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Israeli air strike on a Gaza hospital compound killed at least 500 people, the Palestinian health ministry in Gaza has said.
Israeli air strike on a Gaza hospital compound killed at least 500 people, the Palestinian health ministry in Gaza has said.
There were at least 500 victims as a result of an Israeli air strike on Al Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza, a spokesman for the health ministry in Gaza said on Tuesday.
"Hundreds of victims are still under the rubble," it added.
The media office of Gaza's Hamas government 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 spokesperson would not immediately confirm its forces bombed the hospital.
"We will look into it ... the strike happened just a short while ago, " Daniel Hagari said in a televised press briefing.
Around 3,000 people have been killed in Israeli air strikes across Gaza since the war erupted on October 7.
More than 1,400 people in Israel have been killed, the majority gunned down by Hamas fighters who crossed from Gaza and attacked border communities.
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Source: TRT
