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A doctor at Shahid Baqaei Hospital in Ahvaz in Iran\u2019s southern Khuzestan province emphasized that the children being treated at the facility when the US military attacked the area on Wednesday were suffering serious illnesses, and had to be urgently evacuated while on ventilators and receiving chemotherapy.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere have been patients with various illnesses, cancer patients and special illnesses, who are fragile,\u201d the doctor told Al Jazeera<\/em>. \u201cPeople are not here by accident, they have particular illnesses. The blast wave was intense. It was so close we said they had hit the hospital, the upper floors of the hospital.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hospital director Majid Bouadhar said 211 children had to be urgently taken to nearby facilities after, as Drop Site News<\/em> reported, \u201cmultiple projectiles landed in the immediate surroundings\u201d of the hospital.<\/p>\n

The specialized pediatric center \u201csustained severe shockwaves that shattered windows, triggered intense vibrations, and sparked widespread panic,\u201d reported Drop Site<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Esmaeil Baqaei, a spokesperson for the Iranian Foreign Ministry, said in a statement that the \u201cbarbaric attack\u201d was \u201creminiscent of Israel\u2019s atrocities against healthcare facilities, [and] caused severe suffering and anxiety upon the hospitalized children.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis constitutes a cowardly war crime against the most innocent of human beings \u2014 children who are bravely fighting for their lives,\u201d said Baqaei. \u201cThose who ceaselessly preach human rights, yet deliberately turn a blind eye to the targeting of hospitals and health centers, have forfeited every shred of moral credibility.\u201d<\/p>\n

Assal Rad of the Arab Center Washington, DC said, \u201cImagine the coverage in Western media if it was a children\u2019s hospital in Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n

The strikes came days after President Donald Trump notified Congress that he had ordered \u201cdefensive strikes\u201d in Iran, claiming the War Powers Resolution of 1973 gave him the authority to do so. The US strikes were renewed despite a negotiated memorandum of understanding to end hostilities that was agreed to in mid-June.<\/p>\n

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The president this week also renewed his previous threat to attack civilian infrastructure unless there is a new deal by next week \u2014 a war crime under international law \u2014 as the Iranian military attacked US military assets in Kuwait and Jordan.<\/p>\n

The attack near the hospital was just one sign that the US has already begun striking civilian infrastructure, particularly in port cities and towns across Iran\u2019s southern coast.<\/p>\n

The war that was started by Israel and the US in late February, which Trump said would last a few weeks, is now in its fifth month as the president aims to take control of the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n

The Iranian Embassy in Kenya noted that days before the US forced the evacuation of hundreds of children in Ahvaz, Trump said the military was being \u201cvery careful with civilians.\u201d<\/p>\n

The war has killed more than 3,400 people in Iran, including hundreds of children in attacks on schools and other civilian infrastructure.<\/p>\n

Al Jazeera<\/em> reported Thursday that the US also struck the main building of a civilian airport and a storage facility in Semnan, near Tehran. The outlet also reported on US strikes across the southern port city of Bushehr, where Iran\u2019s only civilian nuclear plant is located.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis port is used completely for tourism and commercial business such as for oil,\u201d one man said in a video posted by the outlet. \u201cIt has nothing to do with the military.\u201d<\/p>\n

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