Israeli warplanes have struck the Kuwait Hospital in southern Gaza, killing a doctor and injuring at least ten others, including medical staff and patients. The attack, which targeted the northern gate of the field hospital in Khan Younis’s al-Mawasi neighbourhood on Tuesday, marks the second assault on a Gaza hospital in just three days.

Dr Suhaib al-Hamss, the hospital’s director, condemned the airstrike, calling it a deliberate act against one of the few remaining lifelines for Gaza's wounded. Only days earlier, Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City had also been hit, killing and injuring more civilians, including a child who later died while being evacuated.

The Ministry of Health in Gaza accused Israel of systematically dismantling what remains of the enclave’s shattered healthcare system. In a statement, it warned that Israel’s continued attacks on hospitals are designed to paralyse emergency care and terrorise the wounded into silence.

The Palestinian Mujahideen Movement also decried the strike, pointing to international complicity and silence as enabling factors in what they describe as an ongoing genocide. “The targeting of hospitals is not an accident—it’s part of a campaign of extermination,” the group said.

Since October 2023, Israel’s repeated bombings of Gaza’s medical infrastructure have violated the very tenets of international humanitarian law, which protect hospitals and medical workers during wartime. As Gaza’s death toll surpasses 51,000, with 13 more lives taken just this morning, each strike becomes a cruel reminder that no place is safe—not even a hospital.