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Massacre in Gaza Strip: Even hospitals are targets! (pics+video)

Massacre in Gaza Strip: Even hospitals are targets! (pics+video)

Four people were killed and 16 more were injured from a bomb thrown by an Israeli tank against a hospital in the center of Gaza Strip, according to Palestinian authorities.

According to the spokesman of the Ministry of Health of the Palestinian enclave, Ashraf al-Qudra, the cannonball hit the third floor of the hospital of al-Aqsa Martyrs in Deir al-Balah.

This floor housed a hospital intensive care unit and operating rooms.

Other bombs fell around the hospital, as added by al-Qudra, while Palestinian officials appealed to the Red Cross to help in the removal of patients from the hospital.

The Israeli army hasn't yet made any comments.

Meanwhile the occupied West Shore was paralyzed, due to the general strike in response the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip which claimed the lives of at least 140 people.

The call for the strike was addressed by unions and many Islamist movements, before receiving the support of the Organization for the Liberation of Palestine from the President Mahmoud Abbas, who asked the demonstrations to be held across the Palestinian territory after 21:00 (local time and GMT) and after the fasting of Ramadan.

The Human Rights Council of the UN on Wednesday will hold an emergency meeting on Israel's attack against the Gaza Strip at the request of Egypt, Palestine and Islamic states, as said in a statement the agency.

Egypt's request, submitted on July 18 and on behalf of the group of Arab countries, is supported by at least 16 countries of a total of 47, including China, Russia and Saudi Arabia, as required by statute to convene an extraordinary meeting.

The request has also been signed by the mission of Palestine to the United Nations, where it has an observer status.