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During the evening of Sunday, March 1, 2026, two young children were reported killed and a member of the hospital staff was injured by a declared Israeli airstrike against the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting which caused damage to nearby Gandhi Hospital in Tehran, Iran. The names of the victims were not found among local sources.
On the evening of the strike, Christiaan Triebert (@trbrtc) of The New York Times Visual Investigations Unit reported “multiple videos show damage at the Gandhi Hospital in northern Tehran, as well as to adjacent residential buildings. Iranian state media Press TV said the IRIB headquarters, across the street, were targeted by U.S./Israeli strikes, suggesting the medical facility was likely damaged by the impact of those strikes.” @trbrtc later reposted a tweet with videos and images from @HKermanpour, representing the Iranian Ministry of health, which included graphic images of two deceased children, as well as videos showing injured people but it is unclear if they were injured during the strike or being evacuated from the hospital. @trbrtc tweeted alongside this that “at least two young children were killed in the strike (likely on the state broadcaster across the street) that heavily damaged the Gandhi Hospital, per the spokesperson for Iran’s health ministry.” The next morning, @BBCPersian reported that “last night, Gandhi Hospital was significantly damaged in airstrikes.”
On March 2, the IDF announced via its Persian-language Twitter/X account (@IDFFarsi) that “the Israeli army targeted the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting Complex, the beating heart of the Revolutionary Guard Corps’ machine of lies and repression.” Numerous sources described this attack on the broadcasting complex as the one responsible for the destruction of the Gandhi hospital across the street.” On March 6, the BBC reported that “the IDF acknowledged there was “minor damage” to the hospital resulting from a strike on a nearby “military facility.”
The strike reportedly damaged the hospital, Channel 2 of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), the transmission tower of the Alvand Television Station, and at least two residential buildings in the surrounding area. BBC Persian reported that the buildings were struck at around 7:20 p.m.
The head of the Iranian Red Crescent Society noted that the hospital had 250 beds and was usually always full. Rescue teams arrived within an hour to transfer the injured, as well as existing patients, to other facilities. Sources also reported that nurses were transporting newborn babies and embryo tanks when missiles were fired at the area. Dr. Bani Assad, the hospital’s director, said, “We had fetuses, newborns, eight patients in ICU, thank [the] lord without any harm to them, we transferred them to other hospitals. One of the personnel suffered a concussion which [required] surgery.”
Photos from the incident show piles of rubble at the hospital’s main gate, collapsed interior walls, and patient rooms strewn with glass and debris. Videos showed elderly patients lying on the floor covered in blankets, waiting to be evacuated. One civilian filming the scene said, “This is the situation of Gandhi Hospital. They hit the hospital with all children and elderly patients.”
According to the BBC, “Mohammad Raeiszadeh, the head of Iran’s Medical Council, told state media that the hospital’s in-vitro (IVF) fertilisation department was destroyed by the strike.” However, a video shared to Twitter/X by @abdolah_abdi quoted Dr. Bani Assad, head of Gandhi Hospital, saying, “We had a large number of embryos in the infertility department. Last night, IVF specialists immediately arrived and removed the embryo tanks. I would like to inform the parents whose embryos we are holding that they should not worry, the embryos have been transferred.”
Maryam Ali Babaei also described the aftermath of the strike: “When I leave the clinic, I see people who are desperately taking out packages of medicine. The hospital pharmacy has also been destroyed; the shelves and medical equipment are all under the rubble and those medicines that were still safe are now being moved, maybe to save other lives that still need help.” A medical assistant at the Iran University of Medical Sciences stated that the hospital was completely destroyed and is now out of service.
Damage extended beyond the hospital to residential buildings. In a March 5 article titled ‘At least 13 hospitals and health facilities hit during attacks on Iran, WHO says,’ The Guardian published a photo of a room littered with shattered glass and debris taken “inside the Gandhi hotel hospital, which was damaged on 1 March when a projectile struck a state TV communications tower and nearby buildings across the street.” A video by @yalesarat72313 on X showed significant damage to the surrounding buildings, with the creator saying, “It’s not just the hospital, all the houses around were damaged.”
CNN analyzed satellite footage after the strike and found a 40 foot crater next to the IRIB headquarters, adding that it was “likely” caused by a 2,000 pound bomb, which are used by both the U.S. and Israel and have a lethal radius of about 1,000 feet. The Gandhi Hospital is only 100 feet away from the IRIB building, which suffered shattered windows and collapsed walls from the attack.
Geolocation Notes
Reports of the incident mention Gandhi hospital (بیمارستان گاندی), Tehran (تهران). Analysing audio-visual material from sources, we have narrowed the location down to the following exact coordinates: 35.745010, 51.412034.

Date taken: July 8, 2025
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Panoramic stitch from audio-visual material
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