Gazans say hospital hit by shells

A Gazan health official and a doctor report Israeli tank shells have struck a hospital in central Gaza. The health official says the shells killed at least four people and wounded 60, including 30 medical staff.

The Israeli military says it is looking into the report.

Health official Ashraf al-Qidra says 12 shells hit the Al Aqsa hospital in the town of Deir el-Balah. He says the shells landed in the administration building, the intensive care unit and the surgery department.

Footage on Hamas’s Al Aqsa TV station shows wounded being moved on gurneys into the emergency department.

A doctor at the hospital, Fayez Zidane, tells the station that shells hit the third and fourth floor as well as the reception area.

“There is still shelling against the hospital,” he says. He says he found bits of a rocket, presumably from one of the projectiles.

— AP