United Nations Secretary-General condemns attack on Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza

WORLD, Oct. 18 (YPA) – United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, condemned the Israeli massacre at the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in the Gaza Strip, which killed at least 500 people, most of them children and women.

“I am horrified by the killing of hundreds of Palestinian civilians in a strike on a hospital in Gaza today, which I strongly condemn. My heart is with the families of the victims. Hospitals and medical personnel are protected under international humanitarian law,” Guterres wrote in a post on his X account.

The UN Secretary-General also condemned the attack on a school in the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in the Gaza Strip, which killed at least six people.

He further called for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in the Israel-Gaza war.

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