TURKEY was accused of war crimes today after the names of eight people killed in a missile attack on a hospital in northern Iraq’s Shengal region were released.

Four health workers died in Tuesday’s drone attack on the medical facility in the village of al-Sakina, south of Mount Sinjar in Nineveh province.

Turkish jets targeted all vehicles attempting to reach the hospital as well as those seeking to leave.

“The warplanes targeted everyone who tried to evacuate the wounded from the hospital,” a security official said.

The dead were named yesterday as health workers Eli Resho Xidir, Sedo Ilyas Resho, Heci Xidi and Muhlise Sidar, along with Shengal Resistance Unit (YBS) fighters Hemid Sadun, Xidir Onur, Rami al-Salim and Meytem Xidir Xelef, who were defending the area.

The air assault came a day after Turkish missiles struck a busy marketplace in Shengal during lunchtime trading, killing YBS commander Seid Hesen.

It has since transpired that the Yazidi militia leader was on his way to meet Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Khadimi, the first time one of the country’s leaders has been to the region since the 1980s.

He is visiting local Yazidi institutions in Shengal, which has a system of self-governance.

“The fact that the attack was carried out on such a day reveals the aims of the enemies and invaders,” the Shengal autonomous administration said in a statement yesterday.

Local officials said that they would “no longer tolerate the killing of our people” and warned that the Yazidis would bring “the enemies and murderers to account.”

Turkey launched operations across northern Iraq and its semi-autonomous Kurdish region on April 23.

Air strikes have been accompanied by a ground invasion supposedly targeting the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).

But Turkey has been accused of war crimes, including the use of chemical weapons and driving more than 1,500 Kurdish villagers from their homes.

Baghdad has warned Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan against his expansionist agenda, alleging that Ankara seeks to seize control of the oil -rich north-western city of Mosul.

Iraqi parliamentarian Abdul-Khaleq al-Azzawi said that the latest Turkish invasion could pave the way for regional and global interventions in the country’s affairs.

“The Turkish incursion into northern Iraq, whatever the motive, remains a source of concern and is deemed an unacceptable interference affecting national sovereignty,” he said in a statement on Saturday.

“Unless the government and the Foreign Ministry act firmly to stop foreign interference, the country could face serious repercussions for everything, including the security situation.”