Doha - Media & Communication Dept - 10 November 2023

The State of Qatar warns of the Israeli occupation’s clear intention to commit a new massacre in Al-Shifa medical complex in western Gaza. It considers that the repeated provocations by targeting the hospital’s surroundings and the outpatient clinic building therein, are a prelude to targeting the complex where a large number of displaced people have taken refuge. Their number is estimated at 60 thousand, in addition to medical staff, patients and injured people.  The State of Qatar also calls on the international community to intervene urgently to provide protection for the complex and those inside it, stressing that the delay in pressuring the occupation to dissuade it from committing this crime and not condemning its targeting of the hospital’s surroundings will give it a signal to proceed with targeting the complex and other health facilities without discrimination.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs stresses Qatar’s unequivocal rejection of the repeated crimes of the Israeli occupation forces by targeting civilian objects, including hospitals, schools and population centres in Gaza Strip. At the same time, it warns that the silence of the international community regarding the war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by the occupation against the Palestinian people will increase the tension, expand violence, and lead to further escalation and instability. It will also lead to the erosion of trust in the international community and its institutions.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs reiterates Qatar’s firm position on the justice of the Palestinian cause, the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people, and the establishment of an independent state on the 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital.