Israeli attacks have killed at least 13 Palestinians across Gaza, as the United Nations launched an emergency appeal for waterproof tents to shelter hundreds of thousands of people at risk of flooding from heavy rains.
At least six Palestinians were killed in an Israeli airstrike on the Nasser medical complex west of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, according to the Ministry of Health and Gaza Civil Defense. The attack in the early hours of Thursday injured 20 other people.
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“Most of those killed and injured were patients, including people who were scheduled to undergo surgery the next day,” Al Jazeera’s Hind Khoudary said, reporting from Gaza City.
She added that this was the seventh time Israel had struck the hospital in the past two years.
“The strike targeted the second floor of the Nasser Medical Complex… It is one of the largest hospitals in the Gaza Strip and the only hospital still standing in Khan Younis, serving at least 500,000 people in southern Gaza,” Khoudary said.
The Israeli army said it was targeting a Hamas member in hospital.
Hamas condemned the strike as a “war crime that reveals the impunity of the (Israeli) occupation.” In a statement, he said: “Mediators and the US administration must take steps to end ongoing violations by the occupation and ensure respect for the ceasefire. »
Before the attack on the Nasser Medical Complex, Israeli attacks killed seven other Palestinians across the Gaza Strip.
On Wednesday, an Israeli airstrike killed Mohammed Salem al-Daash, 38, in the Sabra neighborhood south of Gaza City.
Another Palestinian was shot and killed by Israeli forces east of the Bureij camp in central Gaza, and another was killed in an Israeli drone strike in the Nassr neighborhood in northwest Gaza City.
At least two Palestinians were killed and several others injured in a strike that hit a tent sheltering displaced people in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, north of Gaza City.
Al Jazeera’s Khoudary described Israeli attacks as indiscriminate targeting of civilians, saying people who were simply trying to survive lost their lives, such as “a man filling a water tank, (who) was killed in a drone strike.”
“In another attack, two brothers from the al-Absi family were killed while sheltering in their tent on al-Jalaa Street,” she said, adding that nowhere in Gaza was safe.
“This is not an acceptable excuse”
The Israeli attacks came as the UN called for more tents to be sent to the enclave, as at least 70,000 tents were flooded by weekend rains, according to the Gaza government media office.
Heavy rains have directly affected at least 106,000 people in Gaza in recent days, according to UNICEF, the United Nations children’s agency, with thousands of tents for displaced Palestinians submerged underwater and latrines overflowing in camps.
NGOs and local organizations say they have neither the resources nor the capacity to deal with the crisis, as Israel continues to restrict the entry of essential aid.
“Ultimately, we need the Israeli authorities to cooperate in granting the permits so that we can bring in these tents,” U.N. deputy spokesperson Farhan Haq told reporters at a news briefing, adding that in addition to funding, Israeli permits were needed “to bring this in.”
Some countries supporting aid deliveries to Gaza have said delivery of winter supplies will have to wait until an Israeli government is formed, according to Tom Fletcher, the UN under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs.
In a statement, Fletcher said foreign ministers had assured their support, “but they also repeatedly said that progress would be difficult until after the Israeli elections. Now we are being told to wait until a government is formed.”
“This is not an acceptable excuse,” he added, citing international law and the consequences of delays, blockages and funding cuts.
Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said on Wednesday that Rome had launched a new emergency initiative worth 5 million euros ($5.5 million) to provide immediate aid to the Gaza Strip following the floods.
The death toll from Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza has risen to 74,653 civilians killed since October 7, 2023, according to Gaza health authorities.
An additional 176,007 Palestinians have been injured in the past three years. More than 5,878 people have been injured since the Gaza “ceasefire” agreement took effect in October 2025.
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