Hospital in Gaza Blows Up, US Says Hamas But Who is Listening Anymore

In the news today: Gaza’s doctors are struggling to save hospital blast survivors; California’s governor delivers some wins and some surprises; and China’s Belt and Road Initiative is changing after a decade of projects that boosted trade but left massive debts. Also, a look at how you can grow your own cup of coffee from home. Wounded Palestinians sit in Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City after arriving from Al-Ahli hospital on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Abed Khaled)   By Sarah Naffa     ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR Gaza’s doctors struggle to save hospital blast survivors as Middle East rage grows Doctors in Gaza City faced with dwindling medical supplies performed surgery on hospital floors, often without anesthesia, in a desperate bid to save badly wounded victims of a massive blast that killed civilians sheltering in a nearby hospital amid Israeli bombings and a blockade of the territory. Read more.

Recent developments: A massive blast rocked Gaza’s Al-Ahli Arab hospital packed with wounded and other those seeking shelter on Tuesday. Hamas blamed an Israeli airstrike, while the Israeli military blamed a rocket misfired by other Palestinian militants. At least 500 people were killed, the Hamas-run Health Ministry said. U.S. President Joe Biden has landed in Israel in hopes of stopping a spread of the war. Jordan’s foreign minister said his country canceled a meeting there between Biden, Jordan’s King Abdullah II, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi. Hundreds of Palestinians flooded the streets of major West Bank cities including Ramallah. More people joined protests that erupted in Beirut, Lebanon and Amman, Jordan, where an angry crowd gathered outside the Israeli Embassy.