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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 several thousands of civilians, mostly women and children, and no military.

The latest casualty toll is at least 790 people reportedly killed, and over 1,000 injured, the vast majority of victims are children and women, with the toll increasing by the hour. Many patients were burned alive in the fire that broke out in the building. The current death toll is very approximate.

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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.

The hospital was founded by the Church Mission Society of the Church of England. Later it was managed by the medical mission of the Southern Baptist Church. That was between the years of 1954-1982. 

Since the early 1980s, the Evangelical Episcopal Church of Jerusalem has taken over the hospital’s management. 

Al-Ahli hospital, which used to be called Al-Mamadani, is headquartered in Al-Zaytoon neighborhood, south of Gaza City. It is one of the major medical centers in all of Gaza, as it provides medical support for thousands of Palestinians, especially poor, working-class families. 

In the early days of the Israeli war on Gaza, Israel warned various hospitals, including Al-Ahli that they must evacuate, and that hospitals will be bombed.

The management of various hospitals in the Strip, however, refused to evacuate, due to the critical conditions of thousands of Palestinian civilians who have been targeted by Israeli bombs since the start of the war on October 7. 

On Saturday, Israel reportedly bombed the hospital’s Diagnostic Cancer Treatment Center. 

Palestinians then began sounding the alarm that Israel is serious about its threats to target Palestinian hospitals. 

The issue became more urgent when thousands of Palestinian civilians took shelter in Al-Ahli and other hospitals. 

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.

“According to UN figures, 545 children were killed in Ukraine in 500 days of war.

Over a 1,000 children in Gaza have been killed in 10 days by Israel.

Over a 1,000 children in 10 days.”pic.twitter.com/2sJ7DCLsXW

— sarah (@sahouraxo) October 17, 2023

 

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:

 

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