Update: France 24 reported that elsewhere in Gaza, a nine-month-old baby died from the cold as families fled worsening weather.
Update: The South China Morning Post reported that Israeli fire killed 11 people in Gaza on Thursday, including the six at Nasser Hospital, revising the day’s toll upward.
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Israeli Strike Hits Nasser Hospital in Gaza; At Least Six Killed, Including a Surgeon, Civil Defence Says
By Maya Wilson
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An Israeli strike hit the intensive care unit of the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, Gaza, with at least six people killed, according to Gaza’s Civil Defence as reported by Al Jazeera in a video newsfeed published on November 12.
Al Jazeera reported that the strike struck the hospital’s intensive care unit. The casualty figure of at least six killed was attributed by the outlet to Gaza’s Civil Defence. The report did not provide further details about the victims or the circumstances of the strike.
The report is a further account of an attack on the Nasser Medical Complex following Al Jazeera’s earlier reporting on Israeli strikes across Gaza. In that report, Al Jazeera said at least four Palestinians were killed in a strike on the medical complex in the early hours of Thursday, citing Civil Defence spokesperson Mahmoud Basal.
Later reporting by Reuters and the BBC indicates the Al Jazeera accounts describe the same early-Thursday strike on the hospital complex, with officials updating the casualty figures as the day went on.
Al Jazeera’s video report did not include an Israeli military statement or response to the ICU strike.
Reuters reported that an Israeli airstrike hit a building at Nasser Hospital early on Thursday, killing at least six people, including a surgeon, and wounding 20 others, citing Civil Defence spokesperson Mahmoud Basal, who said the strike hit the surgery department and caused extensive damage; medics identified the dead surgeon as Rezik Abushira. The BBC reported that a single missile struck a building housing the hospital’s surgical wards and intensive care units, and that the hospital’s director described a vertical strike causing extensive damage to the intensive care and surgical departments. Basal had earlier told AFP that six people had been killed. There was no immediate Israeli military comment; the BBC said it had contacted the Israel Defense Forces for comment.
The Israeli military later said the strike had targeted a Hamas commander, according to reporting by the Times of Israel and NPR. That claim has not been independently confirmed.
Maya Wilson
World Desk Lead, The Library Media
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