Gaza latest: Eight killed in Israeli strike on hospital, says health ministry

Number killed in Israeli strike on Gaza hospital rises, health ministry says

The number of people killed in an Israeli strike on the Nasser Hospital has risen to at least 15 people, according to officials at the Hamas-run health ministry.

The initial reports indicated eight people had been killed.

A number of journalists are reported to be among the dead, including an Al Jazeera reporter.

In a statement shared on social media, the ministry said that there had been two strikes.

As we reported at 9:01, the ministry said the first targeted the fourth floor of the hospital, with the second taking place as ambulance crews tried to retrieve the injured and dead.

Al Jazeera confirm journalist among those killed in Israeli strike

Al Jazeera has confirmed one of its reporters is among those killed in an Israeli strike on the Nasser Hospital.

In a statement on Instagram, the outlet said its cameraman Mohamed Salameh had been killed.

Al Jazeera also reported that in total at least three journalists were among the dead in the attack.

Palestinian health officials from the Hamas-run ministry said that others journalists were among the dead too.

The officials said that one of the journalists worked for the Reuters news agency.

At least 15 killed in Israeli airstrike on Gaza hospital, health ministry says

At least 15 people have been killed after an Israeli airstrike on a hospital in southern Gaza, the Hamas-run health ministry has said.

In a statement shared on social media, the ministry said that there had been two strikes.

The first, it said, targeted the fourth floor of the Nasser Hospital, with the second taking place as ambulance crews tried to retrieve the injured and dead.

It said there had been "many injuries". 

Both the Israeli military and the prime minister's office had no immediate comment.

The hospital in Khan Younis has withstood raids and bombardment throughout the nearly two years of war.

Israel has previously attacked hospitals, including the Nasser Hospital, saying it was targeting Hamas militants.

In June, an Israeli strike on the Nasser Hospital killed three people. At the time, Israel said it had precisely struck Hamas militants.

Israeli attack on Yemen kills six, Houthi officials say

Israeli strikes on the Yemeni capital Sanaa killed six people, according to Houthi officials.

The attack was launched yesterday in retaliation to a ballistic missile fired towards Israel, from Yemen, on Friday.

A Houthi official said today the attack killed six people and injured 86 others.

The strikes are the latest in the back-and-forth fighting between Israel and the Iran-backed Houthis, who describe their attacks as acts of solidarity with the Palestinians.

The Israeli military said the targets included a military compound housing the presidential palace, two power plants and a fuel storage site. 

"The strikes were conducted in response to repeated attacks by the Houthi terrorist regime against the State of Israel and its civilians, including the launching of surface-to-surface missiles and UAVs toward Israeli territory in recent days," the Israeli military said in a statement. 

Four Palestinians 'killed by Israeli troops' while seeking aid

Four Palestinians were killed yesterday when Israeli troops opened fire on a crowd, according to The Associated Press.

Citing the Al Awda Hospital and two witnesses, the report added they had been heading to a site run by the Israel and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in the Netzarim corridor area - a military zone.

"The gunfire was indiscriminate," said Mohamed Abed, a father of two from the Bureij refugee camp.

Abed and Aymed Sayyad, another aid-seeker, said troops opened fire when a group near the front of the crowd pushed towards the site before its scheduled opening. 

Sayyad said he and others helped two people wounded by gunshots. 

"This incident didn't occur near our site nor as described," the GHF said in an email.

More than 2,000 Palestinians have been killed and more than 13,500 wounded while seeking aid at distribution points or along convoy routes used by the United Nations and other aid groups, according to Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry.

Watch: 'The best medicine for famine is a ceasefire'

"The best medicine for this famine is a ceasefire," a spokesperson for UNICEF has told Sky News.

Tess Ingram told presenter Leah Boleto that a ceasefire is needed now "with more urgency than ever before".

Eight more malnutrition-related deaths reported

Eight more malnutrition-related deaths were reported in Gaza yesterday, the Hamas-run health ministry said.

One of the dead was said to be a child.

It brings the total number of malnutrition-related deaths during the war to 289, with 115 of them children.

It comes as famine was declared in the enclave on Friday.

The world's leading authority on food crises, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), said that famine is occurring in Gaza City and could spread south to Deir al Balah and Khan Younis by the end of next month.

Aid groups and charities have long warned that the war and Israeli restrictions on supplies entering Gaza was worsening the situation.

Israel has denied the existence of widespread hunger and it called the famine declaration an "outright lie".

The Hulk actor demands action on Gaza

Marvel star Mark Ruffalo has demanded countries take action on Gaza, calling out the likes of the UK.

The Hulk actor described the famine as "man-made" - echoing criticism heard from foreign secretary David Lammy.

In a post shared on Instagram, he said: "This is not a natural disaster. This is the result of deliberate choices made by those in power.

"World leaders: your silence is complicity. Your inaction is enabling this suffering. We cannot stand by while an entire people are starved. Humanity demands more of us. DO SOMETHING!"

-SKY NEWS