Israeli strike on Gaza hospital kills six, including surgeon and child

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An Israeli airstrike on southern Gaza's main hospital overnight killed at least six Palestinians including a surgeon and a 13-year-old boy.

CAIRO — An Israeli airstrike on southern Gaza's main hospital overnight killed at least six Palestinians including a surgeon and a teenage boy, medics said, the latest Israeli attack to undermine a year-old ceasefire in the war-shattered territory.

The strike hit a building containing surgery wards at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis. Israel's military said it targeted a senior Hamas commander and accused the militants of using the hospital complex to plan attacks, which the group denied.

Medics and witnesses said two missiles crashed through the roof of the five-storey building, causing extensive damage. The surgery department, which serves half of Gaza's 2 million people, was knocked out of service. Twenty others were wounded.

Ayman Abu Obeid, a doctor who was injured in the attack, said he was on an overnight shift in the hospital when an explosion ripped through the room where he and others were sleeping.

"All of a sudden the world turned upside down. It went dark all at once," he said from a hospital bed. Near him, piles of mangled furniture and medical equipment could be seen covered in dust from blown-out concrete. Torn wires hung down from the ceiling.

Among those killed was Rezik Abushira, a surgeon who was featured in a 2026 documentary, "American Doctor," working alongside three visiting US doctors who help provide medical care for Palestinians in Gaza. The dead also included a 13-year-old boy, according to Gaza's education ministry.

Four more Palestinians were killed later on Thursday in separate incidents. Two were killed and several wounded in an Israeli airstrike on a car in Gaza City, and one other person was killed by Israeli gunfire in central Gaza's Bureij refugee camp, medics said, taking Thursday's death toll to at least ten.

The fourth person was killed in an airstrike near a cemetery in Jabalia, north of the enclave.

Commenting on the vehicle strike, the Israeli military said it hit a Hamas militant without giving further details.

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