Strike on Gandhi Hospital — Tehran

On the evening of March 1, 2026 (10 Esfand 1404), the second day of the US-Israeli air campaign against Iran, strikes hit the area surrounding Gandhi Hospital on Gandhi Street in northern Tehran. The blast caused significant structural damage to the hospital building: windows were shattered, the facade was damaged, and the neonatal ward was critically compromised. Nurses were filmed by Tasnim News Agency urgently carrying newborn infants from their incubators and evacuating them via ambulance. The hospital's IVF fertility centre was reported to have been destroyed, with equipment ruined and stored embryos requiring emergency relocation. Hospital director Mohammad Hassan Bani Asad confirmed that at least one staff member sustained serious injuries, including brain bleeding requiring surgery. Mohammad Raeiszadeh, head of Iran's Medical Council, confirmed the destruction of the IVF department on Monday March 2. Geolocation analysis by Al Jazeera and Iranian outlets indicated that the strike struck buildings housing IRIB Channel 2 and an adjacent radio transmitter (Alwand antenna), with the blast wave and debris causing extensive collateral damage to the hospital immediately opposite. The Iranian Ministry of Health announced the hospital was being evacuated. Health Ministry spokesman Dr. Hossein Kermanpour wrote: the hospital "was targeted with the same type of missile used on the Shajareh Tayyebeh school" in Minab, where approximately 180 young children were killed the previous day. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus described reports of the attack as "extremely worrying" and reiterated that health facilities are protected under international humanitarian law. The ICRC's head of delegation in Iran, Vincent Cassard, stated that attacks affecting humanitarian centres are prohibited under international law. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei called the deliberate targeting of civilian infrastructure, medical facilities, and schools "blatant war crimes and crimes against humanity."