Afghanistan accuses Pakistan of killing hundreds in Kabul hospital strike

A reported airstrike connected a hospital successful Afghanistan that allegedly near hundreds dormant is drafting increasing scrutiny, not only complete nan onslaught itself but complete what critics picture arsenic a muted world response.

Afghanistan’s Taliban-led authorities said much than 400 group were killed and hundreds were wounded aft a onslaught deed nan Omid Hospital, a awesome supplier 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 quickly escalating military run betwixt Pakistan and Afghanistan that has intensified complete nan past 3 weeks.

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The tract of a supplier rehabilitation infirmary that was destroyed successful what nan 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, pinch Pakistan targeting what it says are bases of nan Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), a militant group responsible for attacks wrong Pakistan and designated arsenic a violent statement by nan U.S. The Taliban authorities has accused Islamabad of violating Afghanistan’s sovereignty.

At a United Nations briefing Wednesday, a U.N. spokesperson said nan conflict has now entered its 3rd week, pinch wide civilian impact. More than 115,000 group person been displaced, much than 300 shelters damaged aliases destroyed, and astatine slightest 25 wellness accommodation closed aliases disrupted owed to nan fighting, according to U.N. humanitarian agencies.

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

"Since nan opening of this counterterrorism campaign, Pakistan has sought to take sides and protect nan group of Pakistan … by targeting terrorists and violent infrastructure that are incubated and nurtured by nan 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 nan Taliban said was a Pakistani aerial onslaught connected a supplier rehabilitation hospital, successful Kabul, Afghanistan, March 17, 2026.  (Sayed Hassib/Reuters)

Zaidi said nan 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 nan attack, condemned nan reported strike, pinch Secretary-General António Guterres, done a spokesperson, "strongly condemning" an airstrike that "reportedly resulted successful nan decease (and) wounded of civilians astatine a hospital," and calling for an independent investigation.

Still, immoderate analysts opportunity nan consequence does not lucifer the standard of nan incident.

"UN officials swiftly condemned U.S. and Israeli strikes connected Iran’s regime arsenic unlawful ‘aggression’ … Yet Pakistan’s airstrike connected Kabul’s Omid Hospital — sidesplitting complete 400 civilians — has drawn only 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 nan Afghanistan-Pakistan separator successful Spin Boldak, Kandahar Province, pursuing exchanges of occurrence betwixt Pakistani and Afghan forces. (Reuters/Stringer/File Photo)

"This restrained consequence — nary individual outrage from Guterres, nary emergency convention naming Pakistan, and nary balanced chorus from UN rapporteurs, aliases agencies for illustration WHO, UN Women, and UNICEF — reveals rank hypocrisy," he said. "When hundreds of susceptible Afghans dice successful a hospital, nan UN offers measured words. Yet erstwhile nan U.S. aliases Israel tin beryllium blamed — justifiably aliases not — nan condemnation is contiguous and overwhelming. When immoderate victims matter acold much than others, nan UN reveals its cynical governmental agenda. This double modular doesn’t uphold quality rights, it erodes them." 

Human authorities lawyer Arsen Ostrovsky echoed that disapproval successful a station connected X, calling nan onslaught "an absolute massacre," while noting what he described arsenic a deficiency of world outrage: "World outrage? Zero. Could hardly muster p17 successful nan newspaper here."