Gaza War: Israel justifies attack on hospital buildings in Gaza

Israel’s government has appealed to a German statement on the attack of the Israeli forces to a hospital building in the north of the competitive Gaza Strip. It was a “precise attack” on a single building that was used by Islamist Hamas as a command and control center, the Israeli Foreign Ministry wrote on the platform X. It reacted to an English-language X contribution from the house of the executive Federal Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock (Greens).

The opinion of the Federal Foreign Office says: “The cruel Hamas terror should be fought. But humanitarian international law applies with a special protection obligation for civil places. How should a hospital be evacuated in less than 20 minutes?” Baerbock himself also wrote this in German on her own X account.

Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs counters Baerbock

“We would expect a clear and sharp conviction of the use of hospitals by Hamas and no rhetoric that encourages Hamas to continue the abuse of civil infrastructure,” replied Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Unfortunately, “important facts” were missing in the German explanation. The Israeli army spent a warning early before the attack. There were also no civilian victims as a result of the attack.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), a child died because they could not be cared for during the evacuation of the patients. This wrote who of the WHO General Director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on X, citing the director of the clinic. Accordingly, the hospital was badly damaged in the attack.