In frames: Rubble, blood, and human suffering in Gaza

Updated: Oct 18, 2023, 7:12 PM |
Published: Oct 18, 2023, 6:59 PM

Israel bombed a hospital in Gaza on Tuesday evening killing at least 500 people including patients and doctors, according to Gaza Health Ministry. The Israeli military has denied involvement and blamed a misfired rocket from the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, another militant group. However, that organization also rejected responsibility. US President Joe Biden arrived in Israel amid the carnage in Gaza and said the airstrike on the Gaza hospital "appeared to not have been caused by Israel". As per the latest updates from the beleaguered region, almost 3,450 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza since Hamas’s October 7 attack inside Israel, which killed more than 1,400 people. Another 1,200 people across Gaza are believed to be buried under the rubble, alive or dead. More than 10,000 people are injured in Gaza and the West Bank. The World Food Program has warned that Gaza’s population is at “the risk of starvation” if 310 tons of food aid languishing at the Gaza-Egypt Rafah crossing are not urgently let through. Here are some of the pictures from the Gaza Strip which is fast turning into a city of death and destruction.

Wounded Palestinians at Ahli Arab hospital at the al-Shifa hospital, following Israeli airstrikes, in Gaza City, central Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023. The war that began Oct. 7 has become the deadliest of five Gaza wars for both sides. The Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry said Wednesday that 3,478 Palestinians have been killed and more than 12,000 injured in the past 11 days. (AP Photo)

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A man holds the body of a child killed in Israeli airstrike in Gaza on Tuesday. The besieged Gaza was pummeled by air strikes on the 12th day as well in the ongoing war between Israel and Palestine that has left nearly 5,000 people dead on either side. Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad Malki accused Israel of “intentionally” bombing a hospital in Gaza and said the strip's residents are being subjected to genocide. Malki, who spoke in Saudi Arabia during a Wednesday meeting of the 57-nation Organization of Islamic Cooperation, alleged the Israeli military had attacked the same hospital two days earlier and warned doctors there. He added that he thinks the international community is allowing Israel to kill under the “slogan of self-defense.”