A Palestinian man died of wounds sustained in an earlier Israeli bombardment on Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, while seven civilians, including a child, were injured on Thursday morning when Israeli warplanes struck an area near the Al‑Aqsa Hospital, and Al-Maghazi refugee camp, in Deir al‑Balah in central Gaza.
The strike targeted a gathering of residents close to the Al-Aqsa hospital compound, wounding six people, some of them critically, as the broader Israeli onslaught on the Gaza Strip continues.
Medical officials stated that a young woman, Hala Darwish, was rushed to the Intensive Care Unit suffering a serios gunshot wound to the head when Israeli soldiers targeted her family’s home with live rounds in the Al-Maghazi refugee camp.
Her family said Hala was preparing to be married on May 1 but is now in extremely critical condition as medical teams work to save her life.
The strike near Al‑Aqsa Hospital in Deir al‑Balah is part of a pattern of repeated Israeli attacks on areas surrounding medical facilities, endangering patients, medical staff, and displaced families sheltering in and around hospitals.
Also, medical sources at Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis announced the death of Hannoun Ismael Hanoun Barbakh, 35, who succumbed to wounds sustained in a previous Israeli bombardment that targeted the Sheikh Nasser neighborhood east of the city. Doctors said he had remained in critical condition since the earlier attack.
הילדות האלה ראו את אמא שלהן נהרגת להן מול העיניים. הודא אלעטאר, הייתה בת 40 לפני יומיים ונהרגה על ידי הצבא באזור שמוגדר ״בטוח״.
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In addition, the Israeli army acknowledged on Wednesday that it killed Palestinian paramedic Ibrahim Abu Saqer, while claiming he was a “Hamas operative” who had been “planning an imminent attack against Israeli forces.”
In a statement issued by its spokesperson, the Israeli army claimed that Abu Saqer “served as a paramedic within Hamas’ military medical services,” alleging that he posed a threat to the medical system and to civilians in the Gaza Strip. The army provided no evidence to support its allegations.
The Gaza Ministry of Health said hospitals across the Strip received two Palestinians killed during the past 24 hours, including one whose body was recovered from under the rubble, in addition to eight injured.
The Ministry stressed that these figures do not include victims who remain trapped beneath collapsed buildings or in areas that ambulances and civil defense crews cannot reach due to ongoing bombardment, destroyed roads, and the lack of fuel.
Since the limited “ceasefire” announced on October 11, 2025, the Ministry has documented 824 Palestinians killed and 2,316 injured, including 764 bodies recovered in retrieval operations from destroyed neighborhoods.
Health officials said the numbers continue to rise as more bodies are uncovered and as wounded Palestinians die from their injuries in overstretched hospitals.
Cumulatively, since the beginning of the genocide in Gaza on October 7, 2023, the Ministry of Health reports 72,601 Palestinians killed and 172,419 injured in the devastated coastal enclave.
Humanitarian organizations warn that the real toll is significantly higher due to the large number of missing persons, the collapse of the health system, and the severe shortages of medicine, fuel, food, and clean water under the ongoing siege.
The Health Ministry called on international organizations to intervene immediately to protect medical centers and ensure the entry of fuel, medical supplies, and humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip.
