ANKARA: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan Tuesday strongly criticized Israel over its brutal airstrikes targeting a hospital in the unlawfully blockaded Gaza Strip, Turkish media reported.
Erdogan Blasts Israel over Brutal Airstrike on Gaza Hospital
In a statement via social media President Erdogan said that targeting a hospital where there are children, women, and innocent people is the latest example of Israel’s assaults devoid of basic human values. Erdogan said, “I call on entire humanity to take measures to prevent Israel’s unprecedented brutality in Gaza”.
İçerisinde kadınların, çocukların, masum sivillerin olduğu bir hastaneyi vurmak, İsrail’in en temel insani değerlerden yoksun saldırılarının son örneğidir.
Gazze’de yaşanan ve tarihte benzeri olmayan bu vahşeti durdurmak için tüm insanlığı harekete geçmeye davet ediyorum.
— Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (@RTErdogan) October 17, 2023
Turkish Foreign Ministry also strongly condemned Israel’s deadly airstrike on Gaza’s hospital, Turkish media reported. In a statement, the Foreign Ministry said that it strongly denounced Israel’s brutal airstrike on Gaza Hospital. The Ministry said that it also wished a speedy recovery for the injured people. It further said that the perpetrators of brutal acts targeting civilian infrastructure must be made accountable before global law.
More than 500 people were killed and many remain severely injured as the latest Israeli airstrike hit a hospital in Gaza, the Palestinian Health ministry said pic.twitter.com/8RabFRuOFI
— TRT World (@trtworld) October 17, 2023
Earlier, the health ministry in the Gaza Strip confirmed that at least 500 innocent Palestinian civilians, including women and children, were martyred in a brutal Israeli airstrike on al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City.
The hospital, a place of refuge for thousands seeking medical treatment and shelter amidst relentless Israeli bombardment, targeting commercial buildings, schools, homes and civilian residences, was hit in what Gaza’s Hamas government described as a “war crime.”
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The hospital, which was also sheltering people forcibly displaced from their homes due to Israeli airstrikes, was reduced to rubble. Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, the head of pediatrics at the Kamal Adwan Hospital, condemned the attack, calling it “unconscionable.” He emphasized the urgent need for international intervention to stop the targeting of hospitals and civilians in Gaza.
