Key Facts

• The overnight strike hit a building with surgery wards at Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza.
• Medics said two missiles struck the building and 20 people were wounded; the hospital’s surgery department was put out of service.
• Israel’s military said it targeted Muhammad Abu Ismail, whom it identified as the commander of Hamas’s Khan Younis Brigade, and alleged Hamas used the hospital complex; Hamas denied using the hospital as a base.
• Those killed at the hospital included surgeon Rezik Abushira and a 13-year-old boy, according to Gaza authorities.
• Two Palestinians were killed in an Israeli air strike on a car in Gaza City, and another was killed by Israeli gunfire in the Bureij refugee camp, medics said.
• A nine-month-old baby died from the cold as severe weather affected displaced families in Gaza.
• Heavy rain had flooded tens of thousands of tents the previous week, and five people, including three children, died when an embankment collapsed onto tents.