“Unfortunately, this is not the first time that the world witnesses that the Zionist regime commits an attack on a hospital, massacring, injuring, or capturing medical staff, patients, and the wounded in violation of all international laws and regulations,” Kan’ani said in a statement on Monday.

He emphasized that attacking medical centers, which are supposed to protected under international humanitarian law, are a blatant violation of “the most basic principles of international human rights and humanitarian law.”

Earlier in the day, Israeli occupying forces stormed al-Shifa hospital with tanks and heavy gunfire, killing and wounding a number of Palestinians sheltering in the medical complex.

“In recent months that the Zionist regime’s killing machine has not spared any brutal act against the innocent people of Palestine in the world’s largest open-air prison; hospitals, medical centers, and medical staff have been targeted in savage attacks,” Kan’ani added.

MNA