Israeli airstrike kills 6 Palestinians at Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza An Israeli airstrike killed six Palestinians and wounded more than 20 others at Nasser Medical Complex in southern Gaza early on Thursday, Gaza’s Civil Defence said. The strike hit the second floor of the Al-Yasin building at the complex in western Khan Younis. The hospital’s director said the strike caused extensive damage to the intensive care and surgical wards. Israeli Army Radio claims the strike was an “assassination operation” without providing further details to substantiate its claim. Five Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza City and the Bureij refugee camp on Wednesday, while a sixth died of wounds sustained in an Israeli strike on Tuesday. An Israeli airstrike also killed a 20-year-old Palestinian goalkeeper in Gaza five days after he played in a tournament final honouring athletes and sports officials killed since October 2023, the Palestinian Football Association said. Mahmoud Kamal Fares Abdel-Malek, captain and goalkeeper of Gaza Sports Club, was killed on Tuesday in the Sabra neighbourhood of southern Gaza City. His death brought the death toll among Palestinian athletes and sports workers to 1,017, according to the association. His club finished second in the Gaza and Northern Gaza division of the Thousand Martyrs Cup, whose final took place on November 5. The tournament marked a return to organised football after Israel’s war, and the destruction of sporting facilities forced a prolonged suspension. It began on September 4, drawing more than 200 teams from Gaza, the occupied West Bank and Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon. Read: UNICEF says Israel blocks Gaza basin repairs Days earlier, the association announced the death of another young footballer. It said on Saturday that Israeli forces had shot and killed Mohammed Nidal Barbakh, a 15-year-old player at Al-Najma Sports Academy, while he was playing football with friends in Al-Mawasi, southern Gaza. Tuesday’s airstrike came amid continued Israeli violations of the ceasefire agreement that took effect on October 10, 2025. Since October 2023, Israel’s war on Gaza has killed more than 74,600 Palestinians and wounded nearly 176,000 others. Most of those killed or wounded were women and children. The war has also destroyed 90% of the territory’s infrastructure.