Hezbollah announces 'day of unprecedented anger' against Israel after strike on Gaza hospital
Group calls on people to take to the streets to put pressure on governments
BEIRUT, Lebanon
Lebanon’s Hezbollah group condemned Israel’s strike on Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza and announced that Wednesday would be “a day of unprecedented anger" against Israel.
"Humanity mourns the horrific and brutal crime committed by the Zionist murder and criminal gangs at the Baptist Hospital in Gaza, which claimed the lives of hundreds of innocent martyrs,” it said Tuesday in a statement.
Hezbollah said that "all statements of condemnation and denunciation are no longer enough.”
“We call on the peoples of our Arab and Islamic nation to take immediate action in the streets and squares, to express extreme anger and put pressure on governments and states," it said.
"Let tomorrow, Wednesday, be a day of unprecedented anger against the enemy and its crimes and against (US President Joe) Biden's visit to the Zionist entity (of Israel) to cover and protect this criminal entity."
Earlier Tuesday, the spokesman for the Health Ministry in Gaza, Ashraf Al-Qudra, told Anadolu that more than 500 Palestinians were killed during an Israeli bombing that targeted the vicinity of Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital.
An Israeli army spokesman said that “not all the details are available” yet about what happened at the hospital, according to the government broadcasting authority.
As part of a confrontation with the Palestinian group Hamas and other factions, Israel for an 11th day launched intensive raids on Gaza and continued cut off water, electricity, food and medicine to the Strip. This sparked local and international warnings of a double humanitarian catastrophe in parallel with intense Israeli raids and arrests in cities and towns of the occupied West Bank.
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