Wednesday was declared a “day of anger” against Israel by the Lebanese Hezbollah movement. TV channel reported this i24.
Hezbollah said October 18 would be a “day of anger” against Israel. The reason for the attack was an attack on a hospital in the Gaza Strip. The movement called on citizens of Arab and Muslim countries to take to the streets in protest.
On October 17, a rocket hit a Baptist hospital in the Gaza Strip. According to the Gaza Ministry of Health, most of the victims of the bomb are women and children. In total, more than 800 people were killed and injured.
Arab countries, Iran and Türkiye immediately condemned the attack. The Palestinian prime minister called it “a terrible crime, a genocide” and said countries that support Israel also bear responsibility.
The Israeli military initially said it had no details about the explosion, but that an investigation was ongoing. The IDF has previously accused Hamas of using Palestinian civilians as human shields.
On Tuesday, Palestinian Ambassador to Britain Hussam Zomlot said the International Criminal Court (ICC) should investigate Israel’s siege of Gaza, adding that “war crimes were committed by bombing the region’s 2 million population for 10 days.”
Zomlot claims that the IDF destroyed medical and rescue teams trying to reach civilians with air strikes. writes about this Arab News.
The ambassador also called Israel’s alleged use of white phosphorus and “disproportionate, lethal” bombing a war crime, calling on ICC prosecutor Karim Khan to “get to work immediately and responsibly.”
Meanwhile, Israeli President Isaac Herzog condemned the deadly explosion at Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza City, which he said was caused by an Islamic Jihad rocket, and criticized media reports about the tragedy.
“An Islamic Jihad rocket killed scores of Palestinians in a hospital in Gaza, a place where lives needed to be saved,” Herzog wrote on social media.
According to the IDF, the explosion was caused by a “failed rocket launch” by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group.
Duke rejected accusations by Gaza officials that the IDF was responsible for the bombing.
Previously Russia requested The UN Security Council convened due to the attack on Al Ahli hospital.