至少500人在一次罢工中丧生据加沙卫生部称，位于加沙市中心的Al Ahli阿拉伯医院。
这家医院成了成千上万居民的避难所逃离他们在加沙北部的家园，寻找免受以色列空袭的安全。被困在加沙的居民正在耗尽药品、食物、水和电力。
以色列国防军否认对此次袭击负责，称是巴勒斯坦伊斯兰圣战组织的一次失败发射造成了爆炸。
“根据以色列国防军作战系统的分析，敌人向以色列发射了一枚火箭弹，火箭弹在被击中时经过了医院附近，”以色列国防军说。
以色列总理内塔尼亚胡说，“加沙的野蛮恐怖分子是袭击医院的人。”
然而，美国官员在这一点上“只是不知道火箭来自哪里”，一名美国高级官员告诉美国广播公司新闻。
无国界医生组织的Ghassan Abu Sittah医生当时正在进行手术。
“发生了强烈的爆炸，手术室的天花板掉了下来，”他说。“这是一场大屠杀。”
2023年10月17日，在加沙地带中部的加沙城，空袭后，受伤的巴勒斯坦人躺在al-Shifa医院。
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拜登总统在周二晚上的一份书面声明中说，他“对加沙的阿里阿拉伯医院发生的爆炸以及由此造成的可怕的生命损失感到愤怒和深切的悲痛。”
他的声明继续说:“听到这个消息后，我立即与约旦国王阿卜杜拉二世和以色列总理内塔尼亚胡进行了交谈，并指示我的国家安全小组继续收集有关究竟发生了什么的信息。美国明确支持在冲突中保护平民生命，我们哀悼在这场悲剧中丧生或受伤的病人、医务人员和其他无辜者，”
世界卫生组织谴责对医院的袭击，并呼吁“立即积极保护平民和医护人员”。
世卫组织在一份声明中说，这家医院“是加沙地带北部面临以色列军方疏散命令的20家医院之一”。“鉴于目前的不安全状况，许多病人的危急状况，以及缺乏救护车、工作人员、卫生系统床位能力和流离失所者的替代住所，疏散命令一直无法执行。”
联合国近东巴勒斯坦难民救济和工程处星期二早些时候说，加沙医院估计还有不到24小时的燃料。
巴勒斯坦权力机构主席阿巴斯宣布在袭击发生后哀悼三天。
Hundreds killed in strike on Gaza hospital: Gaza Health Ministry
At least 500 peoplehave been killed in a strikeon Al Ahli Arab Hospital in the middle of Gaza City, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.
The hospital served as a shelter for thousands of residents whofled their homes in northern Gaza, seekingsafety from Israeli airstrikes. Residents stranded in Gaza are running out of medicine, food, water and power.
The Israel Defense Forces denied responsibility for the attack, saying a failed launch by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad caused the blast.
"From the analysis of the operational systems of the IDF, an enemy rocket barrage was carried out towards Israel, which passed in the vicinity of the hospital, when it was hit," IDF said.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, "The barbaric terrorists in Gaza are the ones who attacked the hospital."
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However, U.S. officials at this point "just don't know where the rocket came from," a senior U.S. official told ABC News.
Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah from Doctors Without Borders was operating at the time.
"There was a strong explosion, and the ceiling fell on the operating room," he said. "This is a massacre."
President Biden said in a written statement Tuesday evening that he was "outraged and deeply saddened by the explosion at the Al Ahli Arab hospital in Gaza, and the terrible loss of life that resulted."
His statement continued: "Immediately upon hearing this news, I spoke with King Abdullah II of Jordan, and Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel and have directed my national security team to continue gathering information about what exactly happened. The United States stands unequivocally for the protection of civilian life during conflict and we mourn the patients, medical staff and other innocents killed or wounded in this tragedy,"
The World Health Organization condemned the attack on the hospital and called for "the immediate active protection of civilians and health care" workers.
This hospital "was one of 20 in the north of the Gaza Strip facing evacuation orders from the Israeli military," the WHO said in a statement. "The 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."
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency said earlier Tuesday that Gaza hospitals were estimated to have less than 24 hours of fuel left.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has declared three days of mourning following the attack.
