Deadly Israeli strikes target 2 separate Khan Younis hospitals in 1 day

Yasmine Hassan · CBC News

· Posted: May 13, 2025 8:31 PM EDT | Last Updated: 12 minutes ago

After a deadly onslaught connected the European Hospital successful Khan Younis Tuesday, patients who managed to flight and radical trying to find loved ones were forced to navigate immense craters marring the aesculapian centre's courtyard, arsenic mangled slabs of cracked factual jutted up from the thoroughfare successful each direction.

The craters were the effect of 9 missiles fired astatine the infirmary by Israel, sidesplitting astatine slightest 16 radical and wounding 70 others, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. It was the 2nd Israeli onslaught of the time targeting hospitals successful the Gaza Strip, aft an earlier airstrike hit the Nasser Medical Complex, besides successful Khan Younis, sidesplitting 2 patients, including a well-known journalist.

Some patients astatine the European Hospital were wheeled retired of the gathering connected gurneys portion others leaned connected radical helping them limp distant arsenic members of the civilian defence conducted rescue operations.

Rasmiya Al-Saleh sat connected a gurney successful the mediate of the street. The visibly shaken 45-year-old was wrapped successful bluish and achromatic blankets, leaning against a bundle of reddish blankets that held her meagre belongings, arsenic she asked passersby to find her a car. She was astatine the infirmary to person idiosyncratic look astatine her breached limb erstwhile the rocket onslaught happened.  

"They told maine to get out," she told CBC News freelance videographer Mohamed El Saife. "They didn't analyse maine oregon bash immoderate tests oregon anything."  

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Abdul Karim Al-Khamis, 35, was wrong the infirmary with his father, who was waiting to beryllium evacuated overseas for treatment, erstwhile they heard a large detonation and realized they were nether attack. 

"There are radical successful the ICU, determination are radical successful the rooms," helium told CBC News from the damaged courtyard wherever galore radical milled astir looking for ambulances oregon cars to instrumentality them distant from the destruction. 

"It's the lone infirmary successful the south. Where tin we go?" 

In a connection posted to Telegram, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said it had conducted a "precise" onslaught to deed a "Hamas bid center" beneath the European Hospital. Hamas denies exploiting hospitals and civilian properties for subject purposes.

Journalist killed successful Nasser Hospital strike

The Gaza Health Ministry said 2 patients were killed successful the earlier onslaught connected Nasser Medical Complex, including Hassan Aslih, a well-known Palestinian writer who was recovering determination from an earlier strike. 

Israel had accused Aslih of taking portion successful the Oct. 7, 2023 attack, and said helium had documented and uploaded footage of "looting, arson and murder" during the Hamas-led incursion into confederate Israel that killed astir 1,200 radical and saw immoderate 250 taken hostage, according to Israeli tallies. Israel's responding crushed and aerial penetration has killed much than 52,000 people, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.

The IDF said successful a connection that it struck "significant Hamas terrorists who were operating from wrong a bid and power center" located astatine the Nasser Hospital. It didn't sanction them.

Ahmed Siyyam, a Gaza civilian exigency work member, told Reuters the onslaught deed the 3rd level of the Nasser hospital, wherever dozens of patients and injured were being treated.

Reuters footage showed dense harm to 1 of the infirmary buildings, including to the aesculapian instrumentality and beds inside.

"I came to the infirmary not knowing whether to mourn the martyrs, dainty the patients and injured, oregon woody with the unit who nary longer consciousness safe," said Atef Al-Hout, the manager of Nasser Hospital.