• It is the twelfth day of the war: 3,000 Palestinians have died, 1,400 Israelis, 199 hostages.
• Explosion at al-Ahli hospital in Gaza City. According to the Gaza Health Ministry, an Israeli bomb attack was the cause: hundreds dead.
• Biden is in Israel today to meet with Netanyahu. By mutual decision, the summit meeting between the US President and Abu Mazen planned for today in Amman is canceled.
• One of the three Italian-Israeli citizens missing after the Hamas attack has died.
• A senior Hamas commander was killed in an Israeli raid
• The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees said an Israeli airstrike killed at least six people after hitting one of its schools in Gaza
4:56 a.m. – Clashes in the West Bank and on the Israel-Lebanon border
A Palestinian protester “was killed during clashes with Israeli forces in the village of Nabi Saleh,” not far from Ramallah in the West Bank. There are new clashes on the border between Israel and Lebanon: five Hezbollah militiamen were reportedly killed. This is the highest number of victims in a single day since the conflict between Israel and Hamas began.
4:55 a.m. – Attack on Gaza: Hundreds of people on the streets against Israel, Iran and Libya. In Beirut, tear gas was fired at demonstrators in front of the US embassy
Hundreds of protesters gathered outside the French and British embassies in the Iranian capital Tehran this evening after a hospital in Gaza was bombed. The same scenario, with several hundred people also taking to the streets in various cities in Libya and demonstrating against Israel. In Tripoli, protesters carrying Palestinian flags, some covering their faces with keffiyehs, crossed the streets of the center before meeting in Martyrs’ Square, shouting slogans of support for Gazans and denouncing the attack on the Gaza hospital by part of the “Zionist Enemy”. Pro-Palestinian protesters attempted to break through security barriers outside the US Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon. The police used water cannons and fired tear gas at people who were protesting against Israel, but also against the USA.
4:54 a.m. – Guterres (UN): “Horrified, hospitals are under the protection of international humanitarian law”
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said he was “horrified” by the deaths of hundreds of people in the hospital attack in Gaza: “Hospitals and medical staff are protected by international humanitarian law,” he wrote on X.
04:52 – Anti-tank missiles from southern Lebanon, Israel responds
After firing anti-tank missiles, “the Israeli army attacks Hezbollah positions in Lebanon with artillery.” This was reported by a military spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). Israeli troops said they carried out bombing raids across the border with Lebanon in the Shtula area and in the area of the Israel-Lebanon security barrier in response to “anti-tank missiles” bearing the Star of David fired at soldiers. The army “fired artillery at the site of the bombing,” the army added in a statement on its Telegram channel.
04:52 – UN: Emergency meeting of the Security Council
At the request of Russia and the United Arab Emirates, the United Nations Security Council will hold an emergency meeting today following the Gaza hospital massacre and will also comment on a resolution presented by Brazil that seeks to find a common position on the Israel-Israel war to find Hamas. The announcement came from Russian UN Ambassador Dmitri Polianskii. The meeting will take place at 4:00 p.m. Italian time.
3:34 a.m. – Palestinian President Abu Mazen: Nobody will take our land away from us
Palestinian President Abu Mazen confirmed his return to the West Bank over the cancellation of the Amman summit “after the massacre in Gaza” – defined as a “terrible war massacre in which Israel crossed all borders” – and said that the Palestinians “do not do that “. They will accept another 21st century Nakba. We will resist any attempt at forced displacement. “We will not leave our country and no one will send us away,” he added, quoted by Al Jazeera. The Palestinian president also called on the UN Security Council to condemn Israel’s actions
3:27 a.m. – Israel: The video of the Palestinian rocket comes from Al Jazeera
The video published by the Israeli army on The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) itself states this and shows the full video on the social network. “Check carefully before blaming Israel,” the post said.
02:57 a.m. – USA: Biden “outraged”, asks to “understand what happened in the hospital in Gaza”
(by Viviana Mazza, correspondent from New York) “I am outraged and deeply shocked by the explosion,” says US President Joe Biden on the way to Israel after the news of the hundreds of deaths in the hospital in Gaza became known Israel on the one hand and Hamas and Islamic Jihad blame each other. Biden called on his national security team to “gather information to understand what happened,” but his national security spokesman John Kirby clarified that “it is not an investigation” and avoided commenting “in any respect or other.” to answer a question from an accompanying journalist who asked him whether Israel respected martial law. “The situation – he said – changes from hour to hour.”
After the cancellation of the summit in Jordan, the trip includes a single stop in Tel Aviv on Wednesday: a bilateral meeting with Netanyahu, then meetings with the war cabinet, with the rescuers and the families of those killed in the Hamas attack and hostages on October 7 . Biden will also make public statements and meet with President Herzog. “When he talks to Netanyahu,” said spokesman John Kirby, “he will try to get a sense of the situation on the ground and of Israeli goals and intentions.” He will ask difficult questions, but as a true friend, and say, that we do not want this conflict to expand or deepen.”
The American president reiterates his support for arming Israel and the immediate release of the hostages, but declares that aid to the civilian population in Gaza “as quickly as possible and not just once, but continuously” – says Kirby – “food, water” must arrive, electricity, medicine, everything that the civilian population urgently needs. Jeremy Bowen, a long-time BBC correspondent from Israel, comments that the cancellation of the Arab summit and the fact that “the Arabs felt so comfortable canceling their meeting with the President reflect the seriousness of the situation here, but also “the decline” of America’s power. A few years ago they would not have dared to do something that was essentially a great insult to the President of the United States.”
Speaker Kirby portrayed the cancellation of the summit not as an affront but as “a joint decision” by Biden and the Jordanian king after Palestinian Authority President Abu Mazen said he “needed to go home to mourn for three days.” and because “he understands that he has not appropriated them. He added that Biden “always prefers face-to-face discussions” but would speak again with Egyptian President Al Sisi and Abu Mazen on the return flight. After Netanyahu’s invitation, it was the president who also organized an Arab part of his trip, which would certainly have shown him – also visually – as a mediator between the Israeli and the Palestinian side, which does not identify with Hamas. But the decision to turn back after canceling the Amman summit was simply not an option: it would have been seen as an affront by Israel. “We are traveling to a region where there is active conflict and security risks,” said spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre. “But we wouldn’t be making this trip if we didn’t believe we could do it in a way that was safe for the president,” Kirby stressed.
2:52 a.m. – Israel, the army releases a video: “The hospital was hit by a Palestinian rocket”
The Israeli military posted a video in the sequence, where we can see what appears to be an aircraft carrier in the darkness, which then explodes high above the Gaza sky, followed by an explosion on the ground.