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An Israeli airstrike targeted Nasser Medical Complex in southern Gaza early Thursday, killing six Palestinians and wounding more than 20 others, according to Gaza's Civil Defense.
Israeli Army Radio described the strike as an "assassination operation" but provided no further details.
The strike hit the second floor of the Al-Yasin building at the hospital in western Khan Younis, causing extensive damage to its intensive care and surgical wards, the hospital's director reported.
The hospital attack followed a series of deadly Israeli strikes elsewhere in the territory on Wednesday. Five Palestinians were killed in attacks on Gaza City and the Bureij refugee camp, while another died from wounds sustained in an Israeli strike on Tuesday.
Tuesday's attacks also claimed the life of a 20-year-old Palestinian footballer, Mahmoud Kamal Fares Abdel-Malek, captain and goalkeeper of Gaza Sports Club.
The Palestinian Football Association confirmed that Abdel-Malek was killed in an airstrike in the Sabra neighborhood of southern Gaza City, just five days after competing in the final of the Thousand Martyrs Cup.
His death brought the number of Palestinian athletes and sports workers killed since October 2023 to 1,017, according to the association.
Gaza Sports Club finished second in the Gaza and Northern Gaza division of the tournament, whose final took place on Nov. 5.
The competition marked the return of organized football after Israel's war and the destruction of sporting facilities had forced a prolonged suspension of the game. It began on Sept. 4, bringing together more than 200 teams from Gaza, the occupied West Bank and Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon.
The association had also reported the killing of another young footballer. Israeli forces shot and killed Mohammed Nidal Barbakh, a 15-year-old player at Al-Najma Sports Academy, while he was playing football with friends in Al-Mawasi in southern Gaza, according to an announcement on Saturday.
The latest attacks came amid continued violations of the ceasefire agreement that took effect on Oct. 10, 2025. Israeli violations have killed 1,622 Palestinians and wounded 5,878 others since the truce began, according to figures released by Palestinian medical sources on Wednesday.
Despite the ceasefire, Israeli attacks have continued across the Gaza Strip, leaving more families dead or injured and adding to the destruction caused by more than two years of war. The United Nations has also documented continued killings, repeated displacement, and growing restrictions on the areas where Palestinians can live.
Since October 2023, Israel's war on Gaza has killed 74,653 Palestinians and wounded 176,007 others, according to the latest figures from Palestinian medical sources published on Nov. 11. Most of those killed have been women and children.
The offensive has also devastated Gaza's civilian infrastructure, with 90% of the territory's infrastructure destroyed. Nearly two million Palestinians have been forcibly displaced during the war, with many families repeatedly uprooted and left to seek shelter in overcrowded areas.
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