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Hezbollah announces ‘day of unprecedented anger’ against Israel, Biden’s visit

Lebanon’s Hezbollah denounced what the group said was Israel’s deadly attack on a Gaza hospital and called for “a day of unprecedented anger” on Wednesday, as protests erupted outside the US embassy in Beirut just hours after the incident.

Iran-backed Hezbollah, which fought a war with Israel in 2006, made the call for the day of protest in Beirut in a statement late on Tuesday after Palestinian officials said hundreds of people were killed in the strike on the hospital.

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.

Islamic Jihad denied that any of its rockets were involved in the hospital blast.

 Demonstrators set fire to a makeshift Israeli flag during a protest, after hundreds of Palestinians were killed in a blast at Al-Ahli hospital in Gaza that Israeli and Palestinian officials blamed on each other, near the Israeli Consulate in Istanbul, Turkey October 18, 2023. (credit: REUTERS/DILARA SENKAYA)
Demonstrators set fire to a makeshift Israeli flag during a protest, after hundreds of Palestinians were killed in a blast at Al-Ahli hospital in Gaza that Israeli and Palestinian officials blamed on each other, near the Israeli Consulate in Istanbul, Turkey October 18, 2023. (credit: REUTERS/DILARA SENKAYA)

Protests erupt after hospital explosion

Hundreds of Lebanese protesters, some waving Palestinian flags, gathered late into Tuesday night outside the US embassy in response to the incident. Others gathered outside the French embassy in Beirut.

Tear gas was fired at protesters near the US embassy in Lebanon.

In denouncing what the group said was a strike by Israel, Hezbollah said in its statement: “The attack reveals the true criminal face of this entity and its sponsor … the United States, which bears direct and complete responsibility for this massacre.”

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