Israel war in the live ticker
+++02:01 Biden “outraged and deeply sad” about hospital explosion +++
October 18, 2023, 12:22 a.m
US President Joe Biden is on his way to a solidarity visit to Israel. Biden said on He said he spoke to Jordan’s King Abdullah II and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and “instructed the national security team to continue gathering information about what exactly happened.” The planned meeting with Jordanian King Abdullah II, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has been canceled.
+++ 01:50 Medvedev blames USA for hospital attack +++
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev indirectly blames the government in Washington for the rocket strike in Al-Ahli al-Arabi Hospital. “The terrible attack on a hospital in the Gaza Strip is clearly a war crime,” Medvedev wrote on Telegram. “Who mindlessly spends colossal amounts of money on weapons and supercharges their military-industrial complex. Who falsely proclaim that they want to protect democratic values worldwide. The USA.”
+++ 01:26 Israel’s air force attacks Hezbollah targets +++
The Israeli military is again attacking pro-Iranian Hezbollah positions in Lebanon. Warplanes hit a Shiite militia observation post and military infrastructure in response to repeated shelling of Israel from Lebanon, the Israeli military said on Telegram.
+++ 00:52 Pro-Palest protests in Berlin +++
Several hundred people took part in a peaceful pro-Palestinian vigil this evening at Pariser Platz in front of the Brandenburg Gate. After the end of the event, there were attacks on police forces. After several loudspeaker announcements asking people to leave the place, the unauthorized gathering was dispersed. says the police. There are also protests in the Neukölln district, but unlike the vigil, these have not been registered. “In the Sonnenallee and Pannierstrasse area, pyrotechnics were set off several times by people, some of whom were masked,” writes the police on X. Barricades are said to have been erected and set on fire.
+++ 00:13 Scholz lands in Cairo +++
Chancellor Olaf Scholz arrives in Cairo after his visit to Israel. The departure was delayed due to a rocket alarm in Tel Aviv. The passengers had to leave the plane. Scholz was taken into a building and the other passengers were asked to lie on the floor on the tarmac. Scholz wants to meet Egyptian head of state Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Cairo in the evening.
+++ 00:55 Jordan’s king cancels meeting with Biden +++
Jordan is canceling a meeting between King Abdullah II and US President Joe Biden planned for Wednesday. The meeting, which Egypt’s head of state Abdel Fattah al-Sisi was also scheduled to take part in, will only take place if there is an agreement to end the war and stop “these massacres,” Foreign Minister Ayman al-Safadi told the Jordanian TV channel Al -Mamlaka.
+++ 23:26 Hezbollah calls for a “Day of Wrath” +++
After a rocket hit a hospital in the Gaza Strip, the pro-Iranian militia Hezbollah declared a “day of unprecedented anger” against Israel. The Shiite organization says this is also directed against US President Joe Biden’s solidarity visit to Israel planned for Wednesday. Words of condemnation were no longer enough, according to Hezbollah. She calls on people in the Arab and Islamic world to express their outrage through protests.
+++ 23:00 Clinic met: Countries request meeting of the World Security Council +++
According to the wishes of several countries, the UN Security Council is supposed to deal with the rocket that hit a hospital in the Gaza Strip. The United Arab Emirates and Russia are requesting an emergency meeting of the most powerful UN body, diplomatic circles say. Brazil, which currently chairs the committee, has not yet confirmed the meeting. There are consultations.
+++ 22:50 Netanyahu: Israel did not attack the hospital +++
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu strictly denies responsibility for a rocket hitting a hospital in the Gaza Strip. “The whole world should know: it was barbaric terrorists in Gaza who attacked the hospital in Gaza,” Netanyahu said. It wasn’t the Israeli military. “Those who brutally murdered our children are also murdering their own children,” Netanyahu continued.
+++ 22:38 Highest warning level: Israelis should leave Türkiye +++
Israel urges its citizens to leave Turkey for fear of retaliation. The alert level for the country has been raised to the highest warning level (high threat), the National Security Council announced. All Israelis are urged to leave the country as quickly as possible. The background is concern about attacks. The country is also issuing a travel warning for Morocco, where Israeli tourists are urged to be “particularly careful”.
+++ 22:26 Scholz plane after evacuation on the way to Cairo +++
After the interim evacuation, the plane with Chancellor Olaf Scholz set off for Cairo from Tel Aviv on Tuesday evening. Scholz had previously been taken from the plane into a car and then into an air raid shelter in Tel Aviv because of an air raid alarm. According to a spokesman, Scholz saw two intercepted missiles.
+++ 22:15 Abbas cancels meeting with Biden +++
After the shelling of a hospital in Gaza, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas spoke of a “horrific crime, a genocide.” The countries that supported Israel also bear responsibility for this. According to Palestinian sources, Abbas also canceled a planned meeting with US President Joe Biden because of the attack. Biden and Abbas planned to meet in Jordan on Wednesday. Abbas has now returned to Ramallah, his seat of government in the occupied West Bank.
+++ 22:00 Israeli army blames Islamic Jihad for attack on Gaza clinic +++
The Israeli army blames the Palestinian organization Islamic Jihad for the fatal attack on a hospital complex in Gaza. “According to intelligence information based on several sources available to us, Islamic Jihad is responsible for a failed rocket attack that hit the hospital,” the army said in a statement. Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, had previously blamed Israel for the attack and said that “between 200 and 300 people” were killed.
+++ 21:49 Abbas declares three days of national mourning +++
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has declared three days of national mourning following the alleged deaths of numerous Palestinians in a hospital in the Gaza Strip. Palestinian flags should be flown at half-mast, Palestinian news agency Wafa reports.
+++ 21:36 “Unprecedented brutality”: Erdogan blames Israel for the clinic shelling +++
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan condemns the shelling of a clinic in the Gaza Strip and blames Israel for it. The shelling of a hospital housing women, children and innocent civilians is the latest example of Israeli attacks that are devoid of the most basic human values, Erdogan said on X (Twitter). He calls on all of humanity to stop this “brutality unprecedented in history.”
+++ 21:21 Scholz’s delegation has to leave the plane due to a missile alarm +++
Before taking off from Tel Aviv to Cairo, Chancellor Scholz’s delegation had to suddenly leave the plane due to a missile alarm. Scholz was driven into a building in a car and the other passengers were asked to lie on the ground on the airfield. Two anti-aircraft missiles were fired, which could be clearly heard on the airfield. After a few minutes, the passengers were able to get back on the plane.
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