World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a post on social media platform X that an Israeli air strike hit “a tent camp” inside the Al-Aqsa hospital compound in central Gaza, killing four people and wounding 17, AFP reports.

Israel’s military denied that the hospital was damaged, saying on X that one of its planes had “struck an operational Islamic Jihad command center and terrorists positioned in the courtyard of the Al-Aqsa Hospital in the area of Deir al Balah”.

Tensions have risen between Israel and its chief backer the United States over the spiralling civilian death toll, and especially over Israeli threats to send ground forces into Gaza’s crowded far-southern city of Rafah.