Israeli strike kills six at southern Gaza hospital: civil defense

GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories: An Israeli strike killed six people and wounded around 20 at Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza, a civil defense official told AFP on Thursday.

The Gaza Strip’s civil defense, a rescue agency operating under Hamas authority, said the bodies of those killed and “more than” 20 people wounded in the strike had been recovered from a building at the medical complex.

“The death toll from the Israeli strike inside Nasser Medical Complex, west of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, has risen to six,” civil defense spokesperson Mahmoud Bassal told AFP.

Nasser Hospital confirmed the six deaths in a statement.