Hezbollah, the Lebanon-based group that denounces Israel’s attack on Gaza’s hospital and calls for a “day of unprecedented anger”, called on Wednesday as protests broke out outside the US Embassy in Beirut only hours after the incident.

Hezbollah – a group backed by Iran that fought Israel in 2006. They called for a day of protests in Beirut late on Tuesday, after Palestinian officials claimed hundreds of people had been killed in the attack on the hospital.

Israel’s military denied the bombing. According to military intelligence, the hospital had been hit by an unsuccessful rocket launch from the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group in the enclave.

Islamic Jihad denies that its rockets are involved in the explosion at the hospital.

Protests erupt after hospital explosion

In response to this incident, hundreds of Lebanese demonstrators, some waving Palestinian banners, gathered outside the US Embassy late Tuesday night. Other protesters gathered in front of the French Embassy in Beirut.

Protesters were hurled tear gas near the US Embassy in Lebanon.

Hezbollah, in a statement, denounced what it said was an attack by Israel. It said: “The attacks reveal the true criminal faces of this entity, and its sponsor, the United States. They bear direct and complete accountability for this massacre.”