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A doctor at Shahid Baqaei Hospital in Ahvaz in Iran’s 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.
“There have been patients with various illnesses, cancer patients and special illnesses, who are fragile,” the doctor told Al Jazeera. “People 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.”
Hospital director Majid Bouadhar said 211 children had to be urgently taken to nearby facilities after, as Drop Site News reported, “multiple projectiles landed in the immediate surroundings” of the hospital.
The specialized pediatric center “sustained severe shockwaves that shattered windows, triggered intense vibrations, and sparked widespread panic,” reported Drop Site.
Iranians are inspecting the damage from days of US strikes on key cities in the country’s south and west. Residents say attacks have damaged ports and at least one hospital. pic.twitter.com/LDOBmbENDd — Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) July 16, 2026
Esmaeil Baqaei, a spokesperson for the Iranian Foreign Ministry, said in a statement that the “barbaric attack” was “reminiscent of Israel’s atrocities against healthcare facilities, [and] caused severe suffering and anxiety upon the hospitalized children.”
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Something I have noticed about the Ukraine war is that right now Ukraine has good intelligence on specific targets with a tight focus on their overall strategy to blunt russias overwhelming fighting force. They have been incredibly successful at it. On the other hand russia doesnt have a great strategy with a tight focus other than the generl ifa of conquer that country. Which means that they dont have specific targets that they need to pummel and so even if they have better intelligence, it doesn’t really matter. As such they keep attacking civilian targets with the hopes that it will demoralize the country. A strategy that more often than not has the opposite effect.
I say this for no particular reason.