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Thousands of students rallied at Egyptian universities Wednesday to condemn Israel's airstrikes on Gaza. The pro-Palestinian demonstrations took place in Cairo, Alexandria and other cities.

Videos posted on social media showed scores of mostly students protesting in the city of Fayoum, roughly 60 miles (100 km) from Cairo, chanting: “With our souls, with our blood, we sacrifice for you, Al-Aqsa.” The Al-Aqsa mosque sits on a hilltop in Jerusalem's contested old city. The mosque is the third-holiest site in Islam and stands in a spot known to Jews as the Temple Mount, which is the holiest site in Judaism.

A Tuesday night explosion at a Gaza City hospital also triggered protests in Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria. (AP)

A Hezbollah spokesperson says the Lebanese Red Cross has collected the remains of four of the group's militants.

An AP photojournalist saw three body bags and a bag of remains transferred from the Lebanese Red Cross to Hezbollah's Islamic Health Unit at Hiram Hospital, which is near southern Lebanon's city of Tyre.

The spokesperson said the bodies belonged to militants who were pronounced dead Tuesday. He did not say how they died.

The Israeli military said Tuesday that its forces killed four militants who were allegedly carrying an explosive device and were suspected of attempting a cross-border operation. (AP)

The Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry revised the death toll from an explosion at a Gaza City hospital down from 500 to 471 on Wednesday but did not elaborate on how authorities reached that figure.

Staff members at al-Ahli Hospital said they could not gauge the toll because the blast had dismembered so many bodies. Hospital director Suhaila Tarazi and Episcopal Church officials that run al-Ahli could only estimate that the toll was “in the hundreds” and refrained from giving an exact number.

Mohammed Abu Selmia, general director of Shifa Hospital where all the wounded and dead were transferred following the explosion, told AP early Wednesday that he believed the death toll was closer to 250, with hundreds more wounded. (AP)

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says U.K. intelligence services are “rapidly analysing the evidence to independently establish the facts” behind the devastating explosion at a Gaza hospital.

Sunak urged lawmakers in the House of Commons not to “rush to judgment” about the blast at the al-Ahli hospital, which Hamas blames on Israel and Israel blames on Palestinian militants.

Calling it an “awful situation,” Sunak said: “Every member will know that the words we say here have an impact beyond this House.” Earlier, British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly urged people to “wait for the facts” on the cause of the explosion.

Cleverly planned to head to the region Wednesday as part of efforts to ease the humanitarian crisis. He's expected to visit Egypt, Qatar and Turkey. (AP)