Group protest in front of British High Commission in Lefkosa after hundreds killed in Gaza hospital blast

There was protest in Lefkosa on Tuesday night following the Israeli attack on the al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza, which killed hundreds civilians lives.

The demonstrators demanded an immediate halt to the attacks targeting Gaza.

A group of people reacting to Israel’s hospital attack gathered in front of the British High Commission office in Lefkoşa on Tuesday and shouted slogans.

Carrying Turkish, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) and Palestinian flags, the protesters read out a press statement in which they stated that Israel massacred Palestinian civilians without discriminating between babies, children, women and men by attacking the hospital on live broadcast and called on the international community to stop the attacks on Gaza.

After the reading of the press release, the protesters organized a convoy with vehicles and toured around the streets of Lefkosa.

The Gazan health ministry spokesman, Ashraf Al-Qudra, said early on Wednesday that hundreds were killed and rescue workers were still removing bodies from the rubble. In the first hours after the blast, a Gaza civil defence chief said 300 people were killed, while health ministry sources put the figure at 500.

A Gaza health ministry spokesman said hundreds were killed in a blast at a Gaza City hospital on Tuesday that Israeli and Palestinian officials blamed on each other and that ignited protests in the West Bank and around the Middle East.

Israel’s military said on Wednesday it had seen no evidence of a direct hit by aerial munitions on a hospital in the Gaza Strip the day before, where hundreds of Palestinians were killed in an explosion.

Hamas, the Palestinian militant group that controls Gaza, has blamed the blast on Israel. Israel says it was a result of a failed rocket launch by Palestinian Islamic Jihad, another militant group in the enclave.