Israel kills 10 in Gaza, including six in hospital strike

An Israeli airstrike on southern Gaza's main hospital overnight killed at least six Palestinians, including a ⁠surgeon and a teenage boy, medics said, the latest Israeli attack to undermine a year-old ceasefire in the territory.

The strike hit a building containing surgery wards at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis.

Israel's military said it targeted a senior Hamas commander and accused the militants of using the hospital complex to plan attacks, which the group denied.

Medics and witnesses said two missiles came through the roof of the five-storey building, causing extensive damage and injuring 20 people.

The surgery department, which serves half of Gaza's 2 two million people, was knocked out of service.

Ayman Abu Obeid, a doctor who was injured in the attack, said he was on an overnight shift in the hospital when an explosion ripped through the room where he and others were sleeping.

"All of a sudden the world turned upside down. It went ‌dark all at once," he said from a hospital ⁠bed.

Near him, piles of furniture and medical equipment could be seen covered in dust from blown-out concrete.

Torn wires hung down from the ceiling.

Among those killed was Rezik Abushira, a surgeon who was featured in a 2026 documentary American Doctor, working alongside three visiting US doctors who help provide medical care for Palestinians in Gaza.

The dead also included a 13-year-old boy, according to Gaza's education ministry.

Four more Palestinians killed by Israeli forces

Four more Palestinians were killed later today in separate incidents.

Two were killed and several wounded in an Israeli airstrike on a car in Gaza City, and one other person was killed by Israeli gunfire in central Gaza's Bureij refugee camp, medics said, taking today's death toll to at least ten.

The fourth person was killed in an airstrike near a cemetery in Jabalia, north of the enclave.

Commenting on the vehicle strike, the Israeli military said it hit a Hamas militant without giving further details. It did not comment on the two other incidents.

In ‌a statement on the hospital strike, Israel's military said it targeted a person named Muhammad Abu Ismail, describing him as "the ⁠commander of Hamas' ‌Khan Younis Brigade".

The Israeli military said he and other militants "were hiding inside the Nasser Hospital".

The Israeli military accused the militants of "turning the Nasser Hospital compound into a headquarters and operating from there".

Hamas rejected the military's claim that it had used the hospital as a base for operations.

It did not immediately provide comment on whether a leader from the group had been targeted, ⁠injured or killed in the strike.

Since the start of the Gaza war, Israel's military has struck the Nasser Hospital complex at least seven times, hospital officials say.

In ⁠August 2025, the hospital was hit by a double-tap Israeli attack that killed at least 20 people, including journalists and health workers.

Hospitals are protected sites under international law.

Both attacking hospitals and their use for military purposes are typically considered breaches of the law.

Although medical facilities can lose their protected status under certain conditions, rights groups say Israel has not shown sufficient evidence in many cases to justify its attacks on them during the war.

An October 2025 ceasefire halted major fighting but has failed to halt Israeli attacks or secure Hamas' disarmament.

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

During the same period, the Israeli military has reported the loss of seven soldiers, as well as one civilian contractor.

Infant dies of hypothermia in Gaza

A nine-month-old baby died of hypothermia today, his father and a doctor told AFP, after days of harsh weather and flooding in the Gaza Strip that displaced thousands of Palestinians living in tents.

The doctor, who saw the child and spoke on condition of anonymity, said that nine-month-old Kinan Ahmed Raqiq "died from hypothermia inside his family's displacement tent" in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip.

Ahmed Raqiq, told AFP that his son Kinan died of cold during the night in their tent in southern Gaza.

"I woke up only to see his skin had turned blue so I rushed him to Nasser hospital, but he had already died from hypothermia and frozen to death," he said, outside the hospital, as he held his son wrapped in a white sheet.

Heavy rain last week flooded tens of thousands of people's tents in Gaza, where virtually the whole population has been displaced at least once by three years of Israeli strikes in response to the 7 October, 2023 attack by Hamas.

Five people including three children died the day after the flooding when a sandy embankment collapsed onto their tents.

Since then, hundreds of displaced families have been seen fleeing camps in parts of Gaza City and central and northern areas of the territory after they were inundated by rainwater.