Khan Younis:Gaza Years of Israeli attacks have pushed the health system in the Gaza Strip to the brink of collapse, the United Nations warned on Friday.
According to Palestine news & Information Agency, the UN Human Rights Office in Palestine reported that an Israeli airstrike on November 11 struck a building housing the surgical department at Nasser Medical Complex. This attack resulted in the deaths of six Palestinians and injured approximately 30 others. The Nasser Medical Complex is one of the few hospitals still trying to provide medical services in the besieged enclave.
The office stated that three missiles were used in the attack, but only one detonated, leaving unexploded ordnance that poses an additional threat to patients, health workers, and civilians. The statement also recalled Israeli attacks on the same medical complex in August 2025, which killed 22 Palestinians, including five journalists.
The UN Human Rights Office highlighted a 2024 report on repeated Israeli attacks against hospitals in Gaza, noting that most of the enclave's hospitals had already been destroyed by that time. They criticized the Israeli military for failing to provide adequate information to verify claims that targeted hospitals and medical facilities had lost their special protection under international law.
The recent airstrike on Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis killed six Palestinians, including a child and a doctor, and injured around 30 others. This attack occurred amid ongoing Israeli violations of a ceasefire agreement in Gaza that took effect on October 10, 2025.
Since October 7, 2023, Israel's military actions in the Strip have resulted in the deaths of 74,653 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injured 176,007 others. The destruction of 90% of Gaza's infrastructure has led to reconstruction costs estimated at $70 billion.
Following the ceasefire agreement on October 11, 2025, Israel has killed 1,622 Palestinians and injured 5,878 others, with at least 850 bodies recovered during this period. The aggression has also caused the forceful displacement of nearly two million people, with many forced into the southern city of Rafah, marking the largest mass exodus since the 1948 Nakba.
