{"id":269316,"date":"2026-08-29T17:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T17:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/269316\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T17:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T17:10:10","slug":"israeli-army-bombs-hospital-kills-three-in-gaza-strip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/269316\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli army bombs hospital, kills three in Gaza Strip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n      Israel says it targeted a Hamas commander at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital as Palestinian officials reported three deaths from strikes across Gaza. [GETTY]<\/p>\n<p>Israel&#8217;s military struck the compound of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newarab.com\/news\/israeli-clinic-gaza-children-draws-mixed-reactions\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gaza <\/a>hospital on Saturday, claiming it was targeting a Hamas commander, while the territory&#8217;s health officials said Israeli strikes elsewhere killed three people.<\/p>\n<p>It is the latest deadly Israeli violation of a US-backed ceasefire that took effect in October 2025, with Israel killing hundreds of Palestinians in the devastated Gaza Strip despite the truce.<\/p>\n<p>Israel claimed to have struck a Hamas commander who &#8220;was hiding within the compound&#8221; of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the central city of<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newarab.com\/news\/israel-army-breaches-gaza-border-razes-farming-area\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Deir al-Balah<\/a>, but was unable to immediately confirm if he had been killed.<\/p>\n<p>It said the commander, who it did not name, and was hit in a structure adjacent to hospital buildings.<\/p>\n<p>The hospital reported that three people had been injured in an Israeli strike near a warehouse close to the maternity ward inside the medical facility.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day, Al-Aqsa Hospital reported one person killed by Israeli fire in the eastern area of the city.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli military said it was checking the reports.<\/p>\n<p>In Gaza City, the civil defence agency said an Israeli strike near a roundabout in the Tel al-Hawa neighbourhood killed two people and injured several others.<\/p>\n<p>Israel has kept striking Gaza and its forces have made further inroads despite a US-brokered ceasefire announced in October.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli operations in Gaza have killed at least 1,313 people since the ceasefire came into effect, according to the Palestinian territory&#8217;s health ministry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israel says it targeted a Hamas commander at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital as Palestinian officials reported three deaths from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[980,2254,5656,1411,7070,37],"class_list":["post-269316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-airstrikes","tag-gaza-strip","tag-gaza-war","tag-hamas","tag-hospital","tag-israel"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117179909688404145","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}