Israeli strike on Gaza hospital deadliest since election

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An Israeli strike killed six people and wounded nearly 30 more in southern Gaza's Nasser hospital early Thursday, Gaza health officials said, the deadli ...

An Israeli strike killed six people and wounded nearly 30 more in southern Gaza's Nasser hospital early Thursday, Gaza health officials said, the deadliest single strike since Israel's elections last month.

The Israeli military confirmed the attack, saying it targeted "a senior Hamas terrorist and additional terrorists from Hamas's military wing" it said were operating from the 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 confirmed the six deaths in a statement.

Gaza's civil defence agency said the bodies from the strike had been recovered from the targeted building, which according to a medical source was the surgery ward of Nasser Hospital, a sprawling medical complex in the southern city of Khan Yunis.

A seventh person was killed by Israeli fire in central Gaza's Al-Bureij camp Thursday, Bassal said.Nearby Al-Aqsa hospital confirmed receiving the body and said the man was shot dead by Israeli forces.

Israel's military said it was looking into the death.Israel is currently governed by a caretaker government under Benjamin Netanyahu following an inconclusive election, with opposition bloc head Gadi Eisenkot officially tasked with forming a new administration.

Netanyahu, who has held power on-and-off for nearly 20 years and has led Israel throughout the war in Gaza, has played up security threats to the country throughout the election period and called for a unity government.'Without prior warning' An AFP journalist at the scene of the hospital strike reported that one of the building's exterior staircases had partially collapsed and that indoors, an entire floor was damaged, with broken concrete from collapsed walls mixed with broken medical equipment.

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