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At least six Palestinians have been killed and more than 20 others injured in an Israeli airstrike on Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, in the Gaza Strip. Patients and medical staff were among the casualties.
Al Jazeera correspondent Hind Khoudary, reporting from Gaza, said Civil Defence teams had completed search and rescue operations following the Israeli airstrike on the hospital. According to the teams, six people were killed inside the medical complex and more than 20 others were injured.
The strike hit the hospital’s second floor. Nasser Medical Complex is one of the largest hospitals in Gaza and the only hospital still operating in Khan Younis. At least 500,000 people in southern Gaza depend on the facility for medical services.
Most of those killed and injured were patients receiving treatment at the hospital. Some were scheduled to undergo surgery the following day. Having waited for days to receive medical care, they had been sleeping inside the hospital when the strike hit.
Local residents and eyewitnesses said the explosion occurred suddenly. They said Israeli forces had issued no prior warning before the attack and had given no order to evacuate the hospital.
The hospital has now been attacked seven times over the past few years. In the previous major incident, on August 25, 2025, two successive Israeli bombing raids on the facility killed at least 22 Palestinians, including five journalists. Source: Al Jazeera.
