🏥 Strike on Gaza's largest southern hospital kills six, health ministry says
Missiles hit the surgical and intensive care building of Nasser hospital in Khan Younis; Israel says it targeted a Hamas commander.
The mystery
Under international law hospitals are protected places, yet they have been hit again and again during the Gaza war. Nasser Medical Complex serves nearly a million people in southern Gaza. What happened overnight, and why are the accounts so different?
The answer
The Hamas-run health ministry said six people, including surgeon Dr Rizq Abu Shaira, were killed and about 30 injured when two missiles hit the al-Yasin surgery building, which holds operating theatres and intensive care units. The hospital's director said one missile did not explode. A surgeon with a head injury described being trapped under rubble in the dark just after finishing his shift. Israel's army said the strike was aimed at a senior figure in Hamas's military wing and at fighters it says were running operations from the hospital; Hamas called that a false story covering up a war crime. Israel accuses Hamas of hiding weapons and command centres in medical buildings, and Hamas rejects this. Foreign reporters are barred by Israel from entering Gaza, so independent checks are difficult.
Now think about this
When each side tells a completely different story and reporters cannot get in, how can the world find out what really happened?
