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Both departments are under the Hamas-run government.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The</span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Israel Defense Forces (IDF) claimed an initial investigation showed the explosion was caused by a failed Hamas rocket launch, </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">i24NEWS</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> reported. </span>\r\n\r\n<b>Read more in Daily Maverick:</b> <a href=\"https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/middle-east-crisis-news-hub/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Middle East Crisis News Hub</span></a>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Earlier on Tuesday, the United Nations Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA said an Israeli air strike had killed at least six people after striking one of its schools that has been functioning as a shelter for displaced people.</span>\r\n\r\n[embed]https://twitter.com/MSF/status/1714363236315779572?t=BbQOSYgkFtLoyDgVHlHzAg&s=19[/embed]\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Health authorities in Gaza say at least 3,000 people have been killed in Israel’s intense 11-day bombardment since Hamas militants rampaged into Israeli towns on 6 October, killing more than 1,300 civilians and soldiers.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hamas said the blast at the hospital mostly killed displaced people. A senior official for the internationally recognised Palestinian Authority, which operates in the West Bank but not in Gaza, described it as a massacre. </span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Israel’s military denied responsibility for the bombing, saying military intelligence suggested the hospital was hit by a failed rocket launch by the enclave's Palestinian Islamic Jihad military group.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Following are reactions to the bombing:</span>\r\n<h4><b>World Health Organization</b></h4>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\"WHO strongly condemns the attack on al-Ahli Arab Hospital in the north of the Gaza Strip. The hospital was operational, with patients, health and care givers, and internally displaced people sheltering there. Early reports indicate hundreds of fatalities and injuries.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\"The hospital was one of 20 in the north of the Gaza Strip facing evacuation orders from the Israeli military. 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.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\"WHO calls for the immediate active protection of civilians and health care. Evacuation orders must be reversed. International humanitarian law must be abided by, which means health care must be actively protected and never targeted.</span>\r\n<h4><b>Palestinian Hamas leader Ismail Haniyehi</b></h4>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\"The hospital massacre confirms the enemy's brutality and the extent of his feeling of defeat,\" he said, adding that the attack will be \"a new turning point\".</span>\r\n<h4><b>Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu</b></h4>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\"The entire world should know: It was barbaric terrorists in Gaza that attacked the hospital in Gaza, and not the IDF. Those who brutally murdered our children also murder their own children.\"</span>\r\n<h4><b>Israel Defence Forces spokesperson</b></h4>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\"An analysis of IDF operational systems indicates that a barrage of rockets was fired by terrorists in Gaza, passing in close proximity to the al-Ahli hospital in Gaza at the time it was hit.</span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\"Intelligence from multiple sources we have in our hands indicates that Islamic Jihad is responsible for the failed rocket launch which hit the hospital in Gaza.\"</span>\r\n<h4><b>Syrian Presidency</b></h4>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\"Syria holds Western countries responsible especially the </span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">United States of America, for this massacre and others, since </span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">they are a partner of the Zionist entity across all organised </span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">operations designed to kill Palestinians.\"</span>\r\n<h4><b>Turkish President </b><b>Recep Tayyip Erdoğan</b></h4>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\"I call on all humanity to take action to stop this unprecedented brutality in Gaza.” <strong>DM</strong></span>\r\n\r\n<em>(Additional reporting by <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dan Whitcomb; Editing by Cynthia Osterman and Sandra Maler.)</span></em>\r\n\r\n<em>This is a developing story and will be updated.</em>",
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