TEHRAN - Gandhi Hospital in central Tehran, alongside a nearby residential building, sustained severe damage from strikes carried out by the United States and Israel on Sunday night.

The hospital's administration confirmed that the facility has been completely evacuated. Footage obtained from locals immediately following the attack depicted medical personnel urgently transferring newborns from incubators. Subsequent reports confirm that the hospital's In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) center was destroyed in the assault.

The attack is a grave violation of international law and constitutes a war crime. Under the Geneva Conventions and customary international humanitarian law, medical facilities, personnel, and patients are specifically protected entities and must never be the object of attack.

This strike marks the seventh such documented assault against Iranian medical facilities since the conflict commenced on February 28. Hours after the hospital attack, the U.S. and Israel also targeted the main headquarters of Tehran's Emergency Medical Services (EMS), resulting in injuries to several aid workers.

Furthermore, in a 56-hour period, Israel and the U.S. have reportedly struck two other hospitals in Tehran, the capital's Red Crescent Headquarters, and three additional medical facilities located in other Iranian cities.

The destruction of the medical system was a pattern the two regimes have also followed in Gaza, where almost no operating medical facility remains after over two years of non-stop bombardment.