TEL AVIV , Israel - US President Joe Biden on a visit to Israel Wednesday backed his ally's stance blaming Palestinian militants for a rocket strike on a hospital that killed hundreds in war-torn Gaza and has inflamed anger across the Middle East.
TEL AVIV , Israel - US President Joe Biden on a visit to Israel Wednesday backed his ally's stance blaming Palestinian militants for a rocket strike on a hospital that killed hundreds in war-torn Gaza and has inflamed anger across the Middle East.
"And, based on what I've seen, it appears as though it was done by the other team, not you," said the US president, referring to the armed movements Hamas and Islamic Jihad, which Washington designates"terrorist" groups. US President Joe Biden speaks with Captain Maor Farid while meeting with people in Tel Aviv on October 18, 2023, effected by this month's attacks on Israel by the Palestinian militant group Hamas. But the horror of the hospital deaths threatened to derail his high-stakes regional visit, with Jordan cancelling a summit between King Abdullah II, Biden, Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
Overnight, after the explosion, scores of bodies cloaked in blood-stained sheets and white plastic lined the floors at the nearby the Al-Shifa hospital, where bereaved relatives tried to identify loved ones. Israeli military spokesman Daniel Hagari told a press conference that the hospital was hit by a rocket that misfired after it was launched by Islamic Jihad -- an ally of Hamas, Gaza's rulers, who have fired thousands of rockets into Israel since October 7.
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