At least 200 people were killed Tuesday evening in an Israeli strike on a hospital compound in Gaza City, the Hamas-controlled Palestinian territory’s health ministry reported.
In a press release, he reported “200 to 300 martyrs” killed in a bombing that hit the grounds of the Ahli Arab hospital, located in the city center.
“Hundreds of victims are in the rubble,” added this source, without specifying whether they were dead or injured.
Asked by AFP, the Israeli army said it was verifying this information.
The Hamas media office denounced “a new war crime of the occupation (Israel, Editor’s note)” and indicated that “hundreds of patients, wounded and displaced people” were in the establishment.
Earlier, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) reported the death of six people who had taken refuge in one of its schools in the central Gaza Strip. They were killed in an Israeli raid, according to the same source.
According to the agency, at least 4,000 people had taken refuge in this establishment due to the war between Hamas and Israel.
This broke out following a bloody attack by commandos from the Islamist movement on Israeli soil on October 7.
Israeli retaliatory strikes on the Gaza Strip killed around 3,000 people, mostly Palestinian civilians, according to local authorities.
More than 1,400 people were killed in Israel, most of them civilians killed on the day of the attack, the deadliest since the creation of the State of Israel.