Hamas has condemned the Israeli assassination of its political bureau member Ismail Barhoum in a strike on Nasser Hospital, calling it further evidence of the regime’s ongoing record of terrorism.

Israeli forces assassinated senior Hamas political bureau member Ismail Barhoum in an airstrike on Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza, the fifth assassinated non-combatant politburo member in the past week.

Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP), a UK-based charity, has warned that Gaza’s largest partially functioning hospital will likely shut down “within less than 48 hours”, amid fuel shortage due to Israel’s blockade.

The Israeli military has murdered 70 Palestinians, mostly children in Khan Yunis.

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The body count is 400 and rising. The number of Palestinians buried in mass graves at the Al-Shifa and Nasser hospitals in Khan Younis.

Hamas reacts amid discovery of more bodies from mass graves created by Israeli forces at a hospital in southern Gaza, which is enduring a genocidal Israeli war.