The Gaza Hospital Massacre: Arab and international condemnations of the Israeli war crime

Capitals (ST): The Lebanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates condemned the heinous war crime committed by the Israeli occupation by bombing the Al-Mamadani Hospital in Gaza, which claimed the lives of hundreds of people and wounded hundreds others.

The Lebanese Foreign Ministry said in a statement: “Once again, Israel ignores international law and commits a war crime against humanity against a besieged people who are being massacred and deliberately exterminated.”

The Ministry called on the international community to intervene immediately to stop the Israeli massacres and shooting, in order to bring humanitarian and medical aid into the Gaza Strip, and to treat the wounded and injured.

The Jordanian Ministry of Foreign and Expatriate Affairs condemned in the strongest terms the Israeli aggression that targeted Al-Mamadani Hospital in Gaza Strip, holding Israel, the occupying power, responsible for this dangerous development.

The Ministry’s official spokesman, Ambassador Dr. Sufyan Al-Qudah, affirmed Jordan’s strong rejection and condemnation of this act, which is inconsistent with all human and moral values, and with the rules of international humanitarian law, especially the Fourth Geneva Convention relating to the rules of war.

He stressed the need to provide international protection for the Palestinian people, and to join efforts to immediately stop the raging war in Gaza.

In Muscat, the Omani Foreign Ministry strongly condemned the Israeli occupation’s targeting of the Al-Mamadani Hospital in Gaza.

The Omani Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed in a statement the Sultanate of Oman’s denunciation and condemnation of the targeting of a hospital in the Palestinian city of Gaza by the Israeli occupation forces and the fall of hundreds of civilians, martyred and wounded, which represents a war crime of genocide and a violation of international humanitarian law, ethics and international conventions.

In its statement, the Foreign Ministry expressed its condolences and sympathy to the families of the victims.

The United Arab Emirates and the Russian Federation also called for an emergency meeting in the UN Security Council today after the Israeli massacre against the hospital in Gaza.

In Riyadh, the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned in the strongest terms the heinous crime committed by the Israeli occupation forces by bombing the hospital in the Gaza Strip, affirming the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s categorical rejection of this brutal attack, which is a flagrant violation of all international laws and norms, including international humanitarian law. It also expresses its denunciation of the failure to stop the Israeli occupation’s attacks against civilians despite many international appeals.

The Saudi Foreign Ministry stressed that this dangerous development requires the international community to abandon double standards and selectivity in applying international humanitarian law when it comes to Israeli criminal practices, and requires a serious and firm stance to provide protection for defenseless civilians.

The statement stressed the need to respond to the calls made by countries and organizations to deliver food and medicine to civilians trapped in Gaza, and to hold the Israeli occupation forces fully responsible for their continued repeated violation of all international norms and laws.

In turn, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau described the raid launched by the Israeli entity on a hospital in Gaza, which caused a massacre that killed hundreds, as “horrific and completely unacceptable.”

Trudeau told reporters: “It is unacceptable to bomb a hospital.”

In Geneva, the World Health Organization strongly condemned the attack on a hospital in Gaza. The Organization said: It strongly condemns this attack on the  Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, which is unprecedented.

K.Q.