Dozens of people are storming toward the Israeli embassy in Jordan in the wake of the hospital blast in Gaza.
Videos on Twitter show an angry crowd surrounding the building and attempting to force their way inside.
תיעוד בירדן: עשרות נוהרים לשגרירות הישראלית בירדן. הקריאות ברשת ״לשרוף״. הצוות הישראלי מלפני מספר ימים בארץ. pic.twitter.com/ZNlEUCZQgr
— Fadi Amun | فادي أمون | פאדי אמון (@FadiAmun) October 17, 2023
It is not immediately clear if there were any Israeli staffers in the building.
Lebanese protesters break into UN building in Beirut
Large rallies are taking place in the Lebanese capital Beirut, particularly in Dahiye, a large Shiite suburb in the south of the city, following the blast at the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza.
Several protesters are filmed as they break into a UN office in the city and set it on fire.
This came after the Hezbollah terror group called for a “day of rage” on Wednesday over the hospital blast.
Media outlets in the Arab world have almost unanimously attributed the disaster, in which hundreds are reported to have died, to an Israeli airstrike. Israel has said the blast was caused by a misfired Islamic Jihad rocket.
#BREAKING| Angry protesters broke into the #UN building in #Beirut in protest against the #BaptistHospital massacre in #Gaza. pic.twitter.com/NFqEhSwYsw
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) October 17, 2023
Following Hezbollah’s call, hundreds of demonstrators also scuffled with Lebanese security forces outside the US embassy in the suburb of Awkar, where protesters hurled stones and set a building on fire, according to AFP correspondents.
Thousands of protesters descend on US Embassy in Beirut
Thousands of anti-United States demonstrators descended on the U.S. embassy in Beirut.
The Tuesday explosion at the Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City was blamed on a misfired rocket from the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group by Israel and on an Israeli air force air strike by Hamas and Palestinian authorities. Most of the Muslim world immediately accepted the latter explanation, with Hezbollah declaring a “day of unprecedented anger” against Israel soon after. The group also laid significant blame for the attack on the U.S. Soon after the statement, thousands of protesters descended on the U.S. Embassy in Beirut.
Video posted on social media appeared to show a massive throng of vehicles clogging up the road headed to the U.S. Embassy.
⚡️Lebanon, on the way to the American embassy pic.twitter.com/2qZrhCoCCg
— Middle East Observer (@ME_Observer_) October 17, 2023
It looked like several thousand protesters, brandishing Palestinian, Lebanese, and Hamas flags, surrounded the embassy and clashed with police. Video appeared to show the protesters raising a Palestinian flag over the embassy complex.
⚡️Now in #Lebanon, the flags of Palestine and the #Hamas movement are raised on the fence of the American embassy in Beirut. pic.twitter.com/oT5iZtCA6f
— Middle East Observer (@ME_Observer_) October 17, 2023
Another video showed what looked like protesters setting fire to part of the embassy complex.
Protestors in Beirut burned part of the US Embassy compound.pic.twitter.com/UeytMlalQc
— Lowkey (@Lowkey0nline) October 17, 2023
However, Lebanese police and security forces intervened with water canons and tear gas, preventing protesters from storming the heavily fortified embassy. Reporters from Al Jazeera covered some of the chaos as protesters were prevented from breaching the embassy. It was reported that the protesters laid significant blame on the U.S. for the hospital explosion, saying that its “unconditional support” was the cause.
After being unable to break into the American Embassy, many turned their fury to the French Embassy, according to social media posts.
Biden just authorized $100 million for the Palestinians, the ones who started this mess! Humanitarian aid! Humanitarian aid is what Hamas called their raid and massacre into
Israel last week. Just ask the protestors.
That’s $100 million we don’t have. We have to “borrow” it. Which means that we have to print up some more “funny money,” which keeps inflation on the rise. Chicken feed compared to the new $100 billion Biden authorized for Israel and Ukraine. The man just can’t stop spending!
Biden is also the one who authorized the nuclear treaty with Iran! The same treaty that gives Iran the ability to develop its own nuclear weapons.
When Biden keeps sending money and weapons to the people who want to attack us, how is it that he is so surprised when they do turn around and attack us! And Biden is still sending them money!
The dems have never met a problem that they thought they couldn’t solve by smothering it with money. And when the problems start shooting back at them with real bombs and bullets, the choose to hide behind the GOP!