“Let tomorrow, Wednesday, be a day of wrath against the enemy,” Hezbollah said in a statement, urging Muslims and Arabs to “immediately take to the streets and squares to express their intense anger.”
Hezbollah, which is allied with the terror-labelled Islamist group Hamas, blamed the bombing on Israel, calling it a “massacre” and a “brutal crime”.
The Israeli military (IDF), for its part, claims innocence and says that Islamic Jihad, another Palestinian armed group in Gaza, fired several rockets near the hospital and that one of them misfired.
Hundreds of protesters
At Hezbollah’s urging, hundreds of protesters gathered and clashed with Lebanese security forces outside the US embassy in Awkar, northern Lebanon. The protesters threw stones and set fire to a building, according to an AFP correspondent on the scene.
Police fired tear gas at the protesters who chanted “death to America” and “death to Israel”.
Several hundred protesters also gathered outside the French embassy in Beirut where they raised a Hezbollah flag and threw stones at the embassy’s entrance.
Also from the Iranian capital, Tehran, there were reports of protests during the night of Wednesday.
New evidence
On Wednesday morning, Daniel Hagari, a spokesman for the Israeli army, said that Israel was not carrying out any attacks at all at the time of the explosion at the hospital. He says Islamic Jihad fired several rockets near the hospital and one of them misfired.
As proof, the IDF has published images that will show that it was jihad rockets that caused the mass death.
“This is the tragic result of firing rockets from densely populated neighborhoods,” writes the IDF.