Israel’s Ambassador to India, Reuven Azar, firmly responded to senior news anchor and well-known Congress mouthpiece and ‘journalist’ Rajdeep Sardesai, after the latter attempted to equate Iran’s missile strike on an Israeli hospital with Israeli strikes on Hamas-controlled hospitals in Gaza.
Rajdeep, in his signature late-night virtue-signaling, posted on X stated, “Late night musing: when Iran attacks a hospital in Israel , it’s a ‘war crime’.. When Israel attacks a hospital in Gaza, it’s being justified because terrorists are supposedly hiding in hospital. Be it in Israel or Gaza or a Teheran tomorrow , any attack on a hospital that leads to civilian deaths is a war crime. Period.”
Late night musing: when Iran attacks a hospital in Israel , it’s a ‘war crime’.. When Israel attacks a hospital in Gaza, it’s being justified because terrorists are supposedly hiding in hospital. Be it in Israel or Gaza or a Teheran tomorrow , any attack on a hospital that leads…
— Rajdeep Sardesai (@sardesairajdeep) June 19, 2025
Ambassador Azar wasn’t having any of it. In a pointed reply, he schooled Sardesai’s flawed comparison and misunderstanding of international law, stated, “You are wrong. Under international law, when a humanitarian facility is used for military purposes, it looses its immunity. Despite that, Israel has taken measures to clear civilians out of harm’s way even when the Hamas terrorists used hospitals to hide, before targeting.”
He further clarified that, “Israel doesn’t use hospitals to conceal military activities and therefore attacking them is a war crime.”
You are wrong. Under international law, when a humanitarian facility is used for military purposes, it looses its immunity.
Despite that, Israel has taken measures to clear civilians out of harm’s way even when the Hamas terrorists used hospitals to hide, before targeting.… https://t.co/XQpSw1tqiI— 🇮🇱 Reuven Azar (@ReuvenAzar) June 20, 2025
Azar’s sharp rebuttal comes as a reality check for those drawing false equivalence between a nation defending itself from terrorists embedded within civilian infrastructure, and hostile regimes directly targeting civilian medical facilities. Once again, a foreign diplomat had to set the record straight—something left elites seem to struggle with.
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