A Israeli hospital explosion in the center of the Gaza Strip The result killed at least 200 people on Tuesday while air attacks on the Gaza Strip continued and many civilians took refuge in medical centers to protect themselves from bombs, the Islamist Hamas movement, which controls the enclave, condemned.

“At least 200 dead due to Israeli bombings” at Al Ahli Hospital, one of the medical centers in Gaza City, Gaza’s Health Ministry said in a statement, which also confirmed hundreds of injuries.

According to the Gaza news agency Sanad, citing official sources, The death toll could exceed 500.

It is the attack with the highest death toll since war broke out between Palestinian militias in Gaza and Israel on October 7, killing more than 3,000 people in the Gaza Strip and 1,400 inside Israel.

According to local sources, at the sanatorium – a Christian institution – About 2,000 people fled the explosions. After evacuating their homes in recent days, a similar dynamic has been observed in most hospitals in the sector.

“The terrible massacre carried out by the Zionist occupation” Regarding the hospital, “which claimed hundreds of victims, this is a crime of genocide,” Hamas said in a statement.

He said most of the dead and wounded were “displaced families, patients, children and women” who had taken refuge there in recent days.

EFE consulted with the Israeli army about the incident, which said it was looking into what happened.

For its part, its chief military spokesman, Daniel Hagari, told the Israeli press that it is currently unknown whether this was an attack by Israeli fighter jets.