Iran accuses US of 'cowardly war crime' as doctor says blast was 'so close' they thought the hospital was struck.

Iran has accused the United States of committing a “cowardly war crime” by striking near a children’s cancer hospital and compared its actions to Israel’s targeting of healthcare facilities in Gaza.

A doctor at the treatment centre told reporters the blast was “intense” and “so close” that they thought the hospital had been hit.

“This constitutes a cowardly war crime against the most innocent of human beings – children who are bravely fighting for their lives.”

Dr Majid Bou’azar, manager of the hospital, told Al Jazeera the 211 patients “were forced to relocate” because of the strikes.

“These are special patients, including cancer patients, who are hospitalised here … Some of the patients [were] on oxygen and ventilators,” another staff member told Al Jazeera. “Some people had children in their arms, some had IVs in their hands, and some were in wheelchairs.”

      • Coleslaw4145@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 month ago

        You say it like a joke but it’s true.

        The American Service Members Protection Act was specifically drawn up to give the US military authorisation to use its full military force to prevent Americans from being tried in international criminal courts like The Hague.

        The act also protects Israeli’s.

  • kreskin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    29 days ago

    Its hard to believe America the beautiful, land of the free and brave and so on and so forth is blowing up school and hospitals, and is under the leadership of openly pedophile rapists while also being openly bribed by filthy genociders to support massive war crimes.

    A decade ago this would have been beyond anyones wildest imagination.