Israeli strike on Gaza hospital deadliest since election

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Israeli fire killed 11 people in Gaza on Thursday, six of whom died in the bombing of Nasser hospital in south Gaza early in the day, health officials said, the deadliest single…

Hospital staff and others inspect the damage inside Nasser Hospital following an Israeli airstrike in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on November 12, 2026. Photo / Eyad Baba, AFP

Israeli fire killed 11 people in Gaza on Thursday, six of whom died in the bombing of Nasser hospital in south Gaza early in the day, health officials said, the deadliest single strike since Israel’s elections last month.

The Israeli military confirmed the attack on the medical complex, saying they targeted “the commander of Hamas’ Khan Yunis brigade, Muhammad Abu Ismail, and additional terrorists hiding inside of Nasser Hospital”, which it has long accused the Palestinian Islamist movement of using to shelter militants.

Hamas has denied this, and both parties frequently accuse each other of violating the terms of a US-backed ceasefire agreement that took effect in October 2025.

Nasser Hospital, located in Khan Yunis, confirmed the six deaths in a statement, while a doctor there said that nearly 30 people were wounded.

Goher Rahbour, a British surgeon volunteering at the hospital, told AFP that a Palestinian doctor with whom he had conducted a surgery on Wednesday evening was among those killed in the strike.

“I was on my phone just doing a bit of reading and the strike occurred just after midnight. It was very loud, very quick. The building shook, there was a lot of smoke that came up,” Rahbour told AFP.

The army said that Abu Ismail was “responsible for directing terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians and IDF troops and for holding numerous hostages captive throughout the war” and that Hamas used the hospital as a command-and-control centre, to store weapons and conduct “interrogations and torture”.

Hamas, in a statement, denied using the hospital for military purposes, saying Israel put forward “a false narrative” to justify airstrikes.

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