hamas’s attack on Israel.”
Austin stated: “The increases to US force posture signal the US’ ironclad commitment to Israel’s security and our resolve to deter any state or non-state actor seeking to escalate this war.”
Iran says its allies won’t stop attacking Israel until it ceases to exist
Ali Fadavi, the second-in-command of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), likened Israel to a “cancerous tumor,” saying: “The resistance forces’ shocks against (Israel) will continue until this cancerous tumor disappears from the world map.”
Iran commonly uses terms like “resistance forces,” “resistance groups,” “resistance front,” and “resistance axis” to refer to a network of regional militant groups that it supports. This network includes organizations like the Palestinian militant group Hamas, Lebanon’s Hezbollah, as well as various militias in Iraq and Syria, and the Houthi militia in Yemen.
Fadavi also warned that more attacks against Israel could occur if the Israeli attacks on Gaza persist.
“If the crimes continue in Gaza, the Muslim people of other countries may join the conflict against the Zionists and another shock may be on the way,” the semi-official Fars news agency quoted him as saying.
Fadavi said that Israel has not fully recovered from what he described as a “huge defeat” suffered at the hands of Hamas during a surprise attack on October 7. On that day, Hamas fighters breached Gaza’s heavily fortified border with Israel and killed at least 1,400 people, most of them civilians.