Here are 10 points on this big story:
US President Joe Biden landed in Israel today on a "solidarity" visit following last week's Hamas attacks that left over 1,400 Israelis dead. Biden, aboard Air Force One, touched down at the Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv where Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu personally welcomed him on the tarmac.
"Intelligence from multiple sources we have indicates that Islamic Jihad is responsible for the failed rocket launch which hit the hospital in Gaza," the Israeli army said. Spokesperson Daniel Hagari said at a press conference that during the time of the strike, Israel was not conducting any aerial operations near the hospital and the rockets that were used did not match their equipment.
The Islamic Jihad, a Hamas ally, released a statement that read: "The Zionist enemy is trying hard to evade its responsibility for the brutal massacre he committed by bombing the Baptist Arab National Hospital in Gaza through his usual fabrication of lies, and through pointing the finger of blame at the Islamic Jihad movement in Palestine."
Following the hospital bombing, US President Joe Biden, who arrived in Israel today, spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. "I am outraged and deeply saddened by the explosion at the Al-Ahli Arab hospital in Gaza, and the terrible loss of life that resulted," Biden said in a statement.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres strongly condemned the deadly airstrike, calling it a "horrific" attack. "My heart is with the families of the victims. Hospitals and medical personnel are protected under international humanitarian law," Guterres posted on X.
Hundreds protested outside the UK and France embassies in Iran's Tehran as regional outrage grew over the bombing. Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi announced a day of "public mourning" and blamed Israel, and its ally the US, for the attack. "The flames of the US-Israeli bombs, dropped this evening on the Palestinian victims injured at the... hospital in Gaza, will soon consume the Zionists," Raisi said.
The Iran-backed Hezbollah group in Lebanon, also involved in the regional war that started on October 7, called for a "day of rage" to condemn the strike. Let tomorrow, Wednesday, be a day of rage against the enemy," Hezbollah said in a statement, calling on fellow Muslims and Arabs to "move immediately to streets and squares to express intense anger".
While war and death raged in Gaza, the West Bank saw Palestinian security forces in Ramallah clash with protesters who were throwing rocks and raising slogans against President Mahmoud Abbas. Tear gas and stun grenades were used to disperse the angry protesters.
Over 1 million people have fled northern Gaza and moved to the south. The UN has warned that Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip are being squeezed into smaller and smaller areas, with essential life-saving supplies running out. The UN called for a humanitarian truce to allow aid to be delivered.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) termed the hospital strike as "unprecedented in its scale", adding that 115 healthcare facilities in Gaza have been attacked, leaving most of the city's hospitals out of operation.
White House Slams Violence Against West Bank Palestinian Settlers By Israel Ceasefire Must Involve "Complete" Israeli Withdrawal From Gaza: Hamas Gaza Ceasefire Talks Underway In Qatar As Deaths Top 40,000 Who Is Jasveen Sangha, "Ketamine Queen" Charged With Matthew Perry's Death "Don't Expect Anything From Me": Kolkata Hospital's New Principal Loses Cool 2,000 Meth Pills, "Ketamine Lollipops": Inside Jasveen Sangha's "Drug Emporium" Mamata Banerjee To Take Out Rally Over Rape-Murder. Trinamool Explains Why UPSC National Defence Academy 2 Admit Card to Be Released Soon UGC NET City Intimation Slips For August 27 Exam To Be Out Shortly Track Latest News Live on NDTV.com and get news updates from India and around the world.