TEHRAN – Another Tehran hospital was hit by a rocket around 12:45am local time on June 19, according to Hossein Kermanpour, a spokesman for Iran’s Ministry of Health.
This marks the third hospital in Iran to be targeted amid recent escalations, Kermanpour said in a social media post. He added that six ambulances and comprehensive health services facilities were also attacked during the ongoing conflict.
In the past seven days alone, these hospitals have been attacked by obvious violations of international customs, Carmanpool said they have accused the Israeli regime of repeatedly describing them as “hostile and inhuman attacks.”
He concluded the statement by calling on the international community for its silence, accusing global institutions of failing to support their obligations under humanitarian law, in the face of what he labelled “an invasion of a Zionist regime during the occupation.”
Last Monday, the Zionist regime launched a missile attack at Farabi Hospital in Kermansha, the border city of the country’s west. Some hospitals suffered severe damage. Many of the hospital equipment was damaged and broken windows caused injuries to patients admitted in different wards.
Under the same law on June 14, a drone launched by Israel hit the boundary of Hakim Children’s Hospital in southern Tehran. Iranian health authorities and humanitarian organisations have condemned the strike as a serious violation of international law and medical neutrality, emphasizing that targeting healthcare facilities constitutes a war crime.
The Ministry of Health emphasizes that the human costs of these strikes are clearly inconsistent with the claims of “precision targeting” and highlights the indiscriminate nature of Israeli invasion.
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