TEHRAN - Iran’s Foreign Ministry has condemned the Israeli crime in targeting journalists inside the Al-Aqsa Hospital compound in the city of Deir el-Balah in central Gaza.

At least four Palestinians were killed and 16 injured, including several journalists, on Sunday in an Israeli airstrike on a tent for displaced people on the grounds of the Al-Aqsa Hospital compound, medical sources reported.

The Gaza government media office said Israel "committed a new massacre inside a hospital that provides medical service for displaced people and citizens" and held Israel and the US “fully responsible for this crime.”

In a post on his X account on, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said an immediate end to Israel's crimes and the legal and judicial prosecution of Israeli criminals are the "definite" responsibility of world assemblies and the demand of public opinion across the globe.

According to Press TV, he added that the world is witnessing the continuation of Israel's "terrible war crimes" in the Gaza Strip, emphasizing that the latest crime by the Israeli regime in Deir el-Balah violated international rules and regulations.

Israel's savage crimes against the residents of the besieged Gaza Strip are an "eternal and indelible stain" on the regime's hypocritical supporters, the spokesperson pointed out.