Gaza City: The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor (Euro-Med Monitor) stated that the crime of intentional destruction unleashed by the Israeli occupation forces against Al Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza City lays bare Israel's determination to entirely batter the means of life in the enclave within an unequivocal pathway to revoke all survival elements.
According to Qatar News Agency, the rights monitor highlighted that this escalation is a dangerous phase in a systematic strategy that aims to eliminate the places of last resort to which Palestinian civilians had fled, primarily sick and injured people to whom protection should have been provided under all circumstances, along with medical personnel who operate in catastrophic situations to salvage human lives.
The statement stressed that targeting a medical facility that receives critical medical cases is a direct encroachment upon the right to life and broadly constitutes a chapter of the unabated genocide against the Gazans.
People and medical personnel had to evacuate dozens of patients and injured from this hospital to the adjacent streets, some of whom were in critical condition and were forced to lay on the pavements under the threat of death and without medical care, a scene that underscores the scale of the profound humanitarian catastrophe, the statement continued.
In addition, the rights monitor urged the international community to ensure Israel complies with the international rules-based order and the decisions of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), in addition to holding it accountable for its crimes against the Palestinians.
It called for enforcing the arrest warrants issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) against the Prime Minister of the occupying government and its Minister of Defense and hand them over to international justice.
The Israeli occupation forces had bombarded Al Ahli Baptist Hospital on purpose targeting the surgery building, which houses the surgical department, and the medical oxygen generation unit designated for intensive care patients, rendering the hospital completely inoperative.