The White House calls off Jordan summit as US President Joe Biden heads to Israel; Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas calls Gaza hospital bombing ‘hideous war massacre’; Israel claims strike misfired Hamas rocket.
Gaza authorities said an Israeli air strike on Tuesday killed about 500 people at a hospital in the Palestinian enclave, but Israel said a Palestinian rocket had caused the blast. The death toll was by far the highest of any single incident in Gaza during the current violence, triggering protests in the occupied West Bank, Istanbul and Amman. Earlier a Gaza civil defence chief said 300 people were killed and a health ministry official said 500 were killed.
A spokesperson for the Israeli military said analysis by its operational system showed “an enemy rocket barrage” aimed at Israel was passing the hospital at the time of the strike and blamed the Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant group. Islamic Jihad denied that any of its rockets were involved in the hospital blast, saying it did not have any activity in or around Gaza City at that time.
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