Israeli strikes kill two, destroy medical warehouses in Gaza
• Hospital says dialysis medicines, vital supplies lost in strike
• Outpatient clinic, two other stores also damaged; tent shelters housing up to 70 people destroyed
DEIR: Israel’s military on Saturday killed two Palestinians in Gaza and destroyed two warehouses near a hospital that were said to be storing medicine in separate strikes, amid uncertainty over whether Israel has accepted a deal reached with Hamas over the group’s disarmament.
In southern Gaza, an Israeli airstrike destroyed two warehouses used to store medicine by Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, the Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza said.
Several hours after the strike, the Israeli military said it had struck a Hamas hideout near the hospital used to store weapons. The strikes were directed by the Shin Bet intelligence agency, but the military did not disclose evidence to support the claim.
The hospital said the warehouses stored essential medical supplies used to treat kidney failure patients undergoing dialysis, along with other materials like gauze used in wound care.
Two other warehouses storing medicine and the hospital’s outpatient clinic were damaged.
“The Israeli occupation has committed a heinous crime,” Khalil al-Daqran, a doctor at the hospital, said of the strike. “In the middle of the night, [the military] targeted a warehouse containing medical supplies for the hospital, and the occupation completely destroyed it.”
Fatima Sharab, 34, a displaced Palestinian mother of two living in a tent near the warehouses, said the strike destroyed tents housing 60 to 70 people who had been sheltering there to be close to the hospital.
In central Gaza, Palestinian health officials said two Palestinians were killed in the Sheikh Radwan area of Gaza City in an Israeli airstrike.
Published in Dawn, August 2nd, 2026
