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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    1 year ago

    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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      1 year ago

      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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        1 year ago

        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.