Countries and international organizations condemned the massacre committed by the Israeli occupation forces by bombing the Baptist Hospital in Gaza, while the Palestinian President declared three days of mourning and called on the Palestinian factions in the West Bank to escalate the confrontation with the occupation.

The Ministry of Health in Gaza announced that the number of victims of the Israeli bombing that targeted the courtyard of the Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza had risen to 500 martyrs, most of whom were women and children.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas declared three days of mourning, stressing that the occupation’s bombing of the Baptist Hospital was a crime of genocide and a humanitarian catastrophe.

The Associated Press quoted a Palestinian official as saying that President Abbas canceled his scheduled meeting with US President Joe Biden tomorrow, Wednesday, in Jordan.

Russia and the UAE also requested an urgent meeting of the Security Council tomorrow, Wednesday, after the Israeli air strike on a hospital in Gaza.

Prime Minister Al-Kandari, Justin Trudeau, described the attack as "horrific and completely unacceptable."

Trudeau said the news from Gaza is "catastrophic, it's terrible, it's unacceptable."

The World Health Organization also strongly condemned the attack on the National Arab Hospital in Gaza. Egypt condemned "in the strongest terms" the Israeli air strike, which resulted in the deaths of hundreds of Palestinians, saying that the international community must urgently intervene to stop such violations.

A statement by the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Tuesday that Cairo “considered this deliberate bombing of civilian facilities and targets a serious violation of the provisions of international and humanitarian law, and of the most basic values of humanity. It calls on Israel to immediately stop its policies of collective punishment against the people of the Gaza Strip.”

Jordan "strongly condemned the Israeli attack on a hospital in Gaza, which led to the death of hundreds of injured and displaced civilians," according to a Foreign Ministry statement.

The Jordanian statement stressed the need to provide protection for the Palestinian people, and called for immediate concerted efforts to stop the raging war in Gaza.

At the same time, Palestinian Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh condemned the attack and described it as a "horrific crime," saying that countries supporting Israel bear full responsibility "for this crime."

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that the attack on a hospital in Gaza is "the latest example of Israeli attacks devoid of the most basic human values."

“I call on all of humanity to take action to stop this unprecedented brutality in Gaza,” Erdogan wrote on the social media platform X.

In a statement, the Qatari Ministry of Foreign Affairs denounced “in the strongest terms the Israeli bombing of Al-Ahly Baptist Hospital in Gaza, which killed hundreds of civilians.”

The Qatari statement said, "The expansion of Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip to include... hospitals, schools, and population centers is considered a dangerous escalation in the course of the confrontations and portends dire consequences for the security and stability of the region."

Video clips showed ambulances transporting the dead and injured, in addition to a fire breaking out as a result of the bombing. A video clip captured the moment the hospital was bombed.

A correspondent for Al-Hurra TV confirmed that dozens of people were killed in an Israeli bombing, on Tuesday, that targeted a hospital in central Gaza City.

The correspondent said that the bombing targeted the Al-Ahli (Baptist) Hospital in the Al-Shuja’iya neighborhood in the center of Gaza City, noting that families had sought refuge in this hospital to seek shelter in it and its courtyards.

In another Israeli raid, at least six people who were displaced to a United Nations school in the Gaza Strip were killed on Tuesday, according to what the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) announced, which described this as “disgraceful.”

The agency said in a statement, “At least six people were killed this afternoon, when an UNRWA school was bombed in the Maghazi refugee camp” in the central Gaza Strip.

Source: Reuters and Al Hurra