By Elham Asaad Buaras
LONDON, (The Muslim News): Israeli attacks killed 11 Palestinians, including a child, a doctor and a woman, and wounded around 40 others across the Gaza Strip on Thursday, as an airstrike hit Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, killing six people and damaging its intensive care and surgical wards.
The attack on the hospital in western Khan Younis killed medical personnel, patients and their companions, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. Among those killed was Dr Rizq Abu Shaira.
Gaza’s Civil Defence said the Israeli airstrike struck the second floor of the Al-Yasin building within the medical complex, injuring around 30 people. The hospital’s director said the bombing caused extensive damage to its intensive care and surgical departments.
Israeli Army Radio described the strike as an “assassination operation” but provided no further details.
The Gaza Health Ministry condemned the bombing as “a serious assault on the health system and a flagrant violation of international laws and conventions that guarantee protection of medical facilities”.
The attack drew international condemnation, with Spain describing the bombing as another serious violation of international humanitarian law.
“The Spanish government condemns in the strongest terms the Israeli bombings against Nasser Hospital,” its Foreign Ministry said, expressing solidarity with the victims’ families and wishing those injured a speedy recovery.
It stressed that the Geneva Conventions protect hospitals and medical personnel during armed conflict and that medical facilities “can never be considered military targets”.
Madrid also said the attack violated the ceasefire agreement reached in October 2025 and called on Israel to allow the “urgent and massive entry of humanitarian aid” into Gaza.
The UN also expressed deep alarm over the bombing, which it said killed six people, injured 27 and caused extensive damage to the hospital.
Deputy UN spokesperson Farhan Haq said UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process ad interim Ramiz Alakbarov was deeply concerned that the continuing violence and recent increase in military operations were exacerbating suffering and jeopardising the increasingly fragile ceasefire.
Alakbarov reiterated calls for rapid, safe and unimpeded humanitarian access, including the delivery of durable shelter materials and winterisation supplies as colder weather approaches.
Thursday’s hospital bombing was among several Israeli attacks reported across Gaza.
In the northern Gaza Strip, a Palestinian man was killed and another moderately wounded when an Israeli drone struck a gathering of civilians in Jabalia al-Nazla, a medical source at Al-Shifa Hospital told Anadolu.
Earlier, a 35-year-old Palestinian man and a 46-year-old woman were killed when an Israeli drone struck a civilian vehicle near Al-Shifa Hospital. The woman later died from serious injuries sustained in the attack.
Several Palestinians also suffered minor injuries when an Israeli drone struck an evacuated house in the Shati refugee camp, north-west of Gaza City.
In central Gaza, an Israeli drone strike targeted a civilian vehicle on Al-Baraka Street in Deir al-Balah, killing a man and wounding others, according to a medical source at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital.
The body of Hassan Abu Khreis was also taken to the hospital after he was shot by Israeli forces in the Bureij refugee camp.
An Anadolu correspondent reported further Israeli shelling of al-Masdar village and surrounding areas, accompanied by heavy gunfire.
In southern Gaza, a 23-year-old Palestinian woman was critically wounded when Israeli forces opened fire on displacement tents in the Bir 19 area of al-Mawasi, west of Khan Younis.
She was shot while sleeping inside her tent and taken to Nasser Hospital, where she was admitted to intensive care, according to a medical source.
The attacks came amid continued Israeli violations of the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, which took effect on October 10, 2025.
As of Wednesday, Israeli violations had killed 1,622 Palestinians and wounded 5,878 since the ceasefire began, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. The figures do not include Thursday’s casualties.
Separately, Serbia’s student-backed movement, which won last month’s snap parliamentary elections, condemned Israel’s actions in Gaza, describing them as a systematic attempt to destroy the Palestinian people.
In a policy document entitled the “Student Plan”, the movement pledged to increase humanitarian assistance to Palestinians.
“Our people know well what it means to be victims of genocide and ethnic cleansing,” the document stated, adding that the movement opposed the oppression of weaker nations by more powerful ones.
“Accordingly, we will not be complicit in the systematic attempt to destroy the Palestinian people that Israel is carrying out in Gaza,” it said.
The movement pledged to increase humanitarian aid to save lives and reduce casualties.
Israel continues indiscriminate bombing and continues illegally occupying Lebanon
Meanwhile, Israeli military operations continued in neighbouring Lebanon, where airstrikes, artillery shelling, explosions and drone activity were reported across the south.
Lebanon’s National News Agency reported Israeli airstrikes on Haddatha in the Bint Jbeil district and Al-Mansouri, alongside explosions in Zawtar al-Sharqiyah, Qantara, Kfar Tebnit and Kounine.
Israeli forces also dropped two stun grenades near farmers on the outskirts of Kfar Shuba, while artillery shelled the outskirts of Rshaf. Machine-gun fire was directed towards Srebbine.
In Mayfadoun, three Israeli drones exploded in separate incidents, including two on the roofs of homes. Another exploded above the town, scattering debris into a residential garden.
The attacks continued despite a US-sponsored framework agreement reached between Beirut and Tel Aviv on June 26, which envisaged a gradual Israeli withdrawal from occupied Lebanese territory in exchange for the deployment of the Lebanese army and the disarmament of armed groups.
Lebanon’s Health Ministry said Israeli attacks since March 2 had killed 4,390 people and wounded 12,429 as of November 5.
Israel continues to illegally occupy areas of southern Lebanon, including positions held for decades and others seized during the 2023–2024 war, when Israeli ground forces advanced approximately 10 kilometres into Lebanese territory.
Trump threatens military action against Iran
Tensions also continued between Washington and Tehran after US President Donald Trump said he would not hesitate to use military force against Iran if US allies or ships were threatened.
Speaking to the Salem News Channel on Thursday, Trump was asked whether he would hesitate to use force to prevent Iran from threatening US allies and shipping.
“No hesitation. We’re doing very well with it right now,” he said.
He added: “If I saw things going the other way, I would do that, and it’s possible I would do it right now.”
Trump claimed the US had suffered no military fatalities in five months and asserted that Washington had “total” control of the Gulf.
He also defended the continuation of a US blockade, claiming Iran’s economy was collapsing and its military capabilities had been severely weakened. He provided no independent evidence for the figures and assessments he cited.
Separately, Iran’s IRNA news agency reported that Sirik County in the southern Hormozgan province was hit by an “enemy” strike on Thursday.
The agency, citing official sources, did not identify the attacker or provide details about the targets or possible casualties.
The Tasnim News Agency had earlier reported several consecutive explosions in the county, initially saying their cause was unclear. Some sources suggested they could have resulted from warning shots fired at vessels allegedly violating maritime regulations.
Sirik lies along Iran’s southern coast, east of the Strait of Hormuz, a strategically important maritime passage connecting the Gulf with the Gulf of Oman.
No further information about casualties or damage was immediately available.
[An infographic titled “Israel’s attacks on health services in Gaza” created in Ankara, Turkiye on November 13, 2026. Gaza’s health system suffered extensive damage in the Israeli military’s attacks, which began in October 2023. Photojournalist: Mehmet Yaren Bozğun/AA]
