Omar Al-Bukhaiti, spokesman for the Government, has condemned in the strongest terms the brutal crime committed by the Israeli enemy by targeting the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis city, southern Gaza Strip, which resulted in the martyrdom of six Palestinians, including a doctor and a child, and the injury of dozens.
He described what happened as a "criminal attack on patients, medical teams, and health facilities."
Al-Bukhaiti renewed the affirmation of Yemen's firm and principled position supporting the Palestinian people and their legitimate right to confront the occupation and secure their legitimate rights.
He stressed that the crimes of the Israeli enemy will not expire with time, and that the blood of the martyrs will remain a witness to the scale of criminality and international complicity.
He held the international community, the United Nations, and human rights and humanitarian institutions legally and morally responsible for the continuation of these crimes, as a result of their inability to take practical positions and measures to stop the aggression and hold its perpetrators accountable.
Call to the Free People of the World
He called on the free people of the world and the Arab and Islamic peoples to work to support the Palestinian cause and show solidarity with the Palestinian people, to take practical positions to stop the Zionist crimes, and to work to pursue and hold the leaders of the enemy accountable before international courts as war criminals.
He explained that targeting hospitals, medical facilities, patients, and health personnel represents a complete war crime and a flagrant violation of all international and humanitarian laws and charters that guarantee the protection of medical facilities, their workers, and patients.
It reveals once again the criminal nature of the Israeli enemy and its disregard for all human values and norms.
Al-Bukhaiti affirmed that the Israeli enemy's continuation of committing massacres and targeting civilian and medical facilities confirms its insistence on continuing the war of extermination and destruction against the Palestinian people, exploiting the state of international silence and complicity and the absence of any deterrent measures to hold its leaders and criminals accountable.
He noted that the crime is not an isolated incident from a long record of systematic targeting of hospitals and medical teams in the Gaza Strip but comes within the context of a war targeting the Palestinian human being and the elements of life in the Strip, seeking to deprive patients and the wounded of the most basic human rights to treatment and healthcare.
The Israeli attack on the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, which killed six Palestinians including a doctor and a child and wounded dozens, is part of a series of Israeli violations against health facilities in the Gaza Strip.
The targeting of hospitals, medical staff, and patients constitutes a grave violation of international humanitarian law, which grants special protection to medical facilities and personnel during armed conflicts.
