At least four people were killed and several others suffered injuries in an Israeli airstrike on a building at Nasser Hospital in the southern Gaza town of Khan Younis that targeted its basement early on Thursday, the Gaza’s civil defence service said.
The strike was against a hospital facility in the hospital complex, a civil defence source told Reuters. Emergency services were called in and the casualties of the attacks were treated.
Details of the airstrike were not immediately clear and no details of the casualties were available.
Nasser hospital is one of the prominent hospitals in the south of Gaza and one of the most important hospitals for receiving treatment to the people in the besieged city.
The Israeli military didn’t immediately comment on what was reported or on the casualties from the strike.
This is the latest attack amid the ongoing Gaza war that has seen a series of military operations resulting in extensive damage to the region’s infrastructure and overwhelming strain on the healthcare system.
The situation is continuing to be assessed and emergency services are notifying staff of affected areas and assisting those impacted from the strike. More details are being awaited on the circumstances of the attack and if there were any other casualties.
As the Palestinian area remains besieged by fighting, the reported airstrike has been joined by many other worries about the effect of the conflict on essential civilian infrastructure and medical facilities in Gaza.