The first protests and attacks by Arab protesters against embassies of Israel, the United States and other countries are recorded

Several attacks by protesters against diplomatic headquarters of Israel and the United States have been recorded in different parts of the world after the bombing of a hospital in Gaza, within the framework of the current conflict between the Israeli authorities and the Islamist group Hamas, local media reported.

The largest demonstrations took place in Turkey, where a total of 63 people, including 43 police officers, were injured and five were arrested. Additionally, a 65-year-old protester died of a heart attack in Istanbul.

“We ask our citizens who want to react to Israel's bombings against civilians (in Gaza), which resemble terrorist attacks, to avoid irreparable actions,” the Istanbul Governorate Office said in a statement.

Thousands of people took to the streets in Istanbul, Ankara and Adana on Tuesday night to express their condemnation of the bombing of the hospital in Gaza. The protesters chanted slogans such as “Israel, murderer, out of Palestine” or “Greetings to Hamas, continue the resistance”, in reference to the Palestinian radical Islamist group that triggered the current war with its terrorist attack on October 7, which left about 1,400 dead, mostly Israeli civilians.

Protesters also threw stones and Molotov cocktails at the diplomatic headquarters in Ankara, Istanbul and Adana, while trying to enter those diplomatic compounds, which the police prevented using tear gas.

Lebanon, Iraq and Jordan

Incidents have also occurred at the United States embassy in Beirut in Lebanon, a country to which Washington recommended not traveling and from which it authorized the departure of some non-emergency diplomatic personnel from the country due to the “unpredictable security situation” in the country.

There were also strong demonstrations at the American diplomatic legation in Iraq, at that of Israel in Jordan, at that of France in Iran and at that of the United Kingdom in the same country.

Israel has denied being the author of the bombing of the Al Ahli hospital in Gaza that has left at least 500 dead.

An Israeli Army spokesperson said that “multiple intelligence sources indicate that Islamic Jihad is responsible for the failed launch of the rocket that hit the hospital.”