Israeli air strikes on a Gaza hospital compound Tuesday killed and injured at least 500 people, the health ministry in the Hamas-run Palestinian territory said.
"Two hundred to 300 displaced people killed in occupation (Israeli) strikes on the yard" of the Ahli Arab hospital in central Gaza, the ministry said.
"Hundreds of victims are still under the rubble," it added.
The media office of Gaza's Hamas government described the attack as a "war crime".
"The hospital was housing hundreds of sick and wounded, and people forcibly displaced from their homes" because of other strikes, a statement said.
An Israeli military spokesman would not immediately confirm its forces bombed the hospital.
"We will look into it ... the strike happened just a short while ago, " Daniel Hagari said in a televised press briefing.
Around 3,000 people have been killed in Israeli air strikes across the Gaza Strip since the war erupted on October 7.
More than 1,400 people in Israel have been killed, the majority gunned down by Hamas militants who crossed from Gaza and attacked border communities.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas declared three days of mourning following the bombardment, according to state media.
The militant group said: "The horrific massacre carried out by the Zionist occupation in the Gaza City's Al Ahly Hospital which left hundreds of casualties, most of them displaced families, patients, children and women, is a crime of genocide that once again reveals the ugly face of this criminal enemy and its fascist and terrorist government.
"This also exposes the American and Western support for this criminal occupation."
It called for "immediate" intervention by the "international community and the Arab and Islamic countries".
Should the claims be confirmed, the attack would be the deadliest Israeli air strike in the five wars fought since 2008.
News Source-Sky News, The Daily Star,
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