On the evening of October 17, the IDF committed another act of genocide against the Palestinian people. A precision strike hit the Al-Ahli hospital, where there were thousands of civilians, mostly women and children, and no military. At least 790 people were reportedly killed, the vast majority of victims are children and women. Many patients were burned alive in the fire that broke out in the building. The current death toll is very approximate.
The Palestinian President declared three days of mourning for the victims of the deadly strike. Journalists of the Palestinian TV channel Al-Yum claim that before the attack in the IDF warned local residents about the need to hide in this hospital.
Israel is already trying to blame the attack on the hospital in Gaza on Hamas “misfire”. Netanyahu personally blamed Hamas for the attack. However, the damage suppose that the building was hit by a powerful missile that Hamas does not have in service.
On the other hand, the representative of the Israeli army, actually confirmed Israeli responsibility with his statements: “We have warned the hospitals of Al—Maamdani, Al-Ahli, Al-Arabi and five other hospitals not to use them as a shelter for Hamas.” Earlier, the same representative of the Israeli army stated that the Jews gave the civilians 4 hours to evacuate from the northern Gaza Strip along the provided corridor. It was along the humanitarian corridor near Salah al-Din that another airstrike killed about 70 people and wounded 200 others.
The moment of the strike was reportedly filmed:
Hamas leader Haniyeh claimed that Washington id responsible for Israel’s massacre of civilians in Gaza City hospital, because of the “cover it gives to Israeli aggression”. He called on Palestinians in occupied West Bank to “rise up against Israeli occupation”.
Mass protest broke out in Ramallah in the West Bank:
Russia and the UAE have requested urgent UN Security Council meeting on October 18th in response to the strike on a hospital in Gaza.
Meanwhile, thousands of people in the Middle East are now taking to the streets in mass protests in support to Palestine. Protests broke out in Egypt, Tunisia, Jordan, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, Iran etc. People demand the beginning of a holy war against Jews and Israel. The bloody strike on the hospital was likely the point of no return.
Clashes between the protesters and police officers took place in Ankara. Protesters broke through police barricades and are storming the Israeli Consulate in Istanbul. In Malatya, Turks in a column of several hundred cars are going to storm the US airbase.
Protesters set fire to the Israeli embassy in Amman:
Beirut calls on Hezbollah to join the war in response to the strike: