Israeli strikes on hospitals in Gaza on Tuesday reportedly killed a minimum of 18 folks, after a quick pause in preventing which noticed the discharge of 21-year-old Israeli-American Edan Alexander, who had been in Hamas captivity because the 7 October 2023 assault.
The strikes hit the European Hospital complicated close to Khan Younis and left massive craters gouged into the bottom and cracks within the courtyard outdoors the European Hospital complicated, pictures from the AFP information company present. A broken bus was lodged in a gap within the highway.
“Everyone inside the hospital – patients and wounded alike – was running in fear, some on crutches, others screaming for their children, while others were being dragged on beds,” Amro Tabash, an area photojournalist, informed AFP.
Israeli media reported that the goal of the strikes on the European Hospital complicated was Hamas chief Mohammed Sinwar, brother of the group’s earlier chief, Yahya Sinwar, who was killed in an Israeli operation in October 2024. Israel’s army stated it hit a “Hamas command centre” beneath the hospital.
Hamas denies exploiting hospitals and civilian properties for army functions
The opposite strike hit Gaza’s Nasser hospital, which the Israeli army stated focused “eliminated significant Hamas terrorists”, amongst them a widely known Palestinian journalist, Hassan Aslih. Gaza’s well being ministry stated one different particular person died within the Nasser hospital strike.
Israel had accused Aslih of collaborating in Hamas’s 7 October 2023 assaults. It has stated Aslih documented and uploaded footage of “looting, arson and murder” through the Hamas-led incursion into Israel.
The discharge of 21-year-old Israeli-American Edan Alexander provided a quick pause within the preventing on Monday. However the strikes resumed amid fierce new criticism of Israel’s ways within the struggle.
“In the very coming days, we are going in with full force to complete the operation,” Netanyahu was quoted as saying in an announcement launched on Tuesday.
On Monday, Netanyahu stated his nation’s operation in Gaza can be thought-about full solely when Hamas is destroyed.
“There will be no situation where we stop the war,” he stated. “A temporary ceasefire might happen, but we are going all the way.”
UN reduction chief Tom Fletcher known as on the UN safety council to take motion “to prevent genocide” in Gaza as he gave a scathing account of Israel’s actions within the territory.
“Will you act – decisively – to prevent genocide and to ensure respect for international humanitarian law?” he stated to UN ambassadors in New York.
Late on Tuesday, the Israeli army urged civilians in a number of components of northern Gaza to evacuate after it intercepted “two projectiles” fired from the territory. The armed wing of Hamas ally Islamic Jihad claimed duty for rocket fireplace into Israel, which has been uncommon in latest weeks.
Netanyahu credited Alexander’s launch on Monday to a mix of “our military pressure and the political pressure exerted by President Trump.” This has been rejected by Hamas, which has stated it engaged in direct talks with Washington on a ceasefire in Gaza.
Netanyahu thanked Trump for serving to within the launch and stated he can be sending negotiators to Qatar on Tuesday to debate remaining captives. Trump arrived in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday to start out a Gulf tour that will even take him to Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.
Hamas’s 2023 assault on Israel resulted within the deaths of 1,218 folks, largely civilians, in line with an AFP tally based mostly on official knowledge.
Militants additionally kidnapped 251 folks, of whom 57 are nonetheless being held in Gaza, together with 34 declared useless by the Israeli military.
The Israeli offensive in retaliation for the assault has killed a minimum of 52,908 folks in Gaza, largely civilians, in line with knowledge from the Hamas-run well being ministry, which is taken into account dependable by the UN.
