Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said that the violent aerial assaults carried out by Israeli warplanes on the grounds of the European Gaza Hospital and its surrounding areas in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, have forced the hospital out of service and resulted in the deaths and injuries of dozens of civilians.These attacks came shortly after the bombing of the Nasser Medical Complex, representing yet another episode in a systematic campaign to eliminate spaces of survival and destroy what little remains of safe havens for Gaza's population, within the broader framework of the ongoing genocide in the Strip, Euro-Med Monitor said in a statement.’These attacks are not merely aimed at physical infrastructure or health facilities alone. Rather, they appear designed to engineer slow death, pushing Gaza toward total collapse by depriving civilians of even the most basic means of survival-and stripping them of any chance at life. This is part of a deliberate strategy to uproot Palestinian existence in Gaza from its foundations,’ the statement said.The hospital administration announced a sudden shutdown of electricity and oxygen systems, posing a critical threat to the lives of patients. It said that medical teams were unable to perform surgeries on the wounded from the renewed attacks, forcing them to transfer patients to Nasser Hospital. The hospital's operating theatres went out of service, and its buildings sustained serious structural damage.’Israeli claims of underground militant infrastructure in or around the hospital follow a pattern of unverified allegations used to justify attacks on medical facilities throughout the war-none of which have ever been substantiated,’ Euro-Med Monitor said.It stressed that these claims are part of a familiar tactic to justify war crimes. Similar narratives were used in previous attacks on Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City and Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, where no military targets were found.’Israel's recurring claims of ‘military use’ of hospitals reflect a pre-scripted narrative used to retroactively justify systematic killings and destruction. These allegations, however, collapse under scrutiny due to the complete lack of credible evidence. Viewed in a broader context, they reveal a deliberate policy of targeting civilian infrastructure, particularly hospitals, which have consistently been central targets, without any legal justification and in direct violation of the protections afforded to medical facilities under international humanitarian law,’ Euro-Med Monitor said.
