Outrage, condemnation over deadly Gaza hospital strike

PARIS, France — A strike on a Gaza hospital compound which health officials there said killed at least 200 people has provoked outrage and condemnation from around the world.

Here are some of the major reactions:

The African Union chief Moussa Faki Mahamat accused Israel of a "war crime" following the deadly strike. 

"There are no words to fully express our condemnation of Israel's bombing of a #Gaza hospital today, killing hundreds of people," Faki said on X, formerly Twitter, calling for the international community to act.

EU chief Charles Michel said that targeting civilian infrastructure in Gaza breaks international law. 

"An attack against a civilian infrastructure is not in line with international law," Michel said after a videoconference of EU leaders. 

EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell later wrote on social media that "the news coming from the Al-Ahli Arabi Baptist hospital in Gaza add horror to the tragedy unfolding before our eyes since days."

French President Emmanuel Macron said "nothing can justify targeting civilians" after a deadly strike on a Gaza hospital and called for humanitarian access to the coastal strip "without delay".

"Nothing can justify a strike against a hospital. Nothing can justify targeting civilians. France condemns the attack on the Al-Ahli Arabi hospital in Gaza which caused so many Palestinian victims. We think of them," he wrote on X, formerly Twitter.

"Humanitarian access to the Gaza Strip must be opened without delay."

Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah movement on Tuesday called for a "day of rage" to condemn a strike on a Gaza Strip hospital, blaming Israel for what it called a "massacre".

"Let tomorrow, Wednesday, be a day of rage against the enemy," Hezbollah, an ally of Hamas militants who are at war with Israel, said in a statement, calling the strike a "massacre" and "brutal crime".

Israel's army blamed a rocket misfired by Islamic Jihad, another Gaza-based militant group.

Israel bears "responsibility for this grave incident," a Jordanian foreign ministry statement said, "strongly condemning" the incident.

Amman subsequently announced the cancellation of a summit on brokering peace in the region due to involve US