Israel said it had attacked a command and control center at the European Hospital in Khan Yunis.

As a result of Israeli attacks, the last cancer hospital in the embattled Gaza Strip has closed, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). The European Hospital in Khan Yunis, in the south of the sealed-off coastal zone, was severely damaged in the attacks on May 13 and is no longer operational, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus wrote on X. Israel's military had described a "precise strike against Hamas terrorists in a command and control center" beneath the hospital.

The information could not be independently verified. "The closure of the hospital has eliminated vital services such as neurosurgery, cardiac care, and cancer treatment that are not available elsewhere in Gaza," the WHO chief wrote. Hospitals must be protected. "They must never be militarized or attacked."

The European Hospital was "one of the last lifelines in the Gaza Strip's devastated health system," wrote Doctors Without Borders. Nasser Hospital is now the last functioning clinic in Khan Yunis. The Israeli army also attacked this hospital on the same day and also called it an attack on Hamas terrorists. It accused the Islamist Palestinian organization of misusing hospitals in the Gaza Strip for terrorist purposes.