Gaza health ministry says two killed in hospital attack

The Hamas-run health ministry in the Gaza Strip says an Israeli attack on Khan Younis’s Nasser Hospital killed two people and injured an unspecified number of others, including patients receiving treatment and medical staff. It does not immediately name the casualties.

Reports earlier indicated that among those killed was Hassan Eslaiah, whom the Israel Defense Forces said last month was a member of Hamas’s Khan Younis Brigade.

On October 7, Eslaiah, who was freelancing for the Associated Press, took photos of a burning tank on the Gaza border which had been attacked by Hamas operatives. He also invaded Israel with the terrorists and photographed them entering Kibbutz Nir Oz, where dozens of civilians were massacred. “During the massacre, he documented and uploaded footage of looting, arson, and murder to social media,” the IDF said last month.

The IDF announced in early April that it had targeted Eslaiah in an airstrike, but he managed to survive.

The IDF said overnight it carried out a “targeted strike” on “key” Hamas operatives inside the hospital compound, but did not say if any were killed in the strike.

The Gaza toll cannot be verified. Gazan health authorities in general do not differentiate between combatants and civilians.