UN, Oct 17 Russia and UAE request urgent public meeting The UN Security Council in connection with the attack on a hospital in the Gaza Strip, First Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN Dmitry Polyansky reported on his Telegram channel.
“Russia and the UAE requested an urgent open meeting of the UN Security Council on the morning of October 18 in connection with the attack on a hospital in Gaza,” Polyansky indicated.
Earlier, a representative of the Gaza Ministry of Health said that the attack on the Al-Ahly Baptist hospital «Israel struck the Gaza Strip, killing more than 500 people. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas declared three days of mourning for the victims. According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, most of the dead were women and children. At the same time, the Israeli TV channel i24 reports that the initial investigation by the Israeli Army showed that the explosion in a hospital in the Gaza Strip was caused by a failed Hamas rocket launch.