Three people were killed and 40 injured on Sunday by an Israeli airstrike on a hospital courtyard in central Gaza where displaced Palestinians were sheltering, according to the Government Media Office in the enclave.
The office said it was the seventh time that the camp inside the grounds of the Al-Aqsa hospital in Deir al-Balah had been struck since January and called on the international community to pressure Israel to stop attacks against civilians.
The Israeli military said it conducted a precise strike on a Hamas command center “embedded inside a compound that previously served as the ‘Shuhadah Al-Aqsa’ hospital.” The military also said it took steps to limit harming civilians and blamed Hamas for using civilian infrastructure.
Israeli strikes in Gaza killed at least 40 people on Sunday, including at least 13 children. Many of the dead and wounded had been brought to the Al-Aqsa hospital on Sunday.
