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Tuesday, October 17, 2023
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Tuesday, October 17, 2023
Abbas announces three days of mourning over deadly Gaza hospital blast
FILE - Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly, September 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas declares three days of mourning after what he calls a “hospital massacre” in Gaza, a strike that Hamas officials blame on Israel and say killed several hundred people.
The IDF says it is still investigating the blast and whether or not it was caused by an Israeli airstrike.
Abbas announces “public mourning for three days and flags flown at half-mast for the martyrs of the Baptist hospital massacre and all our people’s martyrs,” the official Palestinian news agency Wafa says.
