The European Hospital was filmed in July 2024.
hIsraeli Prime Minister Netanyahu said on Wednesday that Armas' de facto leader in Gaza, Mohammed Sinwar, was killed in a recent air strike.
Netanyahu said last week that the leader may have killed the leader in a large number of air strikes carried out on May 13 at the European hospital in Khan Younis.
During the strike, Israeli sources told CNN that it targeted Sinwar, the brother of Hamas former leader Yahya Sinwar.
Yahya Sinwar was killed by an air strike in Gaza in October 2024 and is considered the main formation of the Hamas-led attack held in Israel on October 7, 2023, with more than 1,200 people killed and more than 250 people taken hostages.
The Prime Minister confirmed the death of Mohammed Sinwar in an air strike by Khan Younis in a speech at the parliament of the Israeli parliament on May 28, 600 days after the October 7 attack and the Israel-Hamas war began. Hamas has not commented on Netanyahu's claims yet.
Mohammed Sinwar is the latest Hamas chief and highest number to be killed by Israel since the war began.
Last August, the IDF confirmed that they killed Hamas military leader Mohammed Deif during a strike last month. A July 14, 2024 strike targeted Deif, attacking a displaced camp. It reportedly killed 90 people, including children.
A few days before the confirmation of Deif's death, Hamas announced the death of Ismail Haniyeh, the then political chief of Hamas. Haniyeh was killed during the exact strike at his residence in Tehran, Iran.
On May 13, after an air strike at the Khan Yunis European Hospital, WHO director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the hospital was no longer accessible. According to Gaza Civil Defense Agency, 28 people were reportedly killed in air strikes.
Israel has launched a strike on medical facilities across Gaza, and the IDF claims Hamas uses these areas to operate. The IDF said in a statement on X that the Khan Younis strike “destroyed the underground terrorist infrastructure of Hamas terrorist groups in European hospitals.”
Palestinian Medical Assistance (MAP) said on May 28 that these strikes on medical facilities are part of the “systematic demolition of Gaza’s already fragile health system”, in a press release.
The statement details that in the past two weeks, five hospitals have been directly attacked, resulting in four non-functional ones. As of May 23, more than 90% of health services in Gaza have become completely non-functional or partially functional.
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