KHAN YOUNIS (The Thursday Times) — An Israeli strike on Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, killed six people and wounded more than 20 early on Thursday, Gaza’s civil defence agency said.
“The death toll from the Israeli strike inside Nasser Medical Complex, west of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, has risen to six,” civil defence spokesman Mahmoud Bassal said. Earlier counts had put the dead at four and then five.
The strike hit the second floor of the Al-Yasin building inside the complex, and the hospital’s director said it caused extensive damage to the intensive care and surgical wards.
A target inside the hospital
Israeli Army Radio described the strike as an “assassination operation” without giving details. Palestinian sources said Khaled Abu Anza, a senior official in Hamas’s security apparatus, was among those killed.
Israel’s military said it was checking reports of the incident and had not confirmed the strike by early Thursday. It has previously accused Hamas of operating from inside Nasser Hospital, which Hamas denies.
The civil defence agency operates under the authority of Hamas, which ran Gaza before the war.
Strikes despite the ceasefire
Nasser is the largest hospital still working in southern Gaza, and has been hit repeatedly during the war. Israeli strikes have continued across the territory despite the ceasefire that took effect on October 10, 2025, with people killed in Gaza City and the Bureij refugee camp on Wednesday.
Earlier this week a 20-year-old goalkeeper of Gaza Sports Club was among those killed in an Israeli strike on Gaza City.
