US President Joe Biden Leaves for Israel Trip _ VOA News

U.S. President Joe Biden departs for a trip to Israel, hours after a strike on a Gaza hospital that killed at least 200 people and further raised Middle East tensions.

Hamas militants blamed Israel for the attack on Gaza City's Al-Ahli Arab Hospital, saying in a statement that there were "hundreds of casualties, most of them displaced families, patients, children and women." Palestinian authorities said the death toll was about 500.

The Israel Defense Forces denied being at fault, saying an errant rocket fired by the paramilitary Palestinian Islamic Jihad struck the hospital. The militant group denied it was responsible.

Hamas called the explosion "a crime of genocide that once again reveals the ugly face of this criminal enemy and its fascist and terrorist government."

Hamas, which launched the October 7 terror attack on Israel that killed 1,400 people and has long refused to recognize the Jewish state, said "the international community and the Arab and Islamic countries must assume their responsibilities and intervene immediately, now and not tomorrow ... to stop the arrogance of the occupation and its fascist army."

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