Israeli strike near Gaza City’s Al-Shifa Hospital kills one, hours after deadly attack on Nasser Hospital

Israeli strike near Gaza City’s Al-Shifa Hospital kills one, hours after deadly attack on Nasser Hospital

GAZA CITY: One Palestinian was killed and others were injured when Israeli warplanes struck a vehicle near the entrance gate of Al-Shifa Hospital in western Gaza City on Thursday, the Palestinian news agency WAFA reported.

Earlier on Thursday, an Israeli strike killed six people and wounded around 20 at Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza, a civil defense official told AFP.

The Gaza Strip’s civil defense, a rescue agency operating under Hamas authority, said the bodies of those killed and “more than” 20 people wounded in the strike had been recovered from a building at the 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 defense spokesperson Mahmoud Bassal told AFP.

Nasser Hospital confirmed the six deaths in a statement.

A spokesperson for Israel’s military said they were checking for information on the incident when asked for comment by AFP.

Israel and Hamas have accused each other of violating the ceasefire that came into effect in October 2025, after two years of war triggered by an attack of unprecedented scale carried out by the Palestinian Islamist movement against Israel on October 7, 2023.

On Tuesday, Israeli forces killed seven people, including a 13-year-old boy, in the Gaza Strip, according to local emergency services, while the…

In brief

GAZA CITY: One Palestinian was killed and others were injured when Israeli warplanes struck a vehicle near the entrance gate of Al-Shifa Hospital in western Gaza City on Thursday, the Palestinian news agency WAFA reported. Earlier on Thursday, an Israeli strike killed six people and wounded around 20 at Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza, a civil defense official told AFP.

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