Six Dead After Israeli Airstrike Hits Hospital in Gaza

A strike on a major hospital complex in southern Gaza has left six people dead and scores hurt, according to local rescue officials, sharpening tensions as Israel and Hamas trade accusations of violating a ceasefire meant to halt two years of war.

Gaza’s civil defence, a rescue agency operating under Hamas authority, said the bodies of those killed and “more than” 20 people wounded were pulled from a building inside the Nasser Medical Complex.

“The death toll from the Israeli strike inside Nasser Medical Complex, west of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, has risen to six,” civil defence spokesperson Mahmoud Bassal said.

Nasser Hospital confirmed in a statement that six people had been killed.

Asked to respond, a spokesperson for Israel’s military said information about the incident was being checked.

The latest deaths come amid growing friction over the ceasefire that took effect in October 2025. Israel and Hamas have each accused the other of breaking the truce, which followed two years of conflict ignited by an attack of unprecedented scale carried out by Hamas against Israel on 7 October 2023.

On Tuesday, local emergency services reported that Israeli forces killed seven people in the Gaza Strip, including a 13-year-old boy. The Israeli military, for its part, said its forces had targeted “military operatives”.

More than 1,590 Palestinians have been killed since the ceasefire began, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health, which operates under Hamas authority and whose figures are considered reliable by the UN.

Over the same period, the Israeli military has reported seven soldiers killed, along with one civilian contractor.