{"id":35621,"date":"2023-10-18T03:24:05","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T03:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=35621"},"modified":"2023-10-18T03:27:09","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T03:27:09","slug":"israel-gaza-hospital-blast-kills-hundreds-health-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=35621","title":{"rendered":"Israel Gaza: Hospital blast kills hundreds &#8211; health officials"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BBC News:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Hundreds of people have been killed by an explosion at a crowded hospital in Gaza City, health officials say.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One doctor condemned what he called &#8220;a massacre&#8221; at Al-Ahli Arab Hospital, while another spoke of a scene of total devastation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Palestinian officials say the blast was caused by an Israeli air strike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the Israeli military say it was the result of a failed rocket launch by Palestinian Islamic Jihad &#8211; an accusation the militant group rejected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Israeli warplanes and artillery have been bombarding Gaza in response to an unprecedented attack on Israel on 7 October by the main Palestinian militant group, Hamas, which killed 1,300 people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More than 3,000 people have been reported killed by strikes on Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The hospital blast is threatening efforts to resolve the humanitarian crisis there, with Jordan cancelling a planned summit on Wednesday between US President Joe Biden, King Abdullah and the Palestinian and Egyptian leaders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr Biden is still travelling to Tel Aviv to show his country&#8217;s &#8220;solidarity with Israel&#8221; and &#8220;ironclad commitment to its security&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/624\/cpsprodpb\/1FCD\/production\/_105914180_line976-nc.png\" alt=\"line\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC News: Hundreds of people have been killed by an explosion at a crowded hospital in Gaza City, health officials say. One doctor condemned what he called &#8220;a massacre&#8221; at Al-Ahli Arab Hospital, while another spoke of a scene of total devastation. Palestinian officials say the blast was caused by an Israeli air strike. But the Israeli military say it was the result of a failed rocket launch by Palestinian Islamic Jihad &#8211; an accusation the militant group rejected. Israeli warplanes and artillery have been bombarding Gaza in response to an unprecedented attack on Israel on 7 October by the&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35624,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35623,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35621\/revisions\/35623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}