Euro-Med: Israel plans to strike Gaza hospitals
The Euro-Mediterranean Observatory for Human Rights warns that Israel is escalating its threatening and inciting campaigns against hospitals and medical centers in the Gaza Strip, aiming to target and completely destroy the remaining healthcare facilities. This deliberately hinders the delivery of medical treatment and endangers the lives of civilians. The organization explained that Israel repeats unsubstantiated accusations linking medical facilities to military activities and uses these claims as a pretext for bombing them, despite the legal protections provided to hospitals under the laws of war. It reaffirmed that targeting such facilities constitutes a war crime and crimes against humanity, especially as more than half of the hospitals have been destroyed and over 1,700 healthcare personnel killed over the past three years. The observatory called on the international community to take urgent action to protect medical facilities, prevent their targeting, halt military threats, open crossings to allow the entry of supplies and medical aid, and investigate all crimes committed against healthcare facilities. These issues persist amidst ongoing destruction since the start of the Israeli assault on Gaza in October 2023, which has resulted in hundreds of thousands of victims and extensive damage to infrastructure.
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