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'Even more than Joe #Biden ’s emotional words of support, the photo of him hugging the #Israeli PM #Netanyahu has placed him solidly in #Israel ’s corner at the most explosive moment in its war with #Hamas
No matter who fired the rocket which killed hundreds of people at the Al-#Ahli hospital in #Gaza , this image will reinforce Arab anger not only towards Israel, but the US.'
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“Every civilian death is a tragedy. And too many lives have been lost following #Hamas ’ horrific act of terror.
"The attack on Al-#Ahli Hospital should be a watershed moment for leaders in the region and across the world to come together to avoid further dangerous escalation of conflict."
Israel was immediately blamed by #Hamas but the Israel Defense Forces #IDF said the blast was caused by a misfired #Palestinian militant rocket
A range of Arab countries joined Hamas in blaming Israel for the explosion, and some Arab leaders cancelled meetings with Biden
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67144061
#Israel #hamas
Gaza hospital: What video, pictures and other evidence tell us about Al-Ahli hospital blast
BBC Verify is analysing evidence from the Al-Ahli hospital explosion amid competing claims over responsibility.By Paul Brown, Joshua Cheetham, Sean Seddon and Daniele Palumbo (BBC News)
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Showing a diagram of the ( #Ahli ) #hospital, he says there is no such damage - "the walls stay intact".
He says this is because the blast was caused by an Islamic Jihad #PIJ rocket, which "failed to launch" properly and was "misfired".
As a reminder, #Hamas and #Palestinian authorities have blamed #Israel for the blast at the hospital
"They went as far as inflating the numbers of casualties," he says. "They understood with absolute certainty that it was a rocket misfired by Islamic Jihad that damaged the ( #Ahli ) #hospital ."
He says aerial footage confirms there was no direct hit to the hospital itself and there was no damage to nearby buildings.
He says a barrage of rockets were fired by #Hamas to #Israel at 18:15 local time on Tuesday - before the hospital blast.
Then, at 18:59, he says a barage of around 10 rockets was fired by PiJ from a nearby cemetery. At the same time, there were reports of an explosion at the hospital in #Gaza City, he says.
Joe #Biden ’s personal intervention was always a gamble. The destruction of Al #Ahli #hospital makes it even more difficult.
He wants simultaneously to protect and support #Israel , and alleviate the humanitarian catastrophe among #Gaza ’s civilians.
Israel insists the hospital was destroyed by #Palestinian Islamic Jihad #PIJ , a faction that is smaller than #Hamas and closer to #Iran .
#Hamas says an #Israeli air strike hit the hospital. #Israel says the blast was caused by rockets misfired by another group, #Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and both sides deny blame.
The #BBC is working to verify what happened.
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"It is absolute horror show which is unfolding," Canon Richard Sewell, dean of St George’s College, told #BBC. "There is also no justification for this type of attack." #Hamas have blamed an Israeli air strike, Israel denied its military was involved
"Hospitals should be sanctuaries to preserve human life, not scenes of death and destruction," says ICRC.
"No patient should be killed in a hospital bed. No doctors should lose their lives while trying to save patients."
#Hamas have blamed an #Israeli air strike.
But Israel denied its military was involved and said the blast was caused by rockets fired by Palestinian Islamic Jihad
The #Hamas-led authorities in Gaza say 500 people died in the explosion at the Al Ahli hospital. Hamas blamed #Israel , which in turn blamed #Palestinian militants
But, he goes on "still a few hundred thousand that need to - and should - go".
Conricus claims #Hamas - which told people to stay put - had a "delaying effect" on people leaving the area, but he is confident that the more time goes on, the more the militant group will stop using "its own civilians as human shields"
The South Korean military says it has been monitoring signs that North #Korea supplied #Hamas with weapons used in its attack on #Israel , a military official said in a background briefing to domestic reporters.
The official also suggested that the Hamas tactic of incursion by motorised paragliders could have originated in North Korea, pointing to the regime’s reinforced air infiltration training using paragliders.
Hugo Bachega: Hezbollah - a #Lebanese military, political, and social movement - has long been seen by #Israel as a more formidable force than #Hamas
The heavily armed Iranian-backed group has an estimated 130,000 rockets and missiles, according to the CSIS. Most of this arsenal is made up of small, man-portable and unguided surface-to-surface artillery rockets. But it also includes anti-aircraft and anti-ship missiles, (cont.)
However, we can rely on the fact that it has an accurate, long list of Hamas targets that it will go after as soon as it gets boots on the ground.
#Israel insists its warplanes and artillery are striking #Hamas targets in #Gaza. But many civilians are indeed being killed and injured in those strikes.
#Palestinians say that is because the #Israeli strikes are excessive and indiscriminate. #Israel says it is because #Hamas uses civilians as human shields (in #Gaza )
James Landale: The main reason why many countries are not urging #Israel to stop its airstrikes is because they accept the country has been attacked by #Hamas and has a right to defend itself. Where they are urging restraint is about how Israel defends itself. The United Nations too has urged Israel to avoid civilian casualties. UN Sec Gen Guterres said a few days ago: "International humanitarian law and human rights law must be respected (cont )
It will doubtless attempt to kill many more.
Questions may arise about the organisation's political leadership - which lives in #Qatar and #Lebanon - who, some say, were unaware of the military wing's plans to attack inside #Israel
Paul Adams: #Israel did not consider itself at war with Hamas before 7 October, despite previous rounds of conflict stretching back many years. For Israel, this was an act of terrorism, not war. Benjamin Netanyahu's government is pursuing justice in its own way (cont.)
#Egypt 's current regime has relations with #Hamas, and has in the past been the link between Hamas and #Israel . But it does not want an influx of #Palestinian refugees.
The camps in Gaza still exist 75 years after they were established to house refugees - forced out by newly independent Israel - who have never been allowed home.
Hamas has its roots in the Muslim Brotherhood, an organisation founded in Egypt a century ago. The Brotherhood wants to reshape states and society in line with Islamic teaching and belief. (Cont.)
Frank Gardner: The reason given at the time by Hamas spox was that "enough is enough". The attack, he said, was in response to what Hamas called constant provocations and humiliations suffered by #Palestinians at the hands of #Israelis in both #Gaza and the West Bank. Analysts believe there may have been other, undeclared reasons. Before the attack, Israel and #Saudi Arabia were well on the way to normalising ties. (Cont.)
A military onslaught can destroy its metal and concrete but not the mettle of the people whose resolve to die for their cause will only harden.
Joe Biden will visit #Israel on Wednesday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced. Biden will coordinate with #Israeli partners to secure the release of hostages taken by #Hamas, and hear from Israel how it would conduct its operations in a way that minimises civilian casualties and allow #humanitarian aid to flow into #Gaza in a way that does not benefit Hamas
#Hamas's military wing says it has fired a "barrage of rockets" at #Jerusalem and Tel Aviv - with sirens sending lawmakers to bomb shelters
UN aid chief says #Gaza 's health system and hospitals are "collapsing before our eyes" without water, fuel and medical supplies
#Rafah crossing from Egypt into Gaza has been hit by an air strike - the extent of the damage is unclear
Nr of people #Israel believes are being held hostage in up from 155 to 199
In a phone call w Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, Mahmoud Abbas also called the PLO the "sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people," WAFA said.
He "affirmed his rejection of the killing of civilians on both sides and called for the release of civilians, prisoners and detainees on both sides"
Shirel Hogeg went viral after he was captured on camera heckling an #Israeli minister:
“You lot need to apologise... you’ve left a deep tear in the people of Israel,” he was seen shouting.
His family was injured when #Hamas militants attacked their home.
He told the BBC: “We were caught unguarded. The government, the army and intelligence. And this is a failure. Nobody is hiding that. Because it happened on your watch, we will be sure that you'll take responsibility.”
Asked about a bombing on Friday which killed a reported 70 people on a road identified as safe by the Israeli army, Conricus repeated that IDF does not actively target civilians.
But at one point during the briefing he appeared to acknowledge that the 'nature of the operation' means it’s 'not always possible to avoid civilian casualties.'
#Netanyahu says he'll “eliminate” #Hamas. But what happens the day after? We’ve been getting some clues about thinking within parts of the #Israeli govt.
Cabinet minister Gideon Sa’ar said on Israeli TV that Gaza must end up smaller - with Israel taking control of a belt of land in the east and north of the strip. This will play into the worst fears of #Palestinians as it evokes their core issue - the loss of lands in the conflicts surrounding Israel’s creation 75 ys ago
It also says that Israel has the right to "defend itself in line with humanitarian and international law in the face of such violent and indiscriminate attacks".
It also calls for all hostages to be released and calls for measures to be taken to protect civilians in Gaza.
"The UN has stocks available of food, water, non-food items, medical supplies and fuel....These goods can be dispatched within hours," he said.
"Each one of these two objectives are valid in themselves. They should not become bargaining chips."
Blinken has warned that every precaution must be taken to avoid harming civilians as #Israel prepares for a major ground offensive in #Gaza. More than 2600 #Palestinians have been killed since the #Hamas assault on Israel
The Israeli energy minister says the country has decided to resume supplying #water to Southern Gaza. Katz said the decision has been agreed between #Netanyahu and Biden
'Who is #Hamas leader #Yahya #Sinwar , dubbed ‘a dead man walking’ by #Israel ?'
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/israel-hamas-war-yahya-sinwar-gaza-leader-dead-man-walking-rcna120423
'Sinwar joined Hamas after it was founded in 1987, gaining a reputation for brutality after he reportedly helped to form the militant group’s internal security force, acc to ECF.
He was captured by Israel just two years later and sentenced to life - but being behind bars did not stop him from rising through the ranks, and it also gave him the opportunity to learn to speak Hebrew'
Who is Yahya Sinwar, Hamas' leader in Gaza being hunted by Israel?
Israel’s military have called Yahya Sinwar a “dead man walking” and the hunt for Hamas’ leader in the enclave appears to be on.Raf Sanchez (NBC News)