Israel-Palestine War LIVE Updates: IDF Says 'Clear Evidence' Shows Gazan Jihadists Behind Hospital Blast; Iran Calls for Sanctions Against Israel

Egypt President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi announced a three-day period of national mourning in response to the explosion at the Al-Ahli hospital in Gaza, where hundreds of people lost their lives, CNN reported.

Pope Francis said the possible widening of the conflict in the Middle East is disturbing.

Israel said on Wednesday it has proof that it did not cause the blast at the Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City which led to the deaths of over 500 people, including children, elderly and hospital staff.

Israel then released a series of videos of the blast. The first video showed the hospital and the surroundings before and after being hit by the rocket. READ MORE

Israel has told its citizens to leave Turkey immediately amid fears of reprisal attacks after a deadly strike on a hospital in the Gaza Strip, a consular spokesperson confirmed to AFP Wednesday.

“All Israelis staying in Turkey must leave as soon as possible,” Israel’s National Security Council announced late on Tuesday.

President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt suggested Israel to relocate civilians from Palestine to the desert in Nakab in Israel till it finishes its operations with Hamas and other Islamist militias, CNN reported.

Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah condemned Israel for the attack and declared “a day of unprecedented anger” against Israel and the visit of U.S. President Biden to the country, CNN reported.

The Israel Foreign Ministry shared “evidence” claiming that it is not behind the strike on Gaza hospital.

US President Joe Biden on Wednesday said he believed that the explosion at Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza Strip was caused by the ‘other team’ during his meeting with Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. READ MORE

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said all Islamic countries must sanction and implement an oil embargo on Israel, in addition to expelling Israeli ambassadors, according to Jerusalem Post.

“A failed rocket launch by the Islamic Jihad terrorist organization hit the Al Ahli hospital in Gaza City. IAF footage from the area around the hospital before and after the failed rocket launch by the Islamic Jihad terrorist organization,” the IDF said in a post on X. The post also included a video of before and after footage of before-after footage of Gaza Hospital bombing.

President Joe Biden said on Wednesday that an explosion that killed hundreds in a Gaza Strip hospital appears to not have been caused by Israel. Based on what I’ve seen, it appears as though it was done by the other team, not you, Biden told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a meeting.

But Biden said there were a lot of people out there who weren’t sure what caused the blast. The Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry said an Israeli airstrike caused the destruction. The Israeli military denied involvement and blamed a misfired rocket from the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, another militant group. However, that organisation also rejected responsibility.

Biden was also scheduled to visit Jordan after stopping in Israel, but the meetings were called off after the explosion at the hospital.

The Left parties on Wednesday condemned the attack on a hospital in Gaza that killed hundreds of people, with the Communist Party of India (Marxist) calling it a “war crime” and “genocide”. “The bombing of a Gaza hospital late last night that has killed at least 500 Palestinians needs to be called out for what it is – a war crime. Stop this genocide,” the CPI(M) said in a post on ‘X’.

The party’s general secretary Sitaram Yechury said the world must wake up to declare this a criminal war crime and take appropriate action. CPI(ML)-New Democracy, a breakaway from the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist), called for protests from October 18 to October 21 and also demanded that the Indian government condemn the attack.

“US president is visiting Israel today which fully exposes the hypocrisy of US Admn. of supporting human rights and respecting humanitarian law. In fact the only thing they care is their imperialist interests…,” the CPI(ML)-New Democracy alleged in a statement.

Hours after a deadly blast at a civilian hospital in the besieged Gaza Strip killed hundreds of people, Israel on Wednesday claimed that a lack of a crater at the blast site proves that it was not an air strike by its forces as claimed by Hamas-run Health Ministry. A massive explosion at the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital late on Tuesday night killed at least 500 people, Gaza’s Hamas-run Health Ministry said.

Apart from the large number of in-house patients at the hospital, there were hundreds of Palestinians who had taken refuge at the hospital over the last two to three days after Israel had asked civilians from the northern Gaza Strip areas to move south. The Palestinians taking refuge at the hospital had hoped that they would be spared Israel’s bombardment.

Asserting that Israel wasn’t behind the strike, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) published drone footage that it said proves that the deadly blast at the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital’s parking lot was not caused by its ordnance, which it said, would have left a crater and not a burning parking lot and shrapnel-pocked roofs

Expressing shock over the tragic loss of lives in an attack on an hospital in Gaza, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said civilian casualties in the ongoing conflict were a matter of serious concern and those involved should be held responsible. According to media reports, Hamas group said a massive explosion at the al-Ahli hospital in Gaza killed hundreds of people Tuesday. Hamas attributed the blast to an Israeli air strike, but the Israeli military said it was not involved and the explosion was caused by a misfired Palestinian rocket.

“Deeply shocked at the tragic loss of lives at the Al Ahli Hospital in Gaza. Our heartfelt condolences to the families of the victims, and prayers for speedy recovery of those injured,” Modi said on X. “Civilian casualties in the ongoing conflict are a matter of serious and continuing concern. Those involved should be held responsible,” the prime minister said.

US President Joe Biden said that based on what he has seen, the Gaza hospital attack that reportedly killed over 500 people appears to have been done “by the other team”.

“I’m deeply saddened and outraged by the explosion at the hosp”ital in Gaza yesterday. Based on what I’ve seen, it appears as though it was done by the other team, not you. But there’s a lot of people out there not sure, so we have to overcome a lot of things,” Biden said. READ HERE

Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who received US President Joe Biden in Tel Aviv on Wednesday, said after meeting him that, “…On Oct 7 Hamas murdered 1,400 Israelis in a single day….October 7th, is another day that will live in infamy. Mr President, you rightly said that Hamas is worse than ISIS. The civilised world must unite to defeat Hamas…”

Shifa Hospital, where hundreds of victims of the al-Ahli Hospital blast were taken, will run out of fuel on Wednesday unless more supplies enter the Gaza Strip, the hospital’s general director says.

The hospital, Gaza’s largest, is stretched far beyond its capacity following the al-Ahli explosion, Mohammed Abu Selmia said Wednesday, adding that health workers were still treating severely wounded patients.

“They are all in a terrible situation,” he told The Associated Press. “A young woman whose limbs were amputated, a child whose intestines came out, many others have had limb amputations, bleeding in the brain, bleeding in the liver and spleen.”

He said earlier that doctors were performing operations on the floor without anesthesia and that a shortage of essential medical supplies was an urgent issue.

wo women from Kerala working as caregivers of an elderly couple in Israel also became their lifesavers during the October 7 attack on that country by insurgents from the Hamas outfit, which controls Gaza. The Israeli Embassy in India, in a post on social media platform X, has hailed the two Keralites — Sabitha and Meera Mohanan — as “Indian superwomen”.

It also shared the viral video of Sabitha in which she narrates what happened on October 7 when Hamas group launched a surprise attack on Israel. In her video message, Sabitha vividly describes the harrowing incident when she and Mohanan bravely protected themselves and the elderly couple they were caring for. Gripping the door handle of the safety room inside the house tightly, they courageously held on, preventing the attackers from breaking in despite the hail of bullets coming their way.

Of the elderly couple they were taking care of, the woman was suffering from ALS disease, she said. Recounting the sequence of events that unfolded on that day, Sabitha said that around 6.30 am they heard sirens and ran into the safety room.

PDP president Mehbooba Mufti Wednesday condemned the attack on a hospital in Gaza which killed at least 500 people. Gaza’s Hamas-run Health Ministry blamed an Israeli airstrike for the explosion, but Israel said the blast was caused by a misfired Palestinian rocket. Sharing a video report on Tuesday’s explosion in Al-Ahli hospital on X, Mehbooba urged the “powers that be” to not be “mute bystanders”.

The US and other countries are watching as mute spectators. If it continues as such, then peace in the world peace will be affected, because you are pushing the people to the wall, she said. The former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister said it is time that the Palestine issue is resolved.

“Deeply shocked at the tragic loss of lives at the Al Ahli Hospital in Gaza. Our heartfelt condolences to the families of the victims, and prayers for speedy recovery of those injured. Civilian casualties in the ongoing conflict are a matter of serious and continuing concern. Those involved should be held responsible,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi wrote on X.