Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has condemned a devastating Israeli attack on Gaza City’s al-Ahli Hospital, the last functioning medical facility in the northern Gaza Strip, calling it “yet another war crime” committed by the rogue Israeli regime.
In a statement on Sunday, hours after the attack took place, Hamas said the bombing destroyed part of the hospital, displaced patients, and wounded individuals.
Calling the attack a continuation of the “fascist” occupying regime’s “long series of atrocities” in Gaza, Hamas said the Israeli military acts with impunity under “blatant US cover” and amid the inaction of international accountability bodies.
The statement questioned the silence of global institutions, particularly the UN Security Council, in the face of these “unprecedented crimes in modern history.”
Hamas further held the United States “fully responsible” for the Israeli act of aggression, arguing that the attack would not have taken place without Washington’s green light.
It called on the international community, especially Arab and Islamic countries, to act immediately to halt what it described as genocide in Gaza.
The group also urged people across the Arab and Islamic world, as well as global supporters, to intensify solidarity efforts and pressure Israel to stop its military campaign in the besieged territory.
Israeli forces attacked al-Ahli Hospital, also known as the Baptist or Ahli Arab hospital, early on Sunday, destroying the hospital’s emergency unit, main entrance, and a critical facility housing medical oxygen for intensive care patients.
According to reports, critically ill patients were left stranded on the streets as the largest remaining functioning hospital in northern Gaza was put out of service.
Israel ‘escalating criminality’ with al-Ahli strikes: Islamic Jihad
The Palestinian Islamic Jihad said in a statement that the Israeli military first caused panic among patients and civilians sheltering at al-Ahli Hospital by sending them a warning before bombing them in the dark of night.
“This heinous aggression is part of a systematic series of attacks targeting hospitals, schools, shelters and tents for the displaced in Gaza, within the context of a systematic war of extermination that violates all humanitarian and moral standards,” the resistance movement said.
It also held the US responsible for the assault, saying, “The international silence on Gaza is forcing it to become a graveyard for law and humanity.”
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