An Israeli airstrike on a hospital in Gaza has killed five people, including a Hamas political leader and Palestinian medics, Hamas has said, in an attack that Israel said had targeted a key figure in the militant group.
The Gaza health ministry said the strike hit the surgery department at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis. The Israeli military said its attack followed extensive intelligence and used precise munitions to minimise harm at the site.
Hamas said a member of its political office, Ismail Barhoum, had been killed.
Israel’s defence minister, Israel Katz, confirmed the target was Barhoum. The military did not name the target, which it described only as “a key terrorist” in Hamas.
The "international rules-based order no longer exists (maybe it never really existed on the first place). International law isn’t murky here, it’s crystal clear: Israel is committing (yet another) war crime, they’re not even trying to hide it, and the US, the UK, Australia, and a number of other “western democracies” are just looking the other way.