Israel war: Thousands of protesters descend on US Embassy in Beirut after Gaza hospital bombing

Thousands of anti-United States demonstrators descended on the U.S. embassy in Beirut following a bomb or missile strike on a Christian Gaza hospital. 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...