Fury over Gaza hospital blast surges across Middle East
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Israel and its staunch ally the United States were targets of rage, condemnation and protest that surged across the Middle East late Tuesday into Wednesday, blamed by demonstrators and regional governments alike for a deadly blast at a hospital in Gaza that killed hundreds of people.
Protesters took to the streets from Morocco to Iran, in angry marches held in front of Israeli or U.S. diplomatic missions or those of other Western allies of Israel, like Britain and France. The blast at the hospital in Gaza City, which Palestinian officials blamed on an Israeli airstrike, was branded an outrage and a war crime. Israel said it had evidence the strike was the result of a misfired rocket launched by a Palestinian militant group.
Hamas says civilians could be quickly released if Israeli airstrikes stop.
The New York Times admitted that images, as well as Hamas’s immediate statements blaming Israel and the delay in Israeli denials, combined to fuel angry reactions across the Middle East, with large protests in Beirut and a crowd in Amman, Jordan, lighting a fire outside the Israeli embassy there.
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