Gaza hospital bombing Russia and the Emirates call for an

Gaza hospital bombing: Russia and the Emirates call for an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council

Russia and the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday called an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council for Wednesday following an attack on a Gaza hospital that Hamas blamed on Israel and that killed at least 200 people, according to local authorities were killed.

“Russia and the United Arab Emirates requested an urgent public meeting of the United Nations Security Council on the morning of October 18 due to the attack on a hospital in Gaza,” the ambassador said on Telegram. The Russian deputy to the United Nations, Dmitri Polianskiï.

IDF accuses Islamic Jihad

While the Gaza Strip has been bombed daily by the Israeli army since October 7, an attack on a hospital in the enclave on Tuesday left hundreds dead. Hamas, which is in power in the area, blamed the IDF. The Israeli army, for its part, denied being behind it and accused the Palestinian organization of Islamic Jihad.

The tragedy led to a wave of protests in the West Bank, the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territory, where hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets demanding the resignation of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. The Israeli embassy in Jordan was also attacked following the attack.