EDITORS NOTE: Graphic content / Relatives and colleagues mourn as they pray during the funeral of Palestinian journalist Hussam Shabat, who collaborated with Al Jazeera Mubasher, and Muhammad Mansour, an employee of the Islamic Jihad-affiliated Palestine Today TV, at the Indonesian Hospital in Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip, on March 24, 2025. AFP
On Sunday night, Israel's occupation army struck Nasser Hospital, the largest medical facility in southern Gaza, killing two people, injuring others, and causing a significant fire.
The strike hit the surgical building of the hospital, located in Khan Younis, which was already overwhelmed with casualties following Israel's resumption of the war last week.
The renewed Israeli deadly bombardment, which began on Tuesday after the collapse of the ceasefire, killed at least 680 Palestinians.
Among those killed in Sunday night's strike were a 16-year-old boy who had undergone surgery two days prior and Ismail Barhoum, a member of Hamas’ political bureau, who was receiving treatment at the hospital, according to a Hamas statement.
Like other medical facilities in Gaza, Nasser Hospital has sustained damage from Israeli raids and strikes throughout the war.
The Health Ministry reported earlier Sunday that the total Palestinian death toll in the war has now exceeded 50,000, including 15,613 children, with 872 of them under 1 year old.
Displacement under fire
Meanwhile, Israel's army ordered thousands of Palestinians to leave the heavily destroyed Tel al-Sultan neighborhood in the southern city of Rafah. They walked to Muwasi, a sprawling area of squalid tent camps. Israel has forced most of Gaza's population of over 2 million to flee within the territory, often multiple times.
“It’s displacement under fire,” said Mustafa Gaber, a journalist who left with his family. He said tank and drone fire echoed nearby.
“The shells are falling among us and the bullets are (flying) above us," said Amal Nassar, also displaced.
“The elderly have been thrown into the streets. An old woman was telling her son, ‘Go and leave me to die.’ Where will we go?”
“Enough is enough. We are exhausted," said a fleeing Ayda Abu Shaer, as smoke rose in the distance.
The Palestinian Red Crescent emergency service said it lost contact with a 10-member team responding to the strikes in Rafah. Spokesperson Nebal Farsakh said some were wounded.
In Gaza City, an explosion hit next to a tent camp where people had been told to evacuate. “My husband is blind and started running barefoot, and my children were running,” said witness Nidaa Hassuna.
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