Bombing hospital or school isn’t a ‘miscalculation’ but ‘war crimes’: WHO chief

The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) on Sunday condemned recent attacks on hospitals, schools and medical personnel in the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, saying such actions cannot be dismissed as “miscalculations” or “collateral damage” and should be recognized as war crimes, Anadolu reports. “Bombing a hospital or a school isn’t a ‘miscalculation.’ Killing a paramedic isn’t ‘collateral damage.’ Starving civilians isn’t ‘negotiating tactic.’ These are war crimes. Full stop. Call it what it is,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on the US social media company X. At least 150 schoolgirls were killed in an airstrike on Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in the southern Iranian city of Minab on Feb. 28, when the US and Israel […]