Hamas has denounced an Israeli airstrike that killed six Palestinians and wounded more than 20 others at Nasser Medical Complex in southern Gaza as yet another war crime, urging the international community to fulfill its responsibility by taking concrete measures to help end the genocide.

Hazem Qassem, the spokesman for the Palestinian resistance movement, said in a statement on Thursday that the bombing of the facility west of Khan Younis and the targeting of patients and medical staff there “constitute a full-fledged war crime and unprecedented terrorist behavior.”

Qassem stressed that Israel’s insistence on committing crimes and crossing all humanitarian red lines by targeting hospitals is “a direct result of the international community's failure to hold the criminal enemy leaders accountable.”

He also held the Board of Peace and its director-general, Nickolay Mladenov, responsible for the terrorist crime “due to their silence on Israeli crimes and their complete inability to compel it to stop them."

“We call on Arab and Muslim countries participating in the [so-called] Board of Peace to take a serious and firm stance that prevents the criminal enemy from exploiting their participation in the Board as cover for its crimes,” the Hamas spokesperson added.

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He noted that Israel does not care about the efforts of the mediators, the guarantor states, and acts without restraint or accountability.

The status quo “places a great responsibility on all these parties to take real and effective action to stop the ongoing Israeli violations, and ensure the occupying regime’s compliance with the [Gaza] ceasefire agreement,” Qassem underscored.

Gaza’s Civil Defense said the Israeli strike targeted the second floor of Nasser Medical Complex.

The hospital’s director said the strike caused extensive damage to the intensive care and surgical wards.

The Israeli military claimed it was targeting a Hamas member at the hospital.

Earlier, Israeli attacks killed seven other Palestinians across the Gaza Strip.

Since October 2023, Israel has launched a genocidal war on Gaza that has killed more than 74,600 Palestinians and injured nearly 176,000 others. Approximately 90% of civilian infrastructure has been destroyed as well.

Israeli breaches of a Gaza ceasefire agreement, which went into effect in October 2025, have resulted in the killing of at least 1,622 Palestinians and injuries to more than 5,878 others, according to data from Gaza's Health Ministry.