By South China Morning Post | Created at 2024-12-29 17:01:20 | Updated at 2025-01-01 15:56:49
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The Israeli military killed seven people in a missile attack on a hospital in the eastern part of Gaza City, Palestinian civil defence officials said on Sunday.
The Israeli missile was reported to have hit the fifth floor of Al-Wafaa Hospital, injuring others and prompting a panicked evacuation of the building.
Israeli military officials, offering a different version, said the hospital was not being used at the time of the attack and was instead functioning as the command centre of a Hamas air defence unit which was targeted with a precision attack.
Information from both sides could not be independently verified.
Since the start of the Israel-Gaza war in October 2023, Israel has repeatedly hit Gaza’s hospitals, school buildings and refugee camps with missiles, saying that Hamas fighters and weapons are hidden there.
On Saturday the Israeli military ended a three-day operation at the Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern city of Beit Lahia, during which it said it arrested 240 Hamas fighters.
