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US-Israeli attacks damage 5 hospitals, medical centers in Iran
A member of the Iranian Parliament says five hospitals and medical centers have been damaged or destroyed during the US-Israeli terrorist attacks on the Islamic Republic. "Unfortunately, this illegal act of aggression resulted not only in the destruction of the buildings of hospitals and medical centers but also the injury of a number of students and local residents," Fatemeh Mohammad Beigi, a member of the Parliament`s Health and Treatment Commission, said on Monday. She added that a number of these medical centers have been evacuated in fear of more attacks. According to Mohammad Beigi, relief and rescue teams of the Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) and emergency medical services are active in all provinces across the country. The lawmaker explained that the "swift" process of relief operations, rubble removal, and transfer of the injured is underway "with full coordination." She said all the heath infrastructures across the country are ready to provide services to the injured. The US and Israel started a fresh round of aerial aggression on Iran on February 28, some eight months after they carried out unprovoked attacks on the country. The Saturday attacks led to the martyrdom of Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei. The aggression was launched even as Iran and the US were in the midst of nuclear talks, having held three rounds of indirect negotiations in the Omani capital of Muscat and the Swiss city of Geneva. Iran began to swiftly retaliate against the strikes by launching barrages of missile and drone attacks on the Israeli-occupied territories as well as on US bases in regional countries. Meanwhile, spokesman of Iran`s emergency medical services Shervin Tabrizi said the enemies carried out an aerial aggression against the center in Tehran, severely damaging the building. He added that the building was evacuated immediately but several medical staff were slightly wounded. He said despite the damage, relief work is currently underway in another place. In another development, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus expressed his extreme concern an airstrike that damaged Gandhi Hospital in Tehran. In an X post, Ghebreyesus said: "Reports of Tehran`s Gandhi Hospital being damaged during today`s bombardment of the Iranian capital are extremely worrying." "But it serves as a reminder that all efforts must be taken to prevent health facilities from being caught up in the ongoing conflict," the WHO chief said. "Health facilities are protected under international humanitarian law." He used a hashtag, saying "health is not a target."
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