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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    11 months ago

    The issue with that video that a lot of people are pointing out is that the timestamp is a half hour prior to when the hospital was hit. And time zones change in full hour increments, so that doesn’t explain the discrepancy.

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      11 months ago

      And time zones change in full hour increments

      That’s not entirely true. Several timezones are at a 30 minute offset and a couple are even at a 45 minute offset.

      Iran is +3:30

      Afghanistan is +4:30

      India is +5:30

      NT and SA in Australia is +9:30 (but NT doesn’t observe DST)

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        11 months ago

        In some special areas, yes, often due to specific small country decisions on where they fall on the date line. But that doesn’t apply here.

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      11 months ago

      I don’t see a timestamp, did it get cropped or something? Is there a timeline that puts these two videos in context with the rest of the events?

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        Yeah, the video in the link up there is zoomed in. The original Al Jazeera livestream was a multi-panel set of videos.