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HRW: Israeli attacks on Gaza hospitals should be investigated as war crimes
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Nov. 14 (UPI) -- Human Rights Watch on Tuesday called on Israel to end attacks on hospitals, which it said should be investigated as war crimes.
The group said that the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory and the International Criminal Court should investigate Israel's attacks on hospitals, stating that no evidence put forward to support claims that Hamas has used hospitals as bases "would justify depriving hospitals and ambulances of their protected status under international humanitarian law."
"Israel's repeated attacks damaging hospitals and harming healthcare workers, already hard hit by an unlawful blockade, have devastated Gaza's healthcare infrastructure," said. A. Kayum Ahmed, HRW special advisor on the right to health. "The strikes on the hospitals have killed hundreds of people and put many patients at grave risk because they're unable to receive proper medical care."
U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday urged Israel to protect Gaza's main Al-Shifa Hospital amid battles between Israeli forces and Hamas fighters close to the complex in Gaza City in the north of the strip.
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