An Israeli air strike has hit al-Ahli hospital in Gaza City where thousands of civilians are seeking medical treatment and shelter from relentless attacks.

Gaza health ministry says at least 500 casualties in hospital blast. A UN-run school housing refugees also struck.

The attack comes a day before US President Joe Biden visits Israel, where he is expected to stress American support for the country.

A planned summit with President Biden in Jordan has been cancelled, the Jordanian government says.

Some 3,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza since Hamas’s October 7 attack inside Israel, which has killed more than 1,400.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/17/world-reacts-as-gaza-officials-say-500-killed-in-israeli-strike-on-hospital

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    Interesting timeline of events. Right after the hospital was hit, the IDF twitter account stated that it had taken out a Hamas weapons point and then an Israeli Air Force member started bragging about blowing up the hospital.

    Then, within thirty minutes, both of those tweets were deleted and the Israel Twitter account said they were “looking into the incident”.

    And then, two hours later, they started claiming Hamas was responsible.

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      Could you provide a link or source on those deleted tweets? I can’t find anything online.

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        I’m looking for a good link to give. The problem is that they’re all going to be screenshots, since the original tweets were deleted. And obviously the reliability of screenshots can always be questioned.

        For now, here’s a tweet from the former digital manager for Netanyahu. He claimed afterwards that he just assumed it was Israel and was happy about it because of that?

        As a separate thing, the official Israel account also posted a video that it then deleted claiming it was the rockets from a terrorist group, but people noted the timestamps were almost an hour before the hospital was hit. That video is still being wildly circulated as evidence

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          Thank you for this, much appreciated!

          I could believe that the first tweet was real, even if “terrorist base inside a hospital” doesn’t sound to me like something a PR person would say.

          But the 2nd deleted tweet, the one in Arabic - either that translation is way off or I think it’s fake. “We know you didn’t have enough hospital supplies so we decided to euthanize you” is too perfectly evil. That translation at least just sounds like something only a propagandist would actually say.

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            Oh, the Facebook image was found to be fake, yes, or more specifically someone pretending to be an official Israeli department on Facebook. I was just discussing the video in that one, not the Facebook image.

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              Oh, great to have that confirmed as fake. Yep, I was just referring to the tweets from your first link. I’m gonna take your word on the video part, and appreciate the info - even if it’s tame combat footage is not for me.

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      Israeli Air Force member started bragging about blowing up the hospital.

      its all over twitter, the Israeli’s did it and took credit for it.