And how many children's' hospitals were left standing in Hamburg after the firestorm raid?
How many children's' hospitals were left standing in Berlin in May 1945?
How many children's hospitals were left standing after we pulverised Dresden? i
It is only a war crime if the prosecution can prove that the hospital was a briefed target and the attack deliberate and pre planned, not just incompetence on the part of planners or crews.
It is a defence to prove that you had credible intelligence or what you recently believed to be credible intelligence, that combat troops, including partisans, freedom fighters, guerrillos call them what you will, were being treated and returned to the frontline That includes 13 year old Girl Scout messengers having a gash on her arm bandaged up.
If you're going to fight a war, fight the damn thing, don't pussyfoot around.
As I've said before in these columns, innocent civilians, even if they include women and children, became extinct at Guernica.
I don't remember world outrage when the IRA executed a 6 month old baby with a single shot to the head at Wildenrath in Germany in 1989.