Gaza: six dead and at least 20 injured in Israeli strike in Khan Younes

Emergency services in the Gaza Strip said an Israeli strike on the Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis, a town in the south of the Palestinian territory, left six people dead and at least 20 injured. “The death toll from the Israeli strike inside the Nasser medical complex (...) rose to six dead,” Civil Defense spokesperson Mahmoud Bassal told AFP, adding that more than 20 people had been injured.

Contacted by AFP to react to the claims of this first aid organization operating under the authority of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, the Israeli army indicated that it was in the process of verifying. On Tuesday, seven people were killed by Israeli strikes in the Gaza Strip, according to Civil Defense, with the Israeli army claiming to have targeted “military” targets.

Israel and Hamas accuse each other of violating the ceasefire which came into force on October 10, 2025 after two years of war, triggered by the attack of unprecedented scale by Hamas on Israeli soil on October 7, 2023.