UPDATE - Russia calls Gaza hospital attack war crime, says US ultimately responsible

ADDS REMARKS FROM RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY SPOKESWOMAN

By Faruk Zorlu

Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev labeled Israel's attack on the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza a “war crime," saying the ultimate responsibility for this act lies with the US.

"The horrific attack on a hospital in the Gaza Strip is clearly a war crime,” Medvedev said early Wednesday on Telegram.

"The final responsibility for it lies with those who cynically make money from wars in different countries and on different continents. Who thoughtlessly distribute colossal amounts of money for weapons, loading up their military-industrial complex. Who falsely proclaim their global mission to protect democratic values. USA," he said.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova criticized US policies in response to the Israeli attack on the hospital.

"I follow the news from the Middle East with horror and remember the thesis repeatedly voiced by former US President Barack Obama that thanks to American policy, the world has become much safer. Now we all see how much," Zakharova said on Telegram.

More than 500 people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital on Tuesday, Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra told Anadolu.

Footage on social media showed corpses scattered across the hospital grounds.

According to an Anadolu reporter, thousands of Palestinians were at the hospital when the building came under bombardment.