Israeli Strike on Gaza Hospital Kills Six in Khan Yunis
Nearly 30 people were wounded at Nasser Hospital, the deadliest single attack since Israel’s elections last month.
Gaza – (Special Correspondent/Web Desk) – An Israeli strike on Gaza hospital Nasser killed six people and wounded nearly 30 others early Thursday, Gaza health officials said. It is the deadliest single strike since Israel’s elections last month.
The hospital is in the southern city of Khan Yunis. Nasser Hospital confirmed the six deaths in a statement.
Civil defence teams said the bodies were pulled from the surgery ward. An AFP journalist at the scene saw a damaged staircase and an entire floor covered in broken concrete and medical equipment.
The Israeli military confirmed the attack. It said it targeted a senior Hamas fighter and other members of Hamas’s armed wing. It claimed they were using the hospital as a command centre.
The military later named Mohammed Abu Ismail, a Hamas commander for the Khan Yunis brigade, as one of those killed.
Hamas denied the claim. It said Israel was telling “a false narrative” to justify its air strikes. Spokesman Hazem Qassem called the attack a war crime and blamed the US-backed Board of Peace for failing to stop it.
Paramedic Ezzedin Abu Sabha said the building was bombed by F-16 jets without warning. He said many patients and doctors were hurt or killed.
A seventh person was shot dead by Israeli forces in central Gaza’s Al-Bureij camp. The Israeli military said it was looking into that death.
The ceasefire began in October 2025 and has calmed much of the fighting. Even so, Israel has kept up regular strikes. More than 1,600 Palestinians have been killed since it started, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health. The United Nations considers its figures reliable.
Israel is now run by a caretaker government under Benjamin Netanyahu after an unclear election result. Opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot has been asked to form a new government.
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