Iran Press/ Asia: North Korea's foreign ministry accused Israel of bombing a hospital in the Gaza Strip on October 17, saying it had openly committed a war crime "under the undisguised patronage of the United States".
In a statement carried by state-run news agency KCNA, a ministry spokesman also blamed the United States for "giving Israel a green light to massacre Palestinians without any worries" by supplying it with weapons and military support, including deploying aircraft carriers in the Middle East.
North Korea on Monday accused the US of being behind the Israel-Hamas war, saying Washington is "entirely" responsible for the tragedy.
Earlier this month, the North denounced Israel over the conflict, saying it is the "consequence of Israel's ceaseless criminal actions" against the people of Palestine.
“Israel’s bombing of health facilities, which international law requires to be protected as a matter of priority in peacetime and wartime, is an unimaginable war crime and a crime against humanity,” said the ministry spokesperson as cited by the North’s state-run Korea Central News Agency (KCNA) on Oct. 26.
” The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza said 471 died in the blast at the Al-Ahli Hospital on Oct. 17, though the death toll is disputed. A US official said this week that American intelligence operatives have “high confidence” that the explosion was caused by a Palestinian rocket rather than an Israeli strike. 219
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