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KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip -- A major blast rocked a Gaza City hospital packed with wounded people and other Palestinians seeking shelter Tuesday, killing hundreds of people, the Hamas-run Health Ministry said. Hamas blamed an Israeli airstrike, while the Israeli military said the hospital was hit by a rocket misfired by Palestinian militants.
Lebanon has said continued "aggression" against Gaza could spark "fire that could consume the whole region". Protests have spread around the Arab world since a deadly blast at a hospital in Gaza - for which both sides have exchanged blame.
He is expected to make clear that Israel has the right to defend itself. Read more at straitstimes.com.
President Joe Biden's decision to visit Israel caps a week of intense US diplomacy aimed at shoring up its closest Middle East ally and trying to prevent Israel's war with Hamas from spreading to the region. The Americans are worried that the audacity of the Hamas attack and the ferocity of the Israeli counter-offensive could spark violence in the West Bank and beyond. The president will be joining his Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, who's been on a frantic swing through the Middle East.
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