Attacks on hospitals, schools ‘strike at life itself’: Pezeshkian

Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian condemned the US-Israeli strikes targeting the Gandhi Hospital in Tehran and an elementary school in the Hormozgan Province, stating that attacks on medical facilities strike “at life itself” and assaults on schools jeopardize “a nation’s future.”

In a post on X on Monday, Pezeshkian wrote, “Attacks on hospitals strike at life itself. Attacks on schools target a nation’s future.”

He stressed that “targeting patients and children blatantly violates humanitarian principles.”

The Iranian president called for the international community to censure these atrocities.

"Iran will not remain silent or yield to these crimes,” Pezeshkian said.

He also affirmed his profound support for the grieving Iranian nation following the martyrdom of Leader of the Islamic Revolution Sayyed Ali Khamenei in the US-Israeli aggression.

Meanwhile, Fatemeh Mohammad Beigi, a member of the Parliament’s Health and Treatment Commission, reported that five hospitals and medical centers sustained damage or destruction in US and Israeli airstrikes.

“Unfortunately, this illegal act of aggression resulted not only in the destruction of the buildings of hospitals and medical centers but also the injury of a number of students and local residents,” Mohammad Beigi stated on Monday.

She noted that some medical centers were evacuated due to fears of further attacks.

US-Israeli attacks damage 5 hospitals, medical centers in Iran: MP

An Iranian lawmaker says five hospitals and medical centers have been damaged or destroyed in the US-Israeli attacks on the country.

The lawmaker confirmed that relief and rescue teams from the Iranian Red Crescent Society and emergency medical services are actively deployed nationwide, coordinating efforts for relief operations, rubble removal, and casualty transfer.

Shervin Tabrizi, spokesman for Iran’s emergency medical services, confirmed a US-Israel aerial assault on a facility in Tehran, severely damaging its building and causing minor injuries to several medical staff, including the head of emergency medical services.

Meanwhile, the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, expressed extreme concern over the damage to Gandhi Hospital in Tehran.

He posted on X, stating, “Reports of Tehran’s Gandhi Hospital being damaged during today’s bombardment of the Iranian capital are extremely worrying.”

Ghebreyesus reiterated that “all efforts must be taken to prevent health facilities from being caught up in the ongoing conflict,” emphasizing that “Health facilities are protected under international humanitarian law” with the hashtag “#healthisnotatarget.”

The US and Israel started a fresh round of aerial aggression on Iran on February 28, some eight months after they carried out unprovoked attacks on the country.

The aggression was launched even as Iran and the US were in the midst of nuclear talks, having held three rounds of indirect negotiations in the Omani capital of Muscat and the Swiss city of Geneva.

Iran began to swiftly retaliate against the strikes by launching barrages of missile and drone attacks on the Israeli-occupied territories as well as on US bases in regional countries.

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