Ankara (TDI): Turkiye has strongly condemned Israel’s attack on Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital in Gaza.
In the attack, the hospital, which was Gaza’s only cancer treatment facility, was completely destroyed.
Adjacent to the hospital was a medical school which also came under the attack and turned into rubble.
Fortunately, the cancer facility was vacant at the time of the attack but it was one of Gaza’s most important healthcare infrastructures.
Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement, “We strongly condemn Israel’s destruction of the Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital, which was built by Turkiye and operated by local authorities as a cancer treatment facility.”
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— Turkish MFA (@MFATurkiye) March 21, 2025
The statement further noted, “The deliberate targeting of a hospital providing healthcare services to civilians in Gaza constitutes part of Israel’s policy aimed at rendering Gaza uninhabitable and forcibly displacing the Palestinian people.”
Turkiye also called on the international community to take “concrete and deterrent measures” to stop Israel’s unlawful and heinous attacks, targeting civilians and ravishing Gaza’s crucial infrastructure.
The statement categorized Israel’s actions as “systematic state terrorism” and stressed that “all those responsible for the ongoing genocide in Palestine, including Netanyahu himself, will, sooner or later, be held accountable under international law.”
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The United Nations also condemned the attack on the Friendship Hospital.
UN spokesperson Farhan Haq said that the UN is completely against such attacks that target medical infrastructure and that these actions are potential war crimes for they make the suffering of Gaza’s population “intolerable.”
Since unilaterally violating the ceasefire on Tuesday, Israel has resumed attacks with full force.
More than 700 Palestinians have been killed and 900 injured in Israel’s airstrikes. The ceasefire came into effect in January but Israel could not hold it for even two months.
The UN and the world at large are reacting strongly to Israel’s actions and ceasefire violations. Even during the ceasefire time, it did not allow humanitarian aid to reach Gaza.
Nuzhat Rana is an Associate Editor at The Diplomatic Insight.
