GENEVA, November 13, 2026 (WAFA) – Years of Israeli attacks have pushed the health system in the Gaza Strip to the brink of collapse, the UN warned on Friday, Anadolu reports.
The UN Human Rights Office in Palestine said in a statement that an Israeli airstrike on Nov. 11 hit a building housing the surgical department at Nasser Medical Complex, killing six Palestinians and injuring around 30 others.
The office said Nasser Medical Complex was among the few hospitals still struggling to provide medical services in the besieged, genocide-stricken enclave.
Three missiles were used in the attack, but only one detonated, it said, warning that the unexploded ordnance posed an additional threat to patients, health workers and civilians.
The statement also recalled Israeli attacks on Nasser Medical Complex in August 2025, when three airstrikes killed 22 Palestinians, including five journalists.
Citing a 2024 report on repeated Israeli attacks against hospitals in Gaza, the office noted that most of the enclave’s hospitals had already been destroyed by that time.
It said the Israeli military had failed to provide sufficient information to independently verify its claims that targeted hospitals, ambulances and health workers had lost their special protection under international law and become legitimate military targets.
“Under international humanitarian law, all parties are obliged to protect and respect medical personnel and facilities, including hospitals, which must not be targeted or used for military purposes,” the office said.
An Israeli airstrike on a building at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis on Thursday killed six Palestinians, including a child and a doctor, and injured around 30 others.
The attack came amid continued Israeli violations of a ceasefire agreement in Gaza that took effect on Oct. 10, 2025.
Israel has waged a military onslaught on the Strip since 7 October 2023, killing 74,653 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injuring 176,007 others. It has destroyed 90% of the Strip’s infrastructure, with the cost of Gaza reconstruction estimated at $70 billion.
Since the Gaza ceasefire agreement went into effect on October 11, 2025, Israel has killed 1,622 Palestinians and injured 5,878 others. The bodies of at least 850 slain Palestinians have been recovered during the same period.
The Israeli aggression has also resulted in the forceful displacement of nearly two million people from all over the Gaza Strip, with the vast majority of the displaced forced into the densely crowded southern city of Rafah near the border with Egypt – in what has become Palestine’s largest mass exodus since the 1948 Nakba.
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