Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
| See more on the explosion here. |
[Regnum] The Russian Federation and the United Arab Emirates, in connection with the attack on a hospital in the Gaza Strip, requested a meeting of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on October 18.
“Russia and the UAE have requested an urgent open meeting of the UN Security Council on the morning of October 18 in connection with the attack on a hospital in Gaza,” Dmitry Polyansky, First Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN, wrote on October 17 in his Telegram channel.
| What does the UN Security Council care about a self own when an Islamic Jihad rocket exploded in the Gaza hospital weapons cache? |
As Regnum reported, earlier on Tuesday, the Al Jazeera television channel, citing a representative of the Ministry of Health of the Gaza Strip, reported that a rocket attack was carried out on the Al-Ahli Al-Maadani hospital, which was allegedly backed by the Israel Defense Forces. At least 500 people died as a result of the tragedy.
| So says Hamas, anyway. The real number is probably something very different, but as they’re all under the rubble now, likely only far future archeologists will know. |
The Israel Defense Forces, in turn, began an investigation into the incident. According to preliminary information from the Israeli side, an explosion in a hospital in the Gaza Strip is associated with a failed Hamas rocket launch. The i24 TV channel reported this on October 17.
On the evening of October 17, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas declared three days of mourning for the victims of the hospital attack. The head of state ordered the flags to be lowered “as a sign of mourning for the victims of Israeli aggression.”
| Will their families all get the martyrdom payoff, too? This war is getting really expensive for the Palestinian Authority. |
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