Israel bombs Gaza hospital, killing 6; Scott Colom wins Mississippi’s Senate race; Nvidia CEO resigns

Damage inflicted upon Nasser Medical Hospital by Israeli airstrikes on November 12, 2026, in Gaza City, Gaza. Photo by Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty Images. Thursday, November 12, 2026 – Palestine: Israel kills six people in attack on Nasser Hospital in Gaza. Israel kills one person in attack near entrance of Al-Shifa Hospital. Palestinian infant dies of hypothermia in Khan Younis. Five Palestinian fishermen missing after Israeli navy throws them overboard.

Israeli settlers, soldiers attack Palestinians across occupied West Bank. Israeli Supreme Court denies request to release Gaza doctors detained without charge or trial. Iran: IRGC: Two supertankers on fire in Hormuz. Trump says no need for Iran deal. Iran designates Argentina’s naval and air forces as “terrorist organizations.” Yemen: Ansarallah claims attacks on Saudi coalition. Lebanon: UN: Nearly a quarter of people in Lebanon face acute food shortages.

U.S.: Democrat Scott Colom defeats Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith in Mississippi Senate race. House Republicans derail effort to impeach Hegseth. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang resigns after revelations of affairs with a suspected Chinese spy and a subordinate. Incoming House Intelligence chair vows to scrutinize the CIA’s “extremely aggressive” use of covert actions under Trump. Marco Rubio’s flights to University of Florida football games cost taxpayers more than $1.2 million.

White House counsel threatens criminal investigation of congressional Democrats over planned oversight. U.S. military aircraft leave RAF base for the second time in two months. Trump threatens to double tariffs on Mexico if it does not stop migrant caravan. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent moved out of his home amid alleged Iranian threats. Chicago-area father died after a 38-hour deportation flight to Pakistan. Republicans elect Jim Jordan as House leader, keep John Thune as Senate minority leader.

Senate and House Democrats debate leadership. Federal prosecutors charged former bodyguard for Rep. Ilhan Omar with felony, apparently to obtain incriminating information about her. International: Egyptian court postpones retrial of Mada Masr editor-in-chief to consider judge recusal request. Imran Khan’s political party seeks access to him following hospital visit. Kazakhstan-linked hackers used AI agents to steal national security documents from Tajikistan.

Russia-Ukraine talks in Abu Dhabi conclude with prisoner-exchange agreement. Millions of workers in Spain protest housing crisis in 24-hour strike. China pledges to “firm support” Cuba against U.S. sanctions. Former member of Italian Red Brigades communist group escapes from Argentina house arrest. UN: Kidnappings in Haiti’s capital increased in third quarter of 2026. DRC reports 11,042 Ebola cases, at least 5,387 deaths. UN: In 2026, almost 64,000 people have fled Nigeria for Niger to escape violence.

This is Drop Site Daily, our free news recap We send it Monday – Friday Subscribe Palestine Israel kills six people in attack on Nasser Hospital in Gaza: An Israeli airstrike targeted Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis on Thursday, killing six people, including a doctor and a child, and wounding at least 28 others, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. Over the past 24 hours, Israeli attacks killed eight Palestinians and injured 29 others across Gaza, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.

The total recorded death toll since October 7, 2023, has risen to 74,653 killed and 176,007 injured. Since October 11, 2025, the first full day of the so-called ceasefire, Israel has killed at least 1,622 Palestinians in Gaza and wounded 5,878, while 850 bodies have been recovered. Footage from Drop Site contributor Mohamed Ahmed of Nasser Hospital shows parts of the building badly damaged, and debris covering hospital beds and equipment.

Among the dead is Dr. Rizq Abu Shuaira, a 52-year-old general surgeon who was killed alongside one of his patients, Dr. Ahmed al-Farra, general director of the hospital, said . Nasser Hospital was the last hospital in Gaza that offered specialized surgery, according to Al-Farra, leaving patients in need of such treatment to “face an unknown fate.” Al-Farra said that the hospital was hit without warning by two missiles, one of which did not explode.

The attack “paralyzed” the hospital, he added. A strike hit the main building of the medical complex, and knocked out services in four key departments: surgery, inpatient surgical wards, radiology, and laboratories. Nasser Hospital is one of the few medical facilities in Gaza that is even partially functioning, following years of systematic Israeli attacks. Following the latest strike, the Israeli military has attacked Nasser Hospital seven times since the genocide began, according to Al-Farra.

The Israeli military admitted to the attack, and claimed that the strike was targeting a Hamas commander. In a statement, Hamas called Israel’s claim a “blatant attempt to cover up a new war crime committed against a civilian medical facility protected under international law.” Israel kills one person in attack near entrance of Al-Shifa Hospital: An Israeli airstrike near the gate of Al-Shifa Hospital killed one Palestinian and wounded several others on Thursday, according to Al Jazeera.

One Palestinian was killed by Israeli gunfire east of Bureij camp, in central Gaza, on Thursday. Palestinian infant dies of hypothermia in Khan Younis: A Palestinian infant died of hypothermia in a tent in Al-Mawasi, Khan Younis, in southern Gaza on Thursday, Al Jazeera reported. Clips posted on social media show the body of 9-month-old Raqiq Kanan being carried by his father. “I woke up and found my son as you see him, blue-colored. I brought him to Nasser,” his father said.

“My son died frozen from the cold.” Over the past three winters, numerous Palestinians—mostly infants—have died of hypothermia in Gaza, including 11 children last winter. Five Palestinian fishermen missing after Israeli navy throws them overboard: Five Palestinian fishermen are missing after the Israeli navy interrogated them on a military vessel and then threw them overboard off the coast of Deir al-Balah, in central Gaza, WAFA reported.

Israeli forces opened fire on the fishermen before detaining them and hauling them aboard a military vessel. Israeli settlers, soldiers attack Palestinians across occupied West Bank: Israeli settlers and soldiers carried out a series of raids and arrests across the occupied West Bank on Thursday, WAFA reported. Israeli settlers set fire to more than 100 vehicles, dozens of olive trees, and a warehouse in Al-Lubban Asharqiya, south of Nablus.

Israeli forces arrested several Palestinians, searched homes, and damaged property in raids in Hebron, Jenin, Nablus, and Qalqilya. Israeli forces demolished a Palestinian home in Al-Khader, south of Bethlehem. Israeli Supreme Court denies request to release Gaza doctors detained without charge or trial: Israel’s Supreme Court refused to order the release of 14 Gaza doctors, including hospital directors and specialists, who are being detained without charge or trial under Israel’s Unlawful Combatants Law.

Some of the doctors have been in Israeli detention for more than two years. The advocacy group Physicians for Human Rights Israel had asked the court to direct the military’s chief of staff to revoke their detention orders, citing the ceasefire and Gaza’s collapsed health system. The court said it had reviewed the cases in light of Gaza’s severe shortage of doctors but found no “exceptional grounds” to free them, and the court declined to intervene.

Iran Two supertankers on fire in Hormuz, IRGC says: Two supertankers were hit by naval mines while traveling in what the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said was an unauthorized route in the Strait of Hormuz. The tankers were carrying a combined total of more than four million barrels of oil. The IRGC said that any vessel in the strait “will meet a similar fate” if it switches off its navigation systems and cooperates with the U.S. military to use the strait’s southern route.

Trump says no need for Iran deal: President Donald Trump said on Thursday that the U.S. does not “need a deal with Iran.” “Those days have long since passed,” he wrote on Truth Social. “We’ve got their money, Hundreds of Billions of Dollars, and we’ve got their Strait!” Commenting on Vice President JD Vance, Trump said, “I have asked Vice President Vance to focus his complete and total attention on the Massive Corruption and Crime taking place in Democrat run Cities and States throughout the U.S.”

The Wall Street Journal previously reported that Vance was considering face-to-face talks with Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Secretary Mohsen Rezaei in an effort to end the war. On Wednesday, Rezai denied reports that Iran was negotiating directly with the U.S., calling reports of talks in Qatar and a planned meeting with Vice President JD Vance “lies” meant to ease economic pressure and lower oil prices. Rezaei said that Iran rejected Washington’s first response to its seven conditions for peace as “not sufficient,” saying it contained “deception.”

Iran is now waiting for “a clear and explicit response.” Iran designates Argentina’s naval and air forces as “terrorist organizations” : Iran’s Foreign Ministry designated Argentina’s naval and air forces as “terrorist organizations” on Wednesday, noting Argentina’s March similar designation of the IRGC in March and “the principle of reciprocity.” It did not mention Argentina’s army in its announcement. Argentina’s foreign ministry rejected the move as “completely baseless” and “unacceptable.”

President Javier Milei’s office designated the IRGC a “terrorist organization” on March 31, citing the 1994 AMIA Jewish community center bombing in Buenos Aires, which Argentina blames on Hezbollah. Yemen Ansarallah claims attacks on Saudi coalition: Ansarallah claimed several attacks on the Saudi-led coalition on Wednesday, including strikes on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, an oil pumping station in Yanbu, and a Saudi military command center in Aden’s al-Buraiqa district.

The Saudi-led coalition said that it intercepted three cruise missiles heading towards Riyadh, and two drones and two ballistic missiles over western Saudi Arabia. Lebanon Nearly a quarter of people in Lebanon face acute food shortages, UN says: More than a million people, or a quarter of Lebanon’s population, faces food shortages as a result of two consecutive conflicts in the country, the UN warned on Wednesday. The FAO, World Food Programme and Lebanon’s Agriculture Ministry said that the number is expected to rise to 1.15 million by mid-next year.

WFP country director Allison Oman Lawi said families are running out of options, noting that “even a small additional shock can push them deeper into crisis.” Lebanon estimates that conflicts since 2024 have cost it $27 billion. The conflict between Israel and Lebanon that escalated again in March has displaced over a million people, about 300,000 of whom remain displaced since violence subsided in June. Israeli troops still illegally occupy land in the country’s south, exacerbating the ongoing displacement crisis.

U.S. News Democrat Scott Colom defeats Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith in Mississippi Senate race: Democrat Scott Colom defeated incumbent GOP Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith , according to the Associated Press, which called the race Wednesday after officials spent days processing absentee and affidavit ballots. Hyde-Smith conceded in a two-minute video, saying, “I respect the decision of Mississippi voters.” Colom, 43, a local prosecutor and son of a onetime Reagan aide, is the first Democrat Mississippi has chosen for the Senate since 1947 and will be the state’s first Black senator since Reconstruction.

Trump won the state by 23 points in 2024. House Republicans derail effort to impeach Hegseth: The House voted 211 to 204 to recommend charges against War Secretary Pete Hegseth to a committee, with only Rep. Thomas Massie, who led the effort, joining Democrats against the motion, which lets Republicans slow the process indefinitely. Eleven Democrats and seven Republicans missed the vote. Hegseth faced eight charges that could lead to impeachment, including waging war in Iran and elsewhere without congressional authorization, flouting laws to mitigate civilian casualties, and retaliating against a senator for public statements.

Trump called the outcome an “exoneration” while warning that Democrats “must be stopped.” Democrats could still move to impeach Hegseth next year, when they assume majorities in both chambers. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang resigns after revelations of affairs with a suspected Chinese spy and a subordinate: Jensen Huang, Nvidia’s CEO and co-founder, resigned on Thursday morning, according to the company’s board of directors. His exit followed reporting from the New York Times that Huang had affairs with a suspected Chinese spy and a subordinate at