Six people were killed in an Israeli raid targeting Nasser Hospital in the southern Gaza Strip

At least six people were killed and 20 others were injured, Thursday morning, as a result of an Israeli air strike that targeted a building in Nasser Hospital in the city of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, according to an official in the civil defense apparatus run by the Hamas movement.

Civil Defense spokesman, Mahmoud Basal, told Agence France-Presse that the raid targeted the hospital’s surgery department and caused extensive damage to the building, noting that among the dead was a surgeon.

There was no immediate comment from the Israeli army regarding the raid, while the BBC said that it had contacted the army to obtain a comment.

The BBC was unable to cover independently from inside the Gaza Strip due to Israel preventing the entry of its journalists, and therefore was unable to independently verify the details of the incident.

Nasser Hospital is the largest hospital in the southern Gaza Strip, and it was subjected to two Israeli raids in August 2025, which resulted in the killing of at least 20 people, including journalists and health sector workers.

Israeli raids on the Gaza Strip continue despite the ceasefire agreement that entered into force last October. The Gaza Ministry of Health says more than 1,600 people have been killed since then, figures the United Nations considers reliable.

This coincides with the worsening humanitarian crisis in the Strip due to heavy rains, which, according to reports, caused tens of thousands of displaced persons’ tents to be flooded with water.

The war began in the Gaza Strip after an attack launched by Hamas on southern Israel on October 7, 2023, resulting in the killing of about 1,200 people and the detention of 251 others. The Gaza Ministry of Health says more than 74,645 Palestinians have been killed since then.

Yesterday, Wednesday, a number of Palestinians were killed and others were injured as a result of air strikes, artillery shelling, and gunfire from Israeli forces in various areas of the Gaza Strip, according to medical and local sources.

The sources reported that the young man, Hani Al-Khudari, was killed and others were injured, after an Israeli drone targeted him while he was filling water on the roof of his family’s house in the vicinity of the Italian compound, west of Gaza City.

The two brothers, Mahmoud and Jamil Al-Absi, were also killed, and others were injured, as a result of the bombing of a tent on Al-Jalaa Street in Gaza City, while Muhammad Nabil Abdel-Latif Muqbel (30 years old) died from wounds he sustained in the same bombing.

In another raid, it targeted a tent housing displaced people in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, north of the city. Two Palestinians were killed and others were injured.

In the northern Gaza Strip, a Palestinian was injured by Israeli forces’ bullets in the Al-Sudaniyah area, which was also subjected to artillery shelling, while an air strike targeted an empty land near the Yassin station in the Al-Saftawi area, without any casualties being reported.