UAE condemns Israeli bombing of Gaza hospital, rejects targeting civilian facilities

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The Israeli airstrike on Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis on November 12 killed at least six Palestinians, including a surgeon and a teenage boy ...

The UAE has strongly condemned and denounced the Israeli bombing of Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, stressing the need to protect medical facilities, institutions and healthcare workers.

In a statement, the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) said the strike resulted in the deaths and injuries of several innocent people and constitues a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law.

The Israeli airstrike on southern Gaza's main hospital on November 12 killed at least six Palestinians including a surgeon and a teenage boy, medics said, the latest Israeli attack to undermine a year-old ceasefire in the war-shattered territory.

MoFA also warned against continued Israeli attacks and military escalation, which are exacerbating the catastrophic humanitarian crisis in the Strip. It reaffirmed the UAE's unequivocal rejection of targeting civilians and civilian institutions, stressing the need to protect medical facilities, institutions and healthcare workers, and ensure they are not made targets of the conflict.

The ministry also stressed that the urgent priority is to safeguard civilian lives and ensure the immediate, intensified and safe delivery of humanitarian, relief and medical aid to the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip without any obstacles.

It called on the international community to step up all regional and international efforts to establish a serious political horizon that contributes to achieving a comprehensive peace based on the two-state solution and fulfils the hopes and aspirations of the Palestinian people to establish an independent, sovereign state, in accordance with relevant international legitimacy resolutions.

Besides the MoFA statement, Foreign ministers of the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar, Kuwait, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Algeria, Palestine, Libya, Mauritania, Djibouti, Somalia, Turkey, Pakistan, Indonesia, and Sudan condemn the strike in the strongest terms.

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