Ambassador Mohammed Al-Emadi, Chairman of the Qatari Committee for the Reconstruction of Gaza, expressed the State of Qatar’s strong denunciation of the allegations of the Israeli occupation army spokesman that there are tunnels under the Sheikh Hamad Hospital for Artificial Limbs in Gaza without concrete evidence or an independent investigation, and considered it a blatant attempt to justify the occupation’s targeting of civilian objects, including this includes hospitals, schools, population centers, and shelters for displaced people.

Ambassador Al-Emadi confirmed, in a statement to Qatar News Agency, that Sheikh Hamad Hospital in Gaza was established transparently in accordance with the highest international standards under the supervision of the Qatari Committee for the Reconstruction of Gaza, with Israeli approval, for medical purposes and that thousands of people in Gaza benefited from it, stressing that such allegations should not be made arbitrarily. He demanded that the Israeli narrative not be taken as a present reality without an independent investigation into the allegations it constitutes, warning at the same time against using it as a pretext to target civilian facilities.

He warned Israeli authorities that targeting Sheikh Hamad Hospital in Gaza means depriving thousands of patients of its services, and will be added to the series of war crimes committed by Israel against civilians and their service facilities, especially the atrocities that recently affected a number of hospitals and ambulance convoys.

He explained that Sheikh Hamad Hospital in Gaza, which was established with funding from the Qatar Fund for Development, and with the implementation of the committee, provides therapeutic services in the departments of prosthetics, motor and verbal rehabilitation, occupational therapy, nursing, speech and swallowing, audiology, and children, considering the hospital one of the most important medical facilities. In Gaza, which provides essential services to a wide segment of civilians.

Ambassador Al-Emadi called on the international community to line up firmly to condemn the targeting of health services in Gaza, and to oblige Israel to respect international laws, warning of the danger of giving Israel a green light to indiscriminately bomb Gaza’s population and infrastructure.