"We strongly condemn this incident that confirms a worrying pattern of attacks to essential medical services and express our strongest outrage as this will leave a very fragile population without healthcare for weeks," Ayora said.
For almost a week, Obama has resisted getting involved the swirling debates over racial discrimination, and was coming under growing criticism for his failure to respond to strong public outrage.
But the Kurdish ambush still drew strong public outrage here, and its brazenness could effectively force the government to make good on its warning to send forces into northern Iraq.
"When you've got a crisis that's growing like this -- every time you turn the page there's a new chapter of hocus-pocus accounting -- the stronger the outrage has to be," Mr. Dal Col said.
Reactions to the claim range from strong interest, to outrage, to curiosity about the identity of the alleged spy.
"I share strong feelings of outrage and shock with my fellow citizens and university students – as well as concerned people everywhere," said Mark Kleinschmidt, the mayor.
The UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, expressed "strong protest and outrage" and demanded an investigation into why there was an attack on the compound of the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), a well-known location in Gaza marked with blue UN flags.
"We'll urgently look at a [public inquiry] because I certainly appreciate how serious this is, how this provokes very strong emotions, dismay, outrage amongst the victims' relatives and families, so we do want to make sure that we do everything to get to the bottom of exactly what did and didn't happen," the deputy prime minister said.
While strong on moral outrage, ALM's statement provides no new details on how the apparent breach occurred.
"Whenever Trump comes out and attacks Merkel, you see German citizens rallying around her… There's a strong feeling of outrage – 'How dare you!'".
