[News] Israeli aggression against Iran includes attacks on hospitals, ambulances

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Israeli aggression against Iran includes attacks on hospitals, ambulances
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June 23, 2025
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*By Humaira Ahad*

*The unbridled Israeli aggression against Iran has extended to the
healthcare system as well, with airstrikes targeting at least three
hospitals and six ambulances in one week.*

These attacks have killed many medical professionals, including a female
gynaecologist and a paediatrician with her 3-year-old child, while injuring
many other healthcare workers.

The indiscriminate assault on Iran’s medical community is part of a broader
pattern of violence that echoes the systematic destruction of hospitals and
clinics in Gaza amid the genocide that completed 600 days recently.

It lays bare, yet again, the Israeli regime’s flagrant disregard for
international humanitarian law and the West’s glaring double standards in
reacting to such atrocities.

“We are facing a regime that does not recognize any boundary, any law, or
any humanitarian principles,” Iran’s health minister Dr. Mohammad Reza
Zafarqandi said earlier this week, condemning the Israeli strikes. “Even
medical workers and patients are not spared.”

*Strikes on hospitals: A pattern emerges*

One of the latest attacks occurred in the early hours of June 20, when
Israeli rockets struck a hospital in Tehran. According to health ministry
spokesman Dr. Hossein Kermanpour, it marked the third hospital in the
capital to be targeted within a week, as part of a wave of aggression that
began with the Zionist regime’s terrorist assault on Iran on June 13.

“Six ambulances and a comprehensive health service center have also been
brutally attacked by the Zionist enemy,” Kermanpour said.

“There have been at least six violations of international conventions in
the past seven days.”

Despite the gravity of these attacks, Western governments have been mute
spectators, offering no condemnation of Israel’s assault on Iran’s
healthcare community.

“If healthcare workers in any Western nation were attacked in this way, the
outrage would be immediate and global,” said Zafarqandi.

“But when it is Iran—or Palestine—it seems no law applies.”

*Israeli hypocrisy on healthcare protection*

Despite repeated acts of aggression against Iranian medical facilities,
Western media outlets have largely ignored the Zionist regime’s deliberate
strikes on hospitals and ambulances.

Instead, they have amplified a false Israeli claim that Iran attacked
Soroka Hospital in Beersheba, located in the occupied territories.
While the hospital was not directly hit—as Iran targeted a nearby Israeli
military site—Israeli President Isaac Herzog shared images of doctors and
infants in intensive care, while the regime’s health minister Uriel Buso
condemned the strike as a “war crime.”

Global analysts and observers have described Israel’s response as a clear
example of deliberate double standards.

Regime officials were quick to criticize Iran for a strike near a military
target, yet have been leveling hospitals across Gaza since October 7, 2023.
While entire medical complexes were reduced to rubble and patients buried
beneath the debris in the besieged Strip, the Zionist entity continued to
justify the bombardment under false pretexts.

*Gaza’s healthcare system: Facing a catastrophe*

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 94 percent of hospitals
in Gaza have been either destroyed or rendered non-functional by Israeli
bombing campaigns.

Since the launch of Israel’s genocidal war on the besieged strip on October
7, 2023, the Zionist regime has destroyed all Palestinian hospitals,
including Al-Ahli Arab Hospital, the Turkish-Palestinian Friendship
Hospital, and the Gaza European Hospital.

Other hospitals in Rafah, northern Gaza, and central Gaza City have been
completely flattened. Ambulance convoys and mobile clinics have been bombed
mid-transit in targeted attacks, killing scores.

Last month, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, a Geneva-based human rights
organization, declared that the “pattern of attacks (on medical facilities)
showed intent beyond battlefield necessity.”

“These attacks are not merely aimed at physical infrastructure or health
facilities alone. They are designed to engineer slow death, pushing Gaza
toward total collapse by depriving civilians of even the most basic means
of survival,” Euro-Med reported.

A report by the United Nations found that Israel’s pattern of deadly
attacks on and near hospitals in Gaza “pushed the healthcare system to the
brink of total collapse, with catastrophic effect on Palestinians’ access
to health and medical care.”

*The silence that kills*

Analysts warn that if global criminal silence persists, the impunity that
led to the destruction of Gaza’s hospitals may become a dangerous precedent
for further acts of devastation by the Israeli regime in other places.

The absence of international condemnation following attacks on Iranian and
Palestinian medical facilities has exposed a disturbing breakdown in the
global commitment to human rights and the protection of civilians, as per
experts.

In both Gaza and Tehran, hospitals have come under deliberate attack, which
constitutes a clear violation of international law. Yet, global
institutions remain conspicuously silent, failing to hold the regime
accountable for its war crimes.

Israel has repeatedly breached the Geneva Conventions, which are designed
to protect civilians and medical personnel during armed conflict.

In Gaza, entire healthcare systems have been reduced to rubble. Now, in
Iran, doctors and paramedics are being directly targeted. In both
instances, Israel is systematically assaulting healthcare infrastructure
and personnel in blatant defiance of international legal norms.
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