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Gaza Hospital Strike Kills 6, Wounds 20 in Khan YounisWorld
A strike on Nasser Hospital’s surgery ward in Khan Younis killed six people, including a surgeon, and wounded more than 20, Gaza’s Civil Defence said.
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An early-morning strike hit the surgery department of Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis on Thursday, killing at least six people and wounding more than 20, according to Gaza’s Civil Defence agency. The blast struck the largest hospital still operating in the southern Gaza Strip, wrecking wards that were treating patients and sheltering families who had fled their homes.
The strike hit the second floor of the Al-Yasin building inside the Nasser Medical Complex, in the western part of Khan Younis, the Civil Defence said. Its spokesman, Mahmoud Basal, told the AFP news agency that the bodies of those killed and more than 20 wounded people had been recovered from the building. Nasser Hospital confirmed the six deaths in a statement of its own.
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Medics identified one of the dead as Rezik Abushira, a surgeon at the hospital. The hospital’s director said the explosion caused extensive damage to the intensive care and surgical wards. Early reports during the night had put the death toll at four, before rescue teams revised the figure upwards to six.
Israel’s military has not confirmed that it carried out the strike or said what it was targeting. A military spokesperson told AFP that it was checking for information about the incident when asked for comment.
The attack comes thirteen months into a ceasefire that took effect on 10 October 2025, after two years of war. Israel and Hamas have accused each other of violating the truce, and deadly incidents have continued despite it. On Tuesday, Israeli forces killed seven people in the Gaza Strip, including a 13-year-old boy, according to local emergency services, while the Israeli military said it had targeted what it described as military operatives.
More than 1,590 Palestinians have been killed since the start of the ceasefire, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health, whose figures are considered reliable by the United Nations. During the same period, the Israeli military has reported the loss of seven soldiers and one civilian contractor.
Nasser Hospital is the main medical facility in southern Gaza and one of the last major hospitals still operating in the area. It has been hit before: a double Israeli strike on the hospital in August 2025 killed at least 20 people, including journalists and health workers, according to the BBC.
The casualty figures from Thursday’s strike come from Gaza’s Civil Defence, a rescue agency operating under the Hamas-run administration in Gaza, and from the hospital itself. They have not been independently verified, and rescue teams were still working at the site as the death toll was confirmed.
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