WHO, several countries condemn Gaza hospital strike

The World Health Organization (WHO), Jordan, Saudi Arabia, among others on Tuesday condemn the attack on Al Ahli Arab Hospital in the north of the Gaza Strip that killed at least 300 people.

Palestinian Hamas leader Haniyeh says "(the) hospital massacre is a new turning point."

A UAE Presidential adviser condemns targeting Gaza hospital by Israel, confirms priority of sparing civilians the scourge of war and respecting humanitarian law.

Jordan's foreign ministry issued a statement on Tuesday strongly condemning Israel's attack on a hospital in Gaza that killed hundreds of injured and displaced civilians.

The statement stressed the need to provide international protection for the Palestinian people and called on immediately joining efforts to stop the war from raging in Gaza.

European Council President Charles Michel, responding to a reported Israeli strike on a Gaza hospital, said on Tuesday that attacks on civilian infrastructure were not in line with international law.

After an emergency video conference of European Union leaders, Michel said the report "seems to be confirmed" and added: "An attack against civilian infrastructure is not in line with international law."

Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said the strike on the Al-Ahli al-Arabi Hospital in the north of the Gaza Strip that killed hundreds was a "war crime" and said Washington indirectly was responsible.

"The horrific attack on a hospital in the Gaza Strip is clearly a war crime," Medvedev, who is deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council and has become an increasingly hawkish and anti-Western figure in Russian politics, said on the Telegram messaging app.

"Who thoughtlessly distributes colossal amounts of money for weapons, loading up their military-industrial complex. Who falsely proclaims their global mission to protect democratic values. The USA."

Lebanon's Hezbollah denounced what the group said was Israel's deadly attack on a Gaza hospital and called for "a day of unprecedented anger" on Wednesday, as protests erupted outside the U.S. embassy in Beirut just hours after the incident.

Iran-backed Hezbollah, which fought a war with Israel in 2006, made the call for the day pf protest in Beirut in a statement late on Tuesday, after Palestinian officials said hundreds of people were killed in the strike on the hospital.

Israel's military denied responsibility for the bombing, saying military intelligence suggested the hospital was hit by a failed rocket launch by the enclave's Palestinian Islamic Jihad military group.

Islamic Jihad denied that any of its rockets were involved in the hospital blast.

UK Foreign Minister James Cleverly says "UK will work with our allies to find out what has happened and protect innocent civilians in Gaza." — Reuters