Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement has strongly condemned the “terrorist” Israeli attack on Nasser Hospital in Gaza, saying the occupying regime committed another “war crime” amid the international community’s silence.
An Israeli airstrike hit a surgery building at Nasser Hospital in the city of Khan Younis in southern Gaza overnight Wednesday, killing at least six Palestinian people, including medical staff and patients.
In a statement on Friday, Hezbollah described the strike as another war crime added to Israel’s dark record of atrocities and attacks against hospitals and medical facilities.
“This crime, which confirms the inherent criminal nature of this enemy that continues to wage a brutal genocidal war against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, constitutes a flagrant violation of international and humanitarian laws that mandate the protection of medical facilities and their personnel,” the statement said.
It stressed that targeting such facilities, medical staff, patients, and the wounded “cannot be justified by any pretext or claim”.
Hezbollah warned that the continued “shameful” international and Arab silence on Israeli crimes will only embolden the Israeli regime to commit further crimes.
The movement stressed its solidarity with the Palestinian people and resistance against the occupation.
It urged the international community as well as international and human rights organizations to shoulder their responsibilities and take effective measures to halt these crimes, and to hold Israel and its leaders accountable for the violations and massacres they are committing.
According to the Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza, Israel’s genocidal war has resulted in the deaths of more than 74,653 Palestinians and left more than 176,007 injured since October 2023.
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