Citing Palestinian authorities in the besieged territory, media reports say at least 500 people have been killed in an Israeli air raid on al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza.

Al Jazeera says a spokesman for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas denounced the air raid as an act of “genocide” and a “humanitarian catastrophe”.

Several world leaders have condemned the attack.

In a statement on Tuesday, the Jordanian foreign ministry strongly condemned Israel’s attack and emphasized the need for international protection for Palestinian civilians and an end to the fighting.

Jordanian King Abdullah II said Israel’s bombing of Gaza hospital was a “massacre” and a “war crime” that one cannot be silent about.

The Egyptian government has issued a statement denouncing the attack “in the strongest terms”, calling on the international community to step in and prevent further violations.

Qatar’s foreign ministry said the attack marked a dangerous escalation.

“The expansion of Israeli attacks over the Gaza Strip to include hospitals, schools, and other population centers is a dangerous escalation,” the statement reads, according to Al Jazeera.

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian has said that no one across world with a woken conscience can tolerate attack on Gaza hospital.

IRNA says he described the attack as an “intolerable crime,” noting that the child-killing regime targeted the hospital in the center of Gaza, resulting in the death of at least 500 patients, medical personnel, and other individuals.

“WHO strongly condemns the attack on Al Ahli Arab Hospital”, the UN health agency’s director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on the social media platform X, adding that early reports indicate “hundreds of deaths and injuries.”