Reuters, AP <\/strong><\/p>\nIsraeli PM blames \u2018terrorists\u2019 for hospital strike <\/h2>\n Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has taken to social media, blaming \u201cbarbaric terrorists in Gaza\u201d for the hospital airstrike. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe entire world should know: It was barbaric terrorists in Gaza that attacked the hospital in Gaza, and not the IDF,\u201d he wrote. <\/p>\n
\u201cThose who brutally murdered our children also murder their own children.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hamas blamed Israel for the airstrike earlier this morning. <\/p>\n
\u201cA new war crime committed by the (Israeli) occupation by bombing the Al-Ahli Hospital in the center of Gaza City,\u201d said Salama Marouf, a spokesperson for Hamas.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe hospital was housing hundreds of patients, wounded, and those forcibly displaced from their homes due to the strikes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Attack on Gaza hospital \u2018unprecedented\u2019 in scale, WHO says<\/h2>\n The attack on the Al-Ahli al-Arabi Hospital in the north of the Gaza Strip that killed hundreds was \u201cunprecedented\u201d, the World Health Organization (WHO) says.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis attack is unprecedented in scale,\u201d said Richard Peeperkorn, WHO Representative for the West Bank and Gaza.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have seen consistent attacks on healthcare in the occupied Palestinian territory.\u201c<\/p>\n
Ahmed Al-Mandhari, WHO Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean, said there were patients, healthcare workers and internally displaced people in the hospital when it was struck.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe hospital was one of 20 in the north of the Gaza Strip facing evacuation orders from the Israeli military,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe order for evacuation has been impossible to carry out given the current insecurity, critical condition of many patients, and lack of ambulances, staff, health system bed capacity, and alternative shelter for those displaced,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Reuters<\/strong><\/p>\nFormer videojournalist killed in Hamas attack at home with his family<\/h2>\n Yaniv Zohar, a former Associated Press videojournalist who covered conflicts and major news in his native country for three decades, was killed in his home during Hamas\u2019 bloody cross-border rampage on October 7 along with his wife and two daughters.<\/p>\n
He was 54.<\/p>\n
Zohar worked for AP\u2019s Israel bureau for 15 years, from 2005 to 2020, covering all the major news events in the country. But his area of expertise was the intermittent warfare on the doorstep of his home in the Nahal Oz kibbutz near the border with the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n
Zohar was often the first to alert the news desk of violence nearby and the first to arrive on the scene.<\/p>\n
Most notably, he was deeply involved in coverage of the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza in 2005 and was the first newsperson on the scene of the abduction of Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit by Palestinian militants the following year<\/p>\n
AP<\/strong><\/p>\nHome Affairs Minister Clare O\u2019Neil says there are 46 Australians in Gaza<\/h2>\n Turning now to Home Affairs Minister Clare O\u2019Neil, who says there are 46 Australians in Gaza, one more than previously reported.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can\u2019t give you the demographic information of who it is, all I know is that there are 46 Aussies with Australian passports in their hands,\u201d she just told Seven\u2019s Sunrise<\/em> program this morning.<\/p>\nThe home affairs minister said the government had already helped 1500 people to leave the region, but they were now focused on the Australians in Gaza.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve got to now focus our attention on those 46 people, and we\u2019re doing everything we can. \u201cWe hope that we\u2019ll be able to report back something positive,\u201d O\u2019Neil said.<\/p>\n
Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles revealed yesterday there were 45 Australians in Gaza, which was more than double the number the government said it knew about the day before.<\/p>\n
World leaders react to Gaza hospital explosion <\/h2>\n Russia and the United Arab Emirates have requested an urgent meeting of the United Nations Security Council on October 18 after the blast at a hospital in Gaza City, Russia\u2019s Deputy UN Ambassador Dmitry Polyanskiy said.<\/p>\n
The request comes as world leaders slowly react to the horrific explosion at the hospital, which has killed hundreds.<\/p>\n
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Wounded Palestinians are treated in a hospital in Khan Younis. <\/span>Credit: <\/span>AP<\/cite><\/p>\nSaudi Arabia strongly condemned the \u201cheinous crime\u201d it said was committed by Israeli forces, the kingdom\u2019s foreign ministry said in a statement on Tuesday. Israel has denied it was behind the blast, saying instead it was caused by a misfired Palestinian rocket.<\/p>\n
\u201cRussia and the UAE have requested an urgent open meeting of the UN Security Council for the morning of Oct. 18 over the Gaza hospital strike,\u201d Polyanskiy wrote in his Telegram channel.<\/p>\n
Jordan\u2019s King Abdullah also made a statement and called the explosion a \u201cmassacre\u201d.<\/p>\n
In a statement, the monarch, who blamed the bombing on Israel, said Israel should immediately end its war against the enclave and its actions against innocent Palestinians was a \u201cshame on humanity\u201d.<\/p>\n
Reuters <\/strong><\/p>\nIsrael says Gaza hospital explosion caused by misfired Palestinian rocket<\/h2>\n The Israeli military says it had no involvement in an explosion that killed hundreds of people at a Gaza City hospital and that the blast was caused by a misfired Palestinian rocket.<\/p>\n
The Hamas-run Health Ministry in Gaza says an Israeli airstrike caused the blast, and that it killed some 500 people, many of whom had sought shelter from an ongoing Israeli offensive.<\/p>\n
The Israeli military, however, said Palestinian militants had fired a barrage of rockets near the hospital at the time.<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom the analysis of the IDF\u2019s operational systems, an enemy rocket barrage was carried out towards Israel, which passed in the vicinity of the hospital, when it was hit,\u201d an IDF spokesman said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAccording to intelligence information, from a number of sources we have, the PIJ (Palestinian Islamic Jihad) organisation is responsible for the failed shooting that hit the hospital.\u201d<\/p>\n
AP, Sky News<\/strong><\/p>\nProtesters clash with authorities in West Bank <\/h2>\n Thousands of protesters have gathered in the main square of Ramallah in the West Bank, clashing with security forces in response to the strike of a hospital in Gaza.<\/p>\n
In live footage from the square, protesters can be seen chanting against President Mahmoud Abbas and throwing rocks at Palestinian police.<\/p>\n
At one stage, a security car charged through the square towards protesters in an attempt to disperse the crowd.<\/p>\n
Clashes with Palestinian security forces have also broken out in a number of other cities in the occupied West Bank late on Tuesday, according to witnesses.<\/p>\n
With Reuters<\/strong><\/p>\nAbbas cancels meeting with Biden, officials say <\/h2>\n Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has cancelled a planned meeting with US President Joe Biden, following an Israeli strike on a Gaza hospital on Tuesday that killed hundreds, a senior Palestinian official said.<\/p>\n
The meeting was due to take place in Jordan.<\/p>\n
The senior Palestinian official said Abbas was returning to Ramallah, the seat of his government in the occupied West Bank. <\/p>\n
Reuters <\/strong><\/p>\nWorld Health Organisation condemns attack on Gaza hospital<\/h2>\n The World Health Organisation has condemned the attack on al-Ahli Hospital in the north of the Gaza Strip that killed at least 300 people.<\/p>\n
Countries including Canada, Turkey, Iran, Qatar and Jordan have also criticised the Israeli airstrike.<\/p>\n
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau described it as \u201chorrific and absolutely unacceptable\u201d when asked about the strike, which health authorities in the Hamas-run enclave said had killed hundreds of people.<\/p>\n
European Council President Charles Michel said attacks on civilian infrastructure were not in line with international law.<\/p>\n
After an emergency video conference of European Union leaders, Michel said the report of the attack on the hospital \u201cseems to be confirmed\u201d and added: \u201cAn attack against civilian infrastructure is not in line with international law.\u201d<\/p>\n
Meanwhile Russia and the UAE have requested an urgent meeting of the UN Security Council in the aftermath of the strike.<\/p>\n
It began as a holy day. It ended with barbarity and bravery on gruesome display<\/h2>\n The Age<\/em> and Sydney Morning Herald\u2019<\/em>s journalists Matthew Knott<\/strong> and Kate Geraghty<\/strong> are on the ground in Israel reporting on the unfolding crisis. Here is their account from Be\u2019er Sheva, familiar to many Australians as the site of a famous ANZAC and British victory in World War One.<\/p>\nA shoot-out between Israeli cops and Hamas terrorists. Kalashnikov rifles and rocket-propelled grenades. Kill or be killed. Daniel Damri\u2019s story of October 7 sounds like a video game. But as he recounts his survival to us from his hospital bed it was clear this wasn\u2019t virtual reality, it was reality. The limitless barbarity and bravery of which mankind is capable is on gruesome display, here in the dusty plains of the Negev Desert.<\/p>\n
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Rabbi Shachar Butzchak being treated in the Soroka Medical Centre for bullet wounds in his leg after being shot during the Hamas attack in Ofakim, Israel.<\/span>Credit: <\/span>Kate Geraghty<\/cite><\/p>\nDamri\u2019s plan for Saturday was simple: to relax with his wife and three young children in their hometown of Be\u2019er Sheva, a city of 213,000 people in southern Israel. It was Shabbat, the Jewish day of rest, and the 32-year-old police special forces officer was not rostered to work. The perfect day for a hike and a trip to the playground.<\/p>\n
This tranquil vision was shattered when he awoke at 6.30am to the wailing cry of air raid sirens. Hamas, the militant group that rules the Gaza Strip, was firing rockets into Israel – a common occurrence in this land of perpetual conflict.<\/p>\n
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