to report «iusnews»; Iranian President Seyed Ebrahim Rayeesi vehemently condemned Israeli fatal strike on a hospital in the Gaza city, warning that the flames of the medical facility will soon engulf the Zionist regime.
"The flames of the American-Israeli bombs that were dropped on the heads of the oppressed wounded Palestinians at Gaza's Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital would soon devour Zionists," Rayeesi wrote in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, on Tuesday.
"The silence of any free person is not permissible in the face of this war crime," he remarked, declaring Wednesday as the day of "public mourning" nationwide.
Earlier, Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kana’ani condemned the assault, describing it as a "brutal war crime" and "genocide”.
Preliminary estimates indicate hundreds of people were killed in the blast at the hospital, which was sheltering thousands of displaced people who were forcibly evacuated from their homes during Israeli air raids.
Footage on social media showed bodies scattered across the hospital grounds.
Dr. Ashraf Al-Qudra, a spokesperson for the Palestinian Ministry of Health, described the situation following the deadly attack as "unparalleled and indescribable”.
Conditions are dire for the 2.2 million people caught in the escalating crisis and now trapped in Gaza. Those on the ground warn that nowhere is safe from relentless Israeli airstrikes and the rapidly deteriorating humanitarian situation.
Casualties in Gaza over the past 10 days have now surpassed the number of those killed during the 51-day Gaza-Israel conflict in 2014.
At least 3,200 Palestinians had been killed in Gaza by Israeli bombardment as of Wednesday, according to Gaza’s Ministry of Health.
Several countries in the Middle East and North Africa saw protesters march after hundreds of people died in the explosion.
Demonstrations took place outside the French and British embassies in Tehran, chanting "Death to France, England, America, and the Zionists”.
