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At least 200 killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza hospital complex: Palestinian health ministry
The Hindu
‘The hospital in central Gaza was housing hundreds of sick and wounded, and people forcibly displaced from their homes’ because of other strikes, a statement said.
Israeli air strikes on a Gaza hospital compound on October 17 killed at least 200 people, the health ministry in the Hamas-run Palestinian territory said.
“Two hundred to 300 displaced people killed in occupation (Israeli) strikes on the yard” of the Ahli Arab hospital in central Gaza, the ministry said.
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“Hundreds of victims are still under the rubble,” it added.
The media office of Hamas described the attack as a “war crime”.
“The hospital was housing hundreds of sick and wounded, and people forcibly displaced from their homes” because of other strikes, a statement said.
An Israeli military spokesman would not immediately confirm its forces bombed the hospital.