Israel says strikes on Gaza hospital complex targeted underground bunker

washingtonpost.comPublished: 5/13/2025

Summary

JAFFA, Israel — Israel carried out massive strikes on a hospital complex in southern Gaza on Tuesday, causing chaos at the facility, overturning concrete on roads and in the courtyard and leaving gaping craters from a raid the military said targeted an underground bunker used by Hamas. It was knocked out of service in July after the Israeli military ordered its evacuation, then reopened in August with the help of PalMed Europe, a Paris-based nonprofit of Palestinian doctors. The strike was the second Israeli attack on a hospital in Gaza on Tuesday. Earlier, the military targeted Nasser Hospital, also in Khan Younis, killing wounded journalist Hassan Eslaiah. Nermeen Ziyad Abo Mostafa, a medical student, was at her home near the European Hospital when the strikes hit.