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.
Israel a year ago: we would never bomb a hospital!
Israel a 3 months later: hospitals are Hamas bases!
Israel a year later: We bombed a hospital we killed this wounded politician who was even not in the armed wing of Hamas. And 5 other people including children. Are we not amazing!
Kudos to the Western media apparatus collectively omitting that that bombing even a wounded soldier in a hospital is a war crime. Put Hamas in the title!