UN experts have decried Israel’s raid on an embattled hospital in northern Gaza, demanding an end to the “blatant assault” on health rights in the besieged Palestinian territory, AFP reports.

Reiterating charges that Israel is committing “genocide” in Gaza, two independent United Nations rights experts said they were “horrified” by the raid last Friday on Kamal Adwan, northern Gaza’s last functioning major hospital.

“For well over a year into the genocide, Israel’s blatant assault on the right to health in Gaza and the rest of the occupied Palestinian territory is plumbing new depths of impunity,” the experts said in a statement.

“We are horrified and concerned by reports from northern Gaza.”

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