US President Joe Biden tells Benjamin Netanyahu that it "appears to have been the other team, not yours" that carried out the attack on a hospital in Gaza on Tuesday night. This is reported by AP.
Israel has blamed Islamic Jihad while Hamas has blamed Israel for the explosion at the Al Ahli hospital where hundreds of people may have died.
During the meeting with the Prime Minister of Israel, Biden is expected, according to the New York Times, to try to calm the situation in the area and bring about a functioning humanitarian aid to Gaza.
Biden will also, among other things, meet victims of Hamas attacks and relatives of the nearly 200 people who are believed to be held hostage by the terrorist group Hamas.
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Analysis: No matter who is behind it - the attack changes the game
It is still unclear what is behind the explosion at Al Ahli Hospital in Gaza in which hundreds of Palestinians are believed to have been killed. But the incident could still radically change the situation in the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas, write several Swedish newspapers in analytical texts today.
"The widespread support that Israel received around the world after the Hamas terrorist attack can now be quickly eroded," observes Olle Lönnaeus in Sydsvenskan.
The hospital attack also comes untimely for Joe Biden, who is visiting Israel today, among other things with the hope of mitigating the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. His plans have already been disrupted after a number of regional leaders canceled their meetings with the president over the attack.
"For most people in the Arab world, the images of Biden next to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the hours after the hospital massacre will speak volumes," writes Mats Larsson in Expressen.
Egypt says no to evacuating Gaza - says it will make peace impossible
Egypt will not accept any "large influx" of refugees from Gaza.
That is what the country's president Abd al-Fatah al-Sisi says, according to Reuters.
- What is happening now in Gaza is an attempt to force the population to migrate to Egypt, which should not be accepted.
Egypt is the only country besides Israel that has a border with the area.
The Egyptian president warns that if Gaza's two million residents are forced to flee, it may be very difficult to achieve lasting peace.
- The Palestinian state that we and the rest of the world are talking about will be impossible to implement - because the land will be there, but not the population, he says according to AFP.
On Wednesday, al-Sisi met German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. Both countries say they want to lead the way for a peaceful solution to the conflict. Egypt has previously been one of the few countries with relatively good relations with both Israel and Palestine.
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Scholz calls for investigation - Israel accuses Hamas of inflating death toll
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz demands that the explosion at the Al Ahli hospital in Gaza, where hundreds of people may have been killed, be investigated.
"I am filled with horror at the images from the explosion in a hospital in Gaza. Innocent civilians have been injured and killed. A thorough investigation of the incident is absolutely necessary," writes Scholz on X, according to AFP.
Several other world leaders have also reacted, including the EU's Ursula von der Leyen, who writes on X that "the guilty must be held accountable".
Israel and Hamas blame each other for the explosion, and now Israel's military also accuses Hamas of inflating the death toll. Reuters reports.
According to the Israeli military, there are also no signs of a direct hit on the hospital or anything to indicate an airstrike.
Hamas claims that as many as 500 died in the explosion. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), it is, according to preliminary data, "hundreds of deaths and injuries".
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