RT News - October 18th 2023 Late

Warning - some gruesome and disturbing images

Russia's Ambassador to the UN says (again) that only a ceasefire can prevent further bloodshed in the middle east conflict

A desperate search for survivors continues, after a packed hospital in Gaza was hit in an airstrike, leaving hundreds dead. A doctor gives his account of the strike and says "this is a war crime that the world has seen coming"

Hamza Chalan reports from the hospital which is (was) the oldest in Gaza.

An IDF spokesperson spoke from Tel Aviv with a press statement saying Hamas fired the missile.

Reports and opinion from other countries.

Pres. Biden says "it was done by the other team"

Around the world people take to the streets in protests, shocked at the scale of the devastation at the hospital, and expressing their support for the Palestinian people.

Jordan cancelled the summit meeting to be held there between Pres. Abdel Fatah el-Sisi (Egypt) & Pres. Abbas (Palestine) and FM Ayman Safadi said it would achieve nothing. Director of Jerusalem's centre for political studies, Oraib Al-Rantawi discusses with Mourad

Khan Yunis was under fire yesterday with devastating results.

Protests in Jenin drew IDF rubber bullets and fire as they tried to disperse the demonstrators. Report from Maria Finoshina.

Caleb Maupin reports on the failed efforts (by veto) of the Russian Ambassador Nebenzia's attempts to get a resolution for a ceasefire (again). China expressed shock and disappointment (again)