Israeli strikes kill eight Palestinians across Gaza as hospitals face looming generator shutdown crisis.

Breaking News

• Four Palestinians were killed west of Khan Yunis; four others were killed in a Jabaliya camp strike.
• Israeli forces fire heavily toward the Zaytoun neighborhood and detonate a robot device in northern Gaza.
• Health Ministry records 591 killed and 1,598 wounded since the October 2025 ceasefire.
• Al-Shifa director warns generator shutdown would paralyze Gaza hospitals.
• Intensive care, dialysis, and neonatal units face immediate risk due to fuel shortages.

Eight Killed in Simultaneous Strikes

Eight Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks targeting both southern and northern areas of the Gaza Strip early Sunday, Al-Mayadeen reported,

According to local Palestinian media, four victims arrived at Nasser Medical Complex after an airstrike hit an area near the Turkish slaughterhouse west of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip.

In northern Gaza, four more Palestinians were killed when Israeli warplanes struck a tent sheltering displaced civilians near the Telecommunications Junction west of Jabaliya.

The strikes coincided with heavy gunfire by Israeli forces east of the Zaytoun neighborhood southeast of Gaza City, part of continued escalation targeting residential areas and surroundings of displacement shelters.

Israeli occupation forces also detonated an explosive robot device in the Sheikh Zayed area in northern Gaza.

According to Gaza’s Health Ministry, since the ceasefire agreement of October 11, 2025, at least 591 Palestinians have been killed, 1,598 wounded, and 726 bodies recovered from rubble.

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Hospitals Warn of “Places of Death”

Medical authorities in Gaza warned that the health sector faces imminent collapse due to severe fuel shortages threatening hospital electricity generators.

Dr. Mohammed Abu Salmiya, director of Al-Shifa Medical Complex, said the shutdown of generators would turn hospitals into “places of death, not treatment.”

He explained that generators have operated continuously since October 7, 2023, without alternative electricity sources, while entry of oil and spare parts remains restricted, and fuel arrives only in extremely limited quantities.

The crisis already affects multiple facilities. At Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, services are at risk of suspension due to the failure of the two main generators and a lack of fuel. Abu Salmiya said the situation applies to Al-Shifa, Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, and all hospitals across Gaza.

A shutdown would paralyze operating rooms, intensive care units, neonatal incubators, laboratories, blood banks, and dialysis machines, placing thousands of wounded and patients at immediate risk.

Hospitals also face severe shortages of medicines, medical supplies, and ICU beds, alongside rising oxygen demand amid heavy dust conditions in Gaza City.

No medical equipment — including generators, imaging devices, or MRI machines — has entered Gaza since the ceasefire, and available medications cover only about 20% of needs. Cancer patients currently lack chemotherapy treatments, while many necessary surgeries cannot be performed.

Khalil al-Daqran, spokesperson for Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, warned that the coming hours are critical as remaining fuel cannot sustain generator operation for long. The hospital relies entirely on alternative power due to electricity cuts, putting intensive care and emergency patients in immediate danger.

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Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, which began on October 7, 2023, has killed more than 72,000 Palestinians and wounded over 171,000 others, most of them women and children.

Around 90% of Gaza’s civilian infrastructure has been destroyed, and thousands remain missing under rubble while large parts of the population continue to live in displacement conditions amid severe shortages of food, water, and medical care.

(PC, Palestinian Media, Shifa Hospital, Al-Mayadeen, QNN)