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MapIsraeli Airstrike Hits Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, Killing Six Including Surgeon
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Six killed at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, including a surgeon and a 13-year-old. Strike hit the hospital's surgery complex; casualties include medical staff and patients.
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Nasser Hospital hit
An Israeli airstrike hit Gaza’s Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, killing six people including surgeon Rizq Abu Shaira and a 13-year-old boy, according to Gaza’s Ministry of Health. The hospital director, Ahmed al-Fara, said two missiles hit the Al Yasin surgical building, where operating rooms and intensive care units operate, and that one missile did not explode.
The Israeli army and Shin Bet said the target was Muhammad Abu Ismail, commander of Hamas’ Jan Yunis Brigade, and other group members they claimed were inside the complex, while Hamas called the Israeli version false and the attack a war crime. Dr Ayman Abu Ubaid, a surgical specialist at Nasser medical complex, said the bombing happened at about 12.30am without warning and described “thick smoke to fill the rooms and fires to break out” as wounded people groaned and people screamed.
Warnings, rubble, and testimonies
Dr Mohammed Qdeih told the BBC that he and other medical staff had just finished work around 00:30 and had been preparing to go to sleep when there was an explosion, and he said, “My whole body was trapped under the rubble.”
The BBC reported that the hospital director, Dr Ahmed al-Fara, later told a news conference that Israeli forces fired two missiles at the al-Yasin surgery building but that only one exploded, and he said, “What's happened in Nasser Medical Complex is targeting the health sector mainly.”
The Israeli military said it issued advance warnings before the strike and released an audio recording of what it said was one given to a senior Gaza health official, while Fara insisted the hospital had received no warning of an attack.
A Gaza Civil Defense spokesman, Ezz Eddine Abu Sabha, said the strike tore through part of the hospital and killed Dr. Rizk Abu Shaira and a 13-year-old boy, and he said the attack left charred debris scattered across the destroyed unit.
Ceasefire, legal stakes
The attack occurred during a ceasefire in effect since October 10, 2025, and the local Health Ministry said more than 1,620 people have died in Gaza since then, while Israel reported the deaths of six of its soldiers in that period. The UN special coordinator for the Middle East peace process, Ramiz Alakbarov, said he was deeply alarmed and reminded that under international humanitarian law hospitals cannot be attacked or used for military purposes, while WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Gaza’s health facilities must be protected and never militarized or attacked.
The Fourth Geneva Convention states that civilian hospitals cannot be attacked and that their protection only ends if they are used to commit acts harmful to the enemy, and the point of contention between the Army and the hospital leadership centered on whether an effective warning was given. The Guardian said Nasser hospital is one of the last functioning healthcare facilities in Gaza and that services were suspended in four departments, radiology, laboratories, surgical operations and inpatient surgical wards, after the strike destroyed part of the surgery department and caused extensive damage.