Tehran – Iran is now found to be another battle: a war of narratives, as it faces Israel’s aggressive waves against civilian infrastructure, including hospitals.
In what Iranian officials call “a hopeless psychological operation,” they launched a media campaign that falsely accused Israel of targeting Israeli hospitals in southern Iran. This is because Israel itself continues to directly attack hospitals across the ancient country, causing potential injuries, trauma and destruction.
Two in Tehran and one in Karmanshah, which targeted three hospitals in Iran, are clear violations of international humanitarian law. And it clearly reveals Israel’s false claims and exposes attempts to manipulate international opinions, but it underscores the disturbing silence of so-called defenders of Western human rights.
On June 14, an Israeli drone collided with the boundary of Hakim Children’s Hospital in southern Tehran. The attack put dozens of innocent children at risk, but none of the victims.
On June 17, Farabi Hospital in Kermanshah was bombed, causing damage to essential medical equipment and crushing windows, and injuring both staff and patients.
On June 19, another hospital in Tehran was hit around midnight. The same air strike also destroyed six ambulances and health centres.
These are not isolated cases. As spokesman for Iran’s Ministry of Health spokesman Hossein Kermanpour said, these repeated attacks illustrate a pattern of “inhuman and hostile behavior” by the Israeli regime.
Iran’s Danish ambassador, Seyed Mohammad Reza Sajadi, called the strike at the Children’s Hospital “crimes against humanity,” condemned Israeli atrocities and called for “hypocrisy” in the West that protects human rights but remains silent in the face of clear war crimes.
Hospitals not targeted
Over the past two days, Israeli media have widely claimed that Iranian missiles have directly attacked Soroka Medical Center in Bercheva. This claim was quickly taken up by Western outlets with little scrutiny or evidence. However, Iranian sources, including official statements, have firmly denied the allegations.
According to Tehran, the target is not a hospital, but a digital command facility within two major Israeli military facilities nearby, IDF’s main Cyber Intelligence Base and GAV Yam Technology Park. These are not private facilities. They are the core of Israel’s military infrastructure.
Iran reports that Soroka Hospital may have felt a shockwave from the nearby explosion, but the missiles have actually not been attacked by the hospital. The damage was minimal with collateral. Iranian officials have described the Israeli story as intentionally misleading, and aim to distract the world’s attention from actual stories.
How Israel uses propaganda to hide war crimes
By falsely denounced Iran’s hospital strikes, Israel is simply trying to create a non-existent moral equivalence. Iran’s strikes are clearly directed towards military facilities, not civilian targets. Unable to protect the intelligence reporting system from Iran’s precision strike, the Zionist Israeli regime is now trying to win in the media what it has lost on the battlefield.
As the world is looking at the latest chapters of the Iran-Israel conflict, it must ask an important question: Who is actually violating the law of war?
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