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On October 17, people participated in the rescue in Rafah, a city in the south of Gaza.
Palestinian health authorities said the day before yesterday that a hospital in Gaza city in the northern Gaza was attacked by Israeli air that night, killing hundreds of people. The IDF denied launching air strikes, and identified the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (Jehad) as responsible for the incident, which the latter denied.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas subsequently announced his withdrawal from the meeting of Palestinian, Jordanian, Egyptian and American leaders scheduled for yesterday in Amman, Jordan. Jordan announced that the Quartet summit was cancelled. The White House confirmed that US President Barack joseph robinette has postponed his visit to Jordan, and this trip to the Middle East will only visit Israel.
Heavy casualties
According to the Palestinian health authorities, at least 500 people were killed in an air raid on the Ahli Arab Hospital (also known as the Baptist Hospital). According to the Associated Press, this is the single attack with the highest death toll in the Gaza since the outbreak of the new round of Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
Mohammed abu Selmia, head of Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, said that about 350 air raid wounded in Al-Ahli Arab Hospital were sent to Shifa Hospital, which was already overcrowded. The wounded lay on the ground full of blood and water, wailing in pain.
The number of injured people is still unknown. The death toll may rise.
Palestinian President Abbas condemned the Israeli air raid on the hospital as a "heinous massacre". Abbas announced that it would mourn for three days for the victims of Al-Ahli Arab Hospital and the Palestinians killed in the current Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari claimed that Jehad was responsible for the attack when he fired several rockets near the hospital.
Jehad denied the above statement, saying that Israel was "trying its best to evade responsibility for its own brutal massacre". Jehad said that the hospital was originally the target of Israeli air strikes, and the scale of the explosion, the falling angle of the bomb and the degree of damage caused by the air strikes also pointed the clues to Israel.
Biden was rejected.
The air raid on Gaza City Hospital coincided with Biden’s trip to the Middle East. The day before yesterday, Abbas announced its withdrawal from the four-party summit of Joba, Egypt and the United States scheduled to be held in Amman the next day; The Jordanian side announced the cancellation of the meeting.
In an interview with local TV stations, Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Assafadi said that the new round of conflict between Palestine and Israel has pushed the situation in the Middle East to a tipping point, and Jordan will hold relevant meetings only if all parties agree to "stop the war, respect the human rights of Palestinians and provide them with the assistance they need".
According to White House officials, Biden will only visit Israel and has postponed his visit to Jordan.
Biden has spoken to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu since the air raid on Gaza City Hospital. The White House did not disclose the contents of the call.
The Associated Press commented that Biden faced a double dilemma in the new round of conflict between Palestine and Israel. At the internal level, congressional Republicans rarely agree with Biden’s policy on the Palestinian-Israeli issue. Coupled with the "dystocia" of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, it is difficult for the power vacuum of the House of Representatives to promote any aid to Israel. On the diplomatic level, if Israel continues to air strike the Gaza Strip during Biden’s visit to Israel, the two countries will suffer more condemnation.
Multi-party condemnation
Many international organizations and countries, including the United Nations, the World Health Organization, Turkey and Lebanon, condemned the attack on Gaza City Hospital and called on the international community to stop the bloodshed as soon as possible.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volcker Turk, issued a statement the night before, calling the attack "totally unacceptable" and the violence and killings must stop immediately.
Charles Michel, President of the European Council, said that the attack on civilian facilities in Gaza violated international law.
On social media, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz condemned the attack on Gaza City Hospital as a "barbaric terrorist act".
According to Reuters, many demonstrators gathered outside the Israeli diplomatic embassies and consulates in Turkey and Jordan, and near the US Embassy in Lebanon to condemn the attack on the hospital in Gaza City.
In Tehran, the capital of Iran, hundreds of Iranians gathered outside the British and French embassies in solidarity with Palestine because Iran has no diplomatic relations with Israel and the United States.
At present, Israel has assembled tens of thousands of troops at the junction of Israel and the Gaza Strip, and is expected to launch a ground offensive. Israeli military spokesman Richard Hecht said that Israel is ready to enter the "next stage of the war", but the specific form may be "different" from the ground attack expected by the outside world.
Chinese voice
Call for an immediate ceasefire and try to protect civilians.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs answered a reporter’s question yesterday on the heavy casualties caused by the attack on Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza.
At least 500 people were killed in the attack on Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza last night. A spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China said that China was shocked and strongly condemned the attack on Gaza Hospital, which caused heavy casualties. "We express our condolences to the victims and condolences to the injured. China calls for an immediate ceasefire to stop the war and do its utmost to protect civilians and avoid humanitarian disasters. "
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The US military is ready to deploy about 2,000 soldiers.
The U.S. Department of Defense announced the day before yesterday that it had ordered about 2,000 U.S. soldiers to make preparations for deployment to cope with the new round of large-scale Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
The U.S. Department of Defense said in a statement that Secretary of Defense lloyd austin ordered about 2,000 soldiers to enter a state of high readiness, and no deployment decision has been made yet.
The statement said that this move is to prepare for a "quick response" to the constantly changing security situation in the Middle East, and the US will continue to maintain communication with its allies and partners.
John Kirby, strategic communication coordinator of the National Security Council of the White House, said that the above deployment preparations are aimed at "sending a deterrent signal" and that the US has "no plan or intention" to send ground troops to Israel to carry out combat missions.
After the latest round of large-scale conflict between Palestine and Israel broke out, the United States expressed its firm support and provided military assistance to Israel, and ordered the deployment of two aircraft carrier strike groups in the waters near Israel in the eastern Mediterranean.
Michael curry Ra, commander of the US Central Command, arrived in Israel the day before yesterday to discuss US military aid to Israel. Curilla said that the US will "ensure" that Israel "has everything it needs for self-defense".
On the other hand, the international community calls for the opening of a humanitarian passage for the Gaza Strip, a ceasefire between Palestine and Israel, and the implementation of the "two-state plan" to solve the Palestinian-Israeli problem at its root.
The United States authorized non-essential personnel of the embassy in Lebanon to evacuate.
The State Council said the day before yesterday that in view of the unpredictable security situation, the United States raised its travel warning level to the highest level, and at the same time authorized the families of American government employees and some unnecessary personnel in the embassy in Lebanon to "voluntarily and temporarily" evacuate.
The State Council said in a statement that the security situation is unpredictable because of the constant gunfire between Hezbollah and Israel, and the State Council raised the warning level of travel to Lebanon to the highest level, that is, "Don’t go".
The State Council also said that he authorized the families of American government employees and some non-essential personnel in the Beirut Embassy to evacuate "voluntarily and temporarily". The statement mentioned the recent rally, demonstration and other activities in Lebanon and called on American citizens to avoid approaching.
Lebanese Prime Minister najib mikati condemned the Israeli army’s attack on the hospital and declared the 18th as a national mourning day to mourn the victims. Hezbollah in Lebanon also condemned the Israeli military attack.
According to Agence France-Presse, hundreds of demonstrators protested near the US Embassy in Lebanon the night before and had physical clashes with Lebanese security personnel outside the embassy. Some demonstrators threw stones at the embassy and others set fire nearby.
With the continuous tension on the Israeli-Lebanese border, Israel recently announced the evacuation of residents from 28 villages on its northern border. This group/Xinhua News Agency