Gaza - Saba:
Palestinian factions and forces condemned on Tuesday evening the Israeli enemy's targeting of the European Hospital and its surroundings, in a new crime targeting hospitals in the Gaza Strip.
At least 28 Palestinians were killed, a large number were injured, and several citizens were missing under the rubble, after the enemy targeted the vicinity of the Gaza European Hospital in Khan Yunis with explosive belts. A house was also bombed in the southern Gaza Strip.
The Palestinian Freedom Movement, in a statement, considered that the pretexts advanced by the Israeli army and its security institutions, claiming that resistance leaders and figures were hiding under the building of the Gaza European Hospital and other hospitals, are intended to target the medical sector, create a state of health insecurity, and eliminate or even prevent the continued existence of medical service institutions in the Gaza Strip, given the already severe shortage of services.
It noted that the Israeli enemy deliberately targets civilian gatherings, from hospitals, shelters and displacement centers to food distribution points, as part of a systematic war of extermination aimed at inflicting the greatest number of casualties among defenseless civilians and breaking the will of our people through killing, starvation, and siege.
For its part, the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) condemned in the strongest terms the bloody massacres committed by Israeli enemy forces against health facilities in the southern Gaza Strip, the most recent of which was the targeting of the Gaza European Hospital and its surroundings in Khan Yunis Governorate, just hours after a department at Nasser Hospital in the same city was bombed.
The DFLP noted that these successive crimes against health facilities and medical personnel clearly reveal the enemy's deliberate implementation of a policy of genocide and ethnic cleansing against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip through the systematic targeting of the health sector and its means of survival, which constitutes a full-fledged war crime under international humanitarian law and the Geneva Conventions.
The Front emphasized that international silence and the open political and military support of the United States and some Western countries for the enemy have provided a canopy of impunity and allowed the enemy to continue committing further massacres and violations without any deterrent.
The Democratic Front called for urgent and effective international action that goes beyond verbal condemnation and leads to the prosecution of the enemy's leaders as war criminals before the International Criminal Court, the imposition of deterrent sanctions on the enemy, and an end to its ongoing aggression against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip.
The Front called for the provision of urgent medical and humanitarian support to the exhausted health sector in Gaza, strengthening its steadfastness in the face of systematic Zionist targeting, and ensuring full protection for medical personnel and health facilities, which have become direct targets of the aggression.
The Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, confirmed in an earlier statement that the brutal, intensive raids launched by the fascist enemy army on the premises of the Gaza European Hospital and its surroundings constitute a new crime targeting the remaining hospitals in the Gaza Strip, with the aim of putting them out of service.
This crime comes after a similar bombing targeted the surgical building at Nasser Hospital, which resulted in the death of journalist Hassan Taslih, several others wounded, and massive destruction throughout the area.
The death toll in the Gaza Strip continues to accelerate amid the intense targeting by the Israeli enemy army of the besieged Strip, which has been under siege for 583 days, amid shameful Arab and international silence.
The death toll from the Zionist military aggression on the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, has risen to 52,908 martyrs, in addition to 119,721 wounded, some with serious and very serious injuries, the majority of whom are children and women.
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