Footage shows child patients fleeing Gaza hospital on beds as Israel strikes | ITV News
At least 22 children have been killed in Gaza after Israel hit the region with a wave of airstrikes, the Hamas-run health ministry said on Wednesday.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the strikes were targeting Hamas leader Mohammed Sinwar and promised an escalation of force.
The Israel Defense Forces said they hit an underground Hamas command centre beneath the European Hospital in Khan Younis in southern Gaza.
The strikes killed at least 60 people in total, Gaza’s Health Ministry reported, including almost 50 people around Jabaliya in northern Gaza and ten more in Khan Younis.
Officials said at least nine missiles fell in the courtyard facing the entrance to the hospital.
Hamas rejected any Israeli claims about Sinwar, saying in a statement: “The Palestinian resistance alone, through its official platforms, is the authority authorised to confirm or deny what is published.”
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