President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi condemned in the strongest terms 'the Israeli bombing' of the Ahli hospital, which led to 'the deaths of hundreds of innocent victims' among the Palestinian citizens in Gaza.
President Joe Biden said he was 'outraged and deeply saddened by the explosion' and 'the terrible loss of life that resulted'.īiden said he had spoken to Jordan's King Abdullah II and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu 'immediately upon hearing this news.' Guterres 'strongly condemned' the strike but without attributing responsibility. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said he was 'horrified by the killing of hundreds of Palestinian civilians in a strike on a hospital in Gaza'. The Israeli army blamed it on a misfired rocket attack by Hamas ally Islamic Jihad, which has described the accusations as 'lies'. The Palestinian militant group Hamas, which runs the territory, accused Israel of being behind the strike.
PARIS: A strike on a Gaza hospital compound which health officials there said killed at least 200 people has provoked outrage and condemnation from around the world, with protests on the streets of Amman, Tunis, Beirut and Tehran.
