Afghanistan accuses Pakistan of killing hundreds in Kabul hospital strike

A reported airstrike connected a infirmary successful Afghanistan that allegedly near hundreds dormant is drafting increasing scrutiny, not lone implicit the onslaught itself but implicit what critics picture arsenic a muted planetary response.

Afghanistan’s Taliban-led authorities said much than 400 radical were killed and hundreds were wounded aft a onslaught deed the Omid Hospital, a large cause rehabilitation installation successful Kabul, according to Reuters. Civilians, including children, besides person been killed successful escalating cross-border strikes successful Pakistan, The Associated Press reported. 

The casualty figures person not been independently verified.

The onslaught comes amid a rapidly escalating subject run betwixt Pakistan and Afghanistan that has intensified implicit the past 3 weeks.

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The tract of a cause rehabilitation infirmary that was destroyed successful what the Taliban said was a Pakistani aerial onslaught successful Kabul, Afghanistan, March 17, 2026.  (Sayed Hassib/Reuters)

Cross-border airstrikes and clashes person expanded crossed aggregate provinces, with Pakistan targeting what it says are bases of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), a militant radical liable for attacks wrong Pakistan and designated arsenic a violent enactment by the U.S. The Taliban authorities has accused Islamabad of violating Afghanistan’s sovereignty.

At a United Nations briefing Wednesday, a U.N. spokesperson said the struggle has present entered its 3rd week, with wide civilian impact. More than 115,000 radical person been displaced, much than 300 shelters damaged oregon destroyed, and astatine slightest 25 wellness facilities closed oregon disrupted owed to the fighting, according to U.N. humanitarian agencies.

Pakistan has denied targeting a hospital, saying the cognition struck militant infrastructure.

"Since the opening of this counterterrorism campaign, Pakistan has sought to support and support the radical of Pakistan … by targeting terrorists and violent infrastructure that are incubated and nurtured by the Afghan Taliban," Prime Minister’s spokesperson Mosharraf Zaidi told Fox News Digital.

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Red Crescent volunteers transportation a assemblage of a victim, who died successful what the Taliban said was a Pakistani aerial onslaught connected a cause rehabilitation hospital, successful Kabul, Afghanistan, March 17, 2026.  (Sayed Hassib/Reuters)

Zaidi said the onslaught targeted weapons and ammunition astatine Camp Phoenix successful Kabul and insisted, "There are nary civilian hospitals successful Camp Phoenix," adding that reports of a rehabilitation installation being deed whitethorn beryllium owed to "secondary explosions" from stored weapons.

The United Nations connected Wednesday, 2 days aft the attack, condemned the reported strike, with Secretary-General António Guterres, done a spokesperson, "strongly condemning" an airstrike that "reportedly resulted successful the decease (and) wounded of civilians astatine a hospital," and calling for an autarkic investigation.

Still, immoderate analysts accidental the effect does not lucifer the standard of the incident.

"UN officials swiftly condemned U.S. and Israeli strikes connected Iran’s authorities arsenic unlawful ‘aggression’ … Yet Pakistan’s airstrike connected Kabul’s Omid Hospital — sidesplitting implicit 400 civilians — has drawn lone a belated ‘strong condemnation’ … and modular pleas for ‘de-escalation’," Executive Director of UN Watch Hillel Neuer told Fox News Digital.

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Afghan Taliban fighters patrol adjacent the Afghanistan-Pakistan borderline successful Spin Boldak, Kandahar Province, pursuing exchanges of occurrence betwixt Pakistani and Afghan forces. (Reuters/Stringer/File Photo)

"This restrained effect — nary idiosyncratic outrage from Guterres, nary exigency league naming Pakistan, and nary equivalent chorus from UN rapporteurs, oregon agencies similar WHO, UN Women, and UNICEF — reveals fertile hypocrisy," helium said. "When hundreds of susceptible Afghans dice successful a hospital, the UN offers measured words. Yet erstwhile the U.S. oregon Israel tin beryllium blamed — justifiably oregon not — the condemnation is contiguous and overwhelming. When immoderate victims substance acold much than others, the UN reveals its cynical governmental agenda. This treble modular doesn’t uphold quality rights, it erodes them." 

Human rights lawyer Arsen Ostrovsky echoed that disapproval successful a station connected X, calling the onslaught "an implicit massacre," portion noting what helium described arsenic a deficiency of planetary outrage: "World outrage? Zero. Could hardly muster p17 successful the paper here."