Iran Condemns War Crime After Israel Sets Fire to Hospital in Gaza
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The Iranian Foreign Ministry strongly condemned the Zionist regime’s brutal raid on Kamal Adwan hospital in northern Gaza and the Israeli forces’ move to set fire to key departments of the hospital as a war crime and violation of the international law.
In a statement released on Saturday, Esmaeil Baqaei said the Israeli raid on Kamal Adwan hospital amounts to a war crime, crime against humanity, and a blatant violation of the international law and norms.
He said the Israeli crimes have been committed with the purpose of paralyzing health and medical services in Gaza and depriving the injured and sick people of access to minimum medical facilities.
Kamal Adwan hospital was one of the last operating medical centers in northern Gaza, Baqaei noted.
Denouncing the Israeli military raid on the hospital, the forced evacuation of patients and medical staff, and setting fire to the hospital as a heinous war crime and part of the genocidal crimes in Palestine, the Iranian spokesman deplored the unjustifiable silence of the international institutions on such atrocities.
The Israeli regime’s military forces burned the Kamal Adwan hospital and caused significant destruction to the vast majority of its wards after a raid on Friday.
Gaza’s Health Ministry reported that Israel’s military has taken dozens of Kamal Adwan Hospital staff, including director Hussam Abu Safia, for interrogation, while the fate of many patients is unknown after troops forcibly cleared the medical facility.
The UN’s World Health Organization (WHO) said Israel’s “systematic dismantling” of Gaza’s health system is a “death sentence for tens of thousands of Palestinians”.
The UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) called for the “immediate flow” of humanitarian aid as babies freeze to death in Gaza.
Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 45,436 Palestinians and wounded 108,038 since October 7, 2023.