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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Israeli aggression against Iran includes attacks on hospitals, ambulances</h1>
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<div class="gmail-reader-estimated-time">June 23, 2025</div>
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<div class="gmail-moz-reader-content gmail-reader-show-element"><div id="gmail-readability-page-1" class="gmail-page"><div><img src="cid:ii_mc8pm5mi0" alt="7c99f007-33cc-4d3c-a4c6-6ff31917eb55.jpg" width="467" height="262"><br><p><strong>By Humaira Ahad</strong></p><p><strong>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.</strong></p><p>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.</p><p>The indiscriminate assault on Iran\u2019s
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.</p><p>It lays bare, yet
again, the Israeli regime\u2019s flagrant disregard for international
humanitarian law and the West\u2019s glaring double standards in reacting to
such atrocities.</p><p>\u201cWe are facing a regime that does not recognize
any boundary, any law, or any humanitarian principles,\u201d Iran\u2019s health
minister Dr. Mohammad Reza Zafarqandi said earlier this week, condemning
the Israeli strikes. \u201cEven medical workers and patients are not
spared.\u201d</p><p><strong>Strikes on hospitals: A pattern emerges</strong></p><p>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\u2019s terrorist assault on
Iran on June 13.</p><p>\u201cSix ambulances and a comprehensive health
service center have also been brutally attacked by the Zionist enemy,\u201d
Kermanpour said.</p><p>\u201cThere have been at least six violations of international conventions in the past seven days.\u201d</p><p>Despite
the gravity of these attacks, Western governments have been mute
spectators, offering no condemnation of Israel\u2019s assault on Iran\u2019s
healthcare community.</p><p>\u201cIf healthcare workers in any Western nation
were attacked in this way, the outrage would be immediate and global,\u201d
said Zafarqandi.</p><p>\u201cBut when it is Iran\u2014or Palestine\u2014it seems no law applies.\u201d</p><p><strong>Israeli hypocrisy on healthcare protection</strong></p><p>Despite
repeated acts of aggression against Iranian medical facilities, Western
media outlets have largely ignored the Zionist regime\u2019s deliberate
strikes on hospitals and ambulances.</p><p>Instead, they have amplified a
false Israeli claim that Iran attacked Soroka Hospital in Beersheba,
located in the occupied territories.<br> While the hospital was not
directly hit\u2014as Iran targeted a nearby Israeli military site\u2014Israeli
President Isaac Herzog shared images of doctors and infants in intensive
care, while the regime\u2019s health minister Uriel Buso condemned the
strike as a \u201cwar crime.\u201d</p><p>Global analysts and observers have described Israel\u2019s response as a clear example of deliberate double standards.</p><p>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.</p><p><strong>Gaza\u2019s healthcare system: Facing a catastrophe</strong></p><p>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.</p><p>Since the launch of Israel\u2019s 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.</p><p>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.</p><p>Last
month, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, a Geneva-based human rights
organization, declared that the \u201cpattern of attacks (on medical
facilities) showed intent beyond battlefield necessity.\u201d</p><p>\u201cThese
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,\u201d Euro-Med reported.</p><p>A report by the United
Nations found that Israel\u2019s pattern of deadly attacks on and near
hospitals in Gaza \u201cpushed the healthcare system to the brink of total
collapse, with catastrophic effect on Palestinians\u2019 access to health and
medical care.\u201d</p><p><strong>The silence that kills</strong></p><p>Analysts
warn that if global criminal silence persists, the impunity that led to
the destruction of Gaza\u2019s hospitals may become a dangerous precedent
for further acts of devastation by the Israeli regime in other places.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>Israel has
repeatedly breached the Geneva Conventions, which are designed to
protect civilians and medical personnel during armed conflict.</p><p>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.</p></div></div></div>
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