ANKARA - Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev labeled Israel's attack on the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza a "clear war crime," saying the ultimate responsibility for this act lies with the United States.
"The horrific attack on a hospital in the Gaza Strip is clearly a war crime,” Anadolu Agency reported Medvedev as saying on Telegram.
"The final responsibility for it lies with those who cynically make money from wars in different countries and on different continents. Who thoughtlessly distributes colossal amounts of money for weapons, loading up their military-industrial complex. Who falsely proclaims their global mission to protect democratic values. USA," he said.
More than 500 people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital on Tuesday, Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra told Anadolu.
Footage on social media showed corpses scattered across the hospital grounds.
According to an Anadolu reporter, thousands of Palestinians were at the hospital when the building came under bombardment. - BERNAMA