The Hamas militant group blamed the blast on an Israeli air strike, while Israel’s military blamed a rocket misfired by other Palestinian…
Doctors in Gaza City are desperately trying to save severely injured victims of a massive explosion that killed hundreds of Palestinians sheltering in a hospital
Hundreds of Palestinians had taken refuge in al-Ahli and other hospitals in Gaza City, hoping they would be spared bombardment after Israel ordered all residents of the city and surrounding areas to evacuate to the southern Gaza Strip. Doctors in the overwhelmed hospital resorted to performing surgery on floors and in corridors, mostly without anaesthesia.
Hamas called Tuesday’s hospital blast “a horrific massacre”, saying it was caused by an Israeli strike. He also shared aerial footage collected by a military drone which showed a blast that he said was inconsistent with Israeli weaponry. He said the explosion occurred in the building’s car park, and noted that the death toll could not be confirmed.
Before the al-Alhi hospital deaths, Israeli strikes on Gaza had killed at least 2,778 people, nearly two-thirds of them children, and wounded 9,700 others, according to the Gaza health ministry. The king “warned that this war, which has entered a dangerous phase, will plunge the region into an unspeakable disaster”, the statement said.Throughout the day on Tuesday, air strikes killed dozens of civilians and at least one senior Hamas figure in the southern half of the Gaza Strip, where the Israeli military told fleeing Palestinians to go.
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