Newspaper headlines: 'Hospital horror' and 'bring my baby home'

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By BBC News
Staff
Reuters

President Joe Biden was welcomed by Israeli Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu

Time for a look at the papers - which lead on the explosion at a hospital in Gaza.

The Daily Express says hundreds of Palestinians are feared to have been killed after a "massive explosion tore through" a hospital in the Gaza Strip. The Guardian says the building was packed with people injured by previous air strikes, and others seeking shelter from Israel's bombardment. According to the Times, the strike was caught on camera and sent blast waves through the hospital forecourt. It's among several papers to note that it's the deadliest such incident in the history of conflict between Israel and its neighbours. The front page of the Daily Mirror says the Middle East crisis is spiralling, with the headline "This Must End". "Who is to blame?" asks the Daily Mail as it highlights both Israel - and what the paper calls 'Gaza militants' - offering competing explanations for the blast.

The Daily Telegraph says President Biden is due to arrive at the war's 'most dangerous point' - and reports that Rishi Sunak will also visit Israel on Thursday. The paper says the bombing will raise fears that Iran will enter the conflict, and cites reports saying the US is considering military strikes on Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, which is backed by Iran. The main editorial in the Times says Mr Biden is returning the US to a "mire" in the Middle East - where successive US governments have become bogged down in fruitless attempts to promote peace. But the paper says the president may still be able to play the role of peacemaker - and avoid a wider war.

The Sun leads on pictures of a ransacked bedroom in a house in southern Israel, where it says a British woman and her daughter were killed by Hamas. The paper's reporter, touring the scene, describes a "horror house" littered with bullet casings, trashed furniture and the remains of the family dog still in the living room. A grieving relative tells the Sun the images will "tell the world what the terrorists did".

The Financial Times reports that Sir Keir Starmer is facing a growing mutiny from Labour councillors who are demanding the party change its stance on the conflict between Israel and Hamas. The FT says there's pressure from council leaders, influential Muslim party members and those on the left-wing after Sir Keir gave - according to the paper - his unqualified support for Israel to defend itself in the wake of the massacres by Hamas. It reports on a meeting, on Monday night, at which councillors are said to have warned senior figures in Labour they have only a "day or two" to alter course before the situation becomes unmanageable.

And the Daily Telegraph reports on a study suggesting that fast walkers live longer than "dawdlers". Researchers at the University of Leicester - analysing health data from 400,000 British people - found that those who consider themselves brisk walkers are 25% less likely to die of cancer than their slower counterparts. The authors say the effect was most pronounced in older men - and walkers should pick up the pace where possible.