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Mahmoud Mohamed – Tripoli
Continued attacks on the forces of Major General Khalifa Hafter retired in hospitals and medical personnel in Libya, no later than Monday after the aerial bombardment of the Zatarna hospital field south of Tripoli, at the time calls for an international inquiry.
The Presidential Council of the Government of National Reconciliation has described the attacks on civilian facilities and field hospitals as "war crimes" by Hafar forces, in accordance with international humanitarian law and international human rights law. .
He said in a statement that the relevant government authorities were documenting these crimes in the judiciary and calling on the international community, through its legal and judicial institutions, to shoulder its responsibilities in the face of abuses committed by aggressive militias.
International survey
"Shelling and direct targeting are repeated on our medical teams and most of our field hospitals have been attacked, so international organizations must act to document and hold the perpetrators accountable," said Health Minister Humaid Ben Omar .
He added in an interview with Al Jazeera Net that the two main hospitals directly affected were Gharian Hospitals and Ali Omar Askar, as well as the destruction of field hospitals and the loss of the best medical staff.
The Minister of Health has called for a thorough international investigation to identify those responsible for these crimes, bring them to justice and ensure that the aggression of medical personnel does not happen again.
He emphasized that his ministry was doing its best to provide treatment and humanitarian service to families in conflict areas, and to activate emergency management to provide badistance to IDPs.
| Bin Omar: International organizations must act to document and empower actors (Al Jazeera) |
Continuous bombing
"We went on the Zatarna axis to support the medical staff, and we were hit by more than one rocket from a plane," said Samer Kheil, coordinator of the campaign hospital of Wadi al-Rabea. "One of our colleagues, injured in the bombing, was taken to the hospital and is in stable condition."
The direct campaign targeting of field hospitals by aerial bombardment or guided missiles against ambulances was a surprise, although ambulances and field hospitals are not near the front lines.
He said hospitals and medical personnel were targeted directly at 37 people, including four bombed sites and 33 artillery shells, in which 11 people were killed and 33 wounded.
War crimes
The National Human Rights Commission of Libya has strongly condemned the targeting of medical centers and its staff, especially the Al Zahraa field hospital located on the road to the airport, which belongs at the Center for Humanitarian Medicine of the Ministry of Health.
"Direct and repeated attacks on field hospitals, paramedics and medical personnel have claimed many lives and constitute a violation of international and humanitarian law," said Ahmad Hamza, Commissioner of the National Human Rights Committee. for Al-Jazeera Net.
He emphasized that these flagrant and repeated attacks constituted a clear war crime contrary to international conventions and international humanitarian law, namely article 20, which provides for the protection of workers employed in the administration and operation of hospitals. and ambulance teams that transport and evacuate the wounded from military operations.
Hamza called on the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to open an independent international investigation into all crimes and gross violations of human rights perpetrated against medical staff and hospitals.
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