Three Palestinians were martyred and eight others injured in Israeli military strikes continuing since early Friday across various locations in the Gaza Strip, including shelling and air raids targeting civilians and vital facilities in Khan Younis and Gaza City.
Among the martyrs was 20-year-old Iyad Mohammed Al-Jazzar, who succumbed to severe wounds inflicted during an Israeli strike on a building within Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis on Thursday. Emergency and civil defense teams recovered the body parts of another martyr near the Turkish slaughterhouse west of Khan Younis amid difficulties due to ongoing intense shelling.
Khan Younis witnessed two separate martyrdoms, and a third Palestinian was killed east of Gaza City by Israeli forces who briefly infiltrated Al-Tuffah neighborhood before retreating under heavy fire.
Israeli drones targeted a tent sheltering displaced people in the Al-Mawasi area west of Khan Younis overnight, resulting in deaths and injuries. The wounded were transferred to Nasser Governmental Hospital under harsh medical conditions.
In Al-Tuffah, an elderly woman and her son were injured due to artillery shelling of residential homes, while gunfire from Israeli forces toward displaced persons’ tents in Rafah's Mawasi area critically wounded a girl with a bullet to the neck.
Northern Gaza areas including Beit Lahia and Jabalia, as well as Al-Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza, faced heavy shelling and gunfire. These attacks are part of ongoing escalations targeting densely populated and displaced communities.
Medical sources confirmed that the assault on Nasser Medical Complex effectively shut down its surgical and intensive care units, delivering a devastating blow to the southern sector’s health system. The complex remains the largest medical facility in Gaza after the deliberate destruction of Al-Shifa Hospital.
Medical teams are attempting to provide emergency services from alternative departments, which lack adequate capacity. Calls are increasing to reveal the fate of medical staff abducted by Israeli forces inside hospitals, including Dr. Hassan Abu Safiya, detained without trial under the “illegal combatant” designation and denied access to lawyers and medical care.
The Israeli military acknowledged conducting the strike on Nasser Hospital, alleging the targeting of Hamas leaders using medical facilities for military purposes—a claim repeated in previous attacks on health infrastructure.
Hamas rejected these allegations, describing the bombing as a "war crime" and terrorism aimed at destroying vital life resources, condemning international endorsements of Israel’s misleading narrative justifying attacks on civilians and patients.
These massacres occur amid an ongoing genocidal war imposed by Israel on Gaza since October 2023, resulting in over 74,000 martyrs and more than 175,000 wounded—mostly women and children—along with massive destruction of infrastructure.