Israel has targeted Hamas leader Mohammed Sinwar in a strike on a hospital in southern Gaza on Tuesday evening, according to a senior Israeli official and two sources familiar with the matter.

An Israeli airstrike on the Gaza Strip on Tuesday killed a well-known Palestinian journalist whom it accused of working with Hamas and was recovering in hospital from an earlier strike, the territory's health ministry said.

The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) carried out the strike on the European hospital in Khan Younis, targeting “Hamas terrorists in a command and control center” located underground in the infrastructure a