The Secretary-General of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), Jasem Al-Budaiwi, on Monday strongly condemned the heinous crime committed by the Israeli occupation forces by targeting medical, relief, and media personnel inside the Nasser Medical Complex in the city of Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip.

In a press statement, Al-Budaiwi stated that this criminal act represents a blatant violation of all international and humanitarian laws and a brazen defiance of international legitimacy resolutions that protect civilian facilities and personnel working in humanitarian and media fields. It also reveals a systematic policy by the occupation forces to commit crimes against the brotherly Palestinian people without any regard for human values or international covenants.

He reiterated his call for the international community to take immediate and decisive action to stop these repeated attacks, hold their perpetrators accountable, and provide urgent international protection for humanitarian, relief, and media crews in the Gaza Strip.

He called for intensifying international efforts to deliver medical, humanitarian, and relief aid to the Strip urgently and without restrictions or conditions, and to put an end to the ongoing violations by the Israeli occupation, which have exacerbated the humanitarian tragedy of the brotherly Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and threatened security and stability in the region.

The health authorities in the Gaza Strip announced today the martyrdom of 14 Palestinians, including four journalists, in an Israeli occupation airstrike that targeted the Nasser Medical Complex in the city of Khan Younis, south of Gaza. A number of journalists had been using the complex as their workplace after their press institutions' offices were destroyed.