From Our Correspondent
The Palestinian Ambassador to Nigeria, Abu Shawesh, has called on the United Nations and African Union to set up an independent commission of inquiry into Tuesday’s attack on a hospital in Gaza.
The Envoy made the call while addressing Journalists on the attack in Abuja.
He said women and children died when Israeli Air Force jets allegedly struck the Baptist Hospital in Gaza.
Shawesh said the hospital, located side-by-side with the Baptist Church, had served as a haven for families displaced by the ongoing war.
He also said that medical personnel rejected calls by Israeli authorities for people to evacuate the hospital.
They said doing so would amount to slow killing of sick and injured patients receiving healthcare services.
He alleged that “before the end of Tuesday at 5.30 p.m. (Jerusalem time), Israeli occupation war aircraft bombed the Baptist Hospital in Gaza.
“The displaced families believed that this hospital was completely immune from military attacks, by international law.
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“The death toll of Palestinians in this massacre has so far reached about 900 people.
“The majority of them are women and children, in addition to several hundred wounded.
“Since Oct. 7, the death toll on Palestinian side is over 3,000, of which two to three-thirds are children and women.
“More than a thousand are still missing under the rubbles.
“I call for the setting up of a humanitarian court by an independent body such as the United Nations and African Union aside from the West.
“Many Western media outlets are waging a dirty war against the Palestinian people by broadcasting and distributing dozens of false and fake news,” Shawesh said.
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