The Israeli regime is pushing ahead with its genocidal war against Gaza Strip sparing no civilian center in its unabated strikes. Since day one, hospitals have been a constant target of such attacks in defiance of the international laws that exempts healthcare centers from military aggression.
“South Africa joins the global condemnation of the bombing, which is a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law,” the Foreign Ministry said in a statement late Wednesday.
The plea comes amid the systematic targeting of medical infrastructure by Israeli forces, with the recent destruction of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza cited as the latest example.
This came in a press conference by the spokesman for the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Stephane Dujarric, in which he affirmed that some hospitals in northern Gaza have been without new fuel supplies for more than 10 days.
The European Hospital, in the southern city of Khan Yunis, was intended for only 240 people but is currently treating around 1,000 patients, while many displaced people are also sheltering in its corridors, they said.
The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has decried as “war crime” the latest Israeli deliberate and continuous attack on hospitals in Gaza urging the international community to take immediate action to end the crime.
Palestinians are digging a mass grave in the biggest hospital in Gaza to bury the bodies of patients who died inside the health facility surrounded by Israeli forces.
In a statement, the OIC said: The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation condemns the heinous crime committed by the Israeli Occupation by targeting ambulances at the entrance to the Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City, which led to the death of dozens of innocent civilians Most of whom were wounded, sick, medical staff, women and children.
For 25 days, the Israeli army has been waging a devastating war on the Gaza Strip, killing and wounding tens of thousands of Palestinians, most of them civilians, and many of them women and children. The humanitarian situation is catastrophic.
Israeli regime is reportedly maintaining a ban on import of essential medical equipment to reach the hospitals in the besieged Gaza Strip, Palestinian Health Ministry announced.