TEL AVIV: At least 500 people have been killed in an Israeli airstrike on the Al-Ahli hospital in Gaza. According to reports most of the dead are women and children. Thousands of people who lost their homes and were injured in the war were in the hospital.

Hamas alleged that the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) was behind the attack. The IDF, however, said that the explosion was brought on by the Palestinian terrorist organization Islamic Jihad accidentally launching a missile

The attack came before US President Joe Biden was scheduled to visit Tel Aviv to show solidarity with Israel. Joe Biden will meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today. Following the attack the Jordanian Foreign Minister has announced the cancellation of a regional summit scheduled for today in Amman, Jordan. Biden was supposed to meet with Jordanian King Abdullah II, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi.

Biden expressed outrage at the attack on the hospital and tasked the country's Special Investigations Unit with investigating the incident. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu alleged that it was the people of Gaza who attacked the hospital and killed hundreds of their people.

"The whole world should know about this. The hospital was attacked by brutal terrorists in Gaza. And not the Israel Defense Forces. Those who brutally killed our children are also killing their children' - Netanyahu wrote on X. It is clear from the analysis conducted by the IDF that the explosion at Al-Ahli Hospital was caused by a missile that went close during the missile attack by the terrorists in Gaza.