2023-10-18 05:37:36
A “massacre” and a “brutal crime”. After the deadly strike on a hospital in Gaza on Tuesday evening, Lebanese Hezbollah called to observe a “day of anger” this Wednesday.
“May tomorrow, Wednesday, be a day of anger against the enemy,” called this ally of Palestinian Hamas in a press release.
According to the health ministry in Gaza, an enclave governed by Hamas militants at war against Israel, at least 200 people were killed during an Israeli strike on a hospital where displaced people had taken refuge. The Israeli army denied any responsibility, citing a failed rocket attack by Islamic Jihad, another Palestinian armed group.
Hezbollah’s call came as hundreds of protesters gathered outside the US embassy in Awkar, a northern suburb of the capital Beirut, where they chanted “death to America” and “death to to Israel,” according to AFP correspondents.
National day of mourning in Lebanon
Lebanese security forces fired tear gas to disperse protesters who were throwing stones at the embassy, many of them covering their faces with Palestinian keffiyehs, according to these correspondents.
Hundreds of people also gathered in front of the French embassy in Beirut, waving Palestinian flags and also throwing stones at the embassy’s main entrance.
Lebanese demonstrators in the streets of Beirut on Tuesday evening. AFP/ANWAR AMRO AFP or licensors
Angry protests also took place in Palestinian refugee camps in the southern Lebanese cities of Sidon and Tyre. Palestinian factions in Lebanon called for mass rallies on Wednesday to condemn the hospital shooting.
Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati declared a day of national mourning on Wednesday.
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