TEL AVIV: US President Joe Biden on a visit to Israel Wednesday backed his ally’s stance blaming Islamist Palestinian militants for a rocket strike on a hospital that killed hundreds in war-torn Gaza and has inflamed anger across the Middle East.
Arab countries have blamed Israel, which has rained bombs on Gaza since the bloody October 7 attack by Hamas—but Biden voiced support for Israel’s position that a misfired Islamic Jihad rocket had hit the Ahli Arab Hospital.“I was deeply saddened and outraged by the explosion at the hospital in Gaza yesterday,” Biden said at a meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the morning after the blast that killed 200 to 300 people according to Gaza authorities.
Biden has expressed “iron-clad” US support for top regional ally Israel and its military campaign—retaliation for the killing of 1,400 people who were shot, mutilated or burnt to death in the shock cross-border attacks launched by Hamas.But the horror of the hospital deaths threatened to derail his high-stakes regional visit, with Jordan cancelling a summit between King Abdullah II, Biden, Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
“Hospitals are not a target,” said Ghassan Abu Sittah of the charity Doctors Without Borders, who was inside the building when it was hit.As the sun rose at the blast site, rubble, charred cars and victims’ belongings were scattered around the Christian-run hospital. “The situation in Gaza is spiralling out of control,” World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus wrote on X, formerly Twitter.UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for an “immediate humanitarian ceasefire” and warned Israel against “the collective punishment of the Palestinian people”.
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