ISRAEL struck a media tent outside a hospital in the Gaza Strip today, killing two people, including a local reporter, and wounding six other journalists, medics said. 

The Israeli military said the strike targeted a man it says was a Hamas militant posing as a journalist.

The Israelis also killed at least 28 people in separate strikes across Gaza, according to hospitals.

Israel has carried out waves of strikes across Gaza and ground forces have carved out new military zones since it ended its ceasefire with Hamas last month. 

The Israelis have blocked the import of food, fuel, medicine and humanitarian aid for over a month as it seeks to pressure Hamas to accept changes to the truce agreement they reached in January.

The strike outside Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis set the media tent ablaze, killing Yousef al-Faqawi, a reporter for the Palestine Today news website, and another man, according to the hospital.

The military said the strike targeted Hassan Eslaiah, who it said was a Hamas militant who had entered Israel and took part in the October 7 2023 attack that ignited the brutal Israeli retaliation. 

Mr Eslaiah was among six journalists who were wounded in the strike, according to the hospital.

Israel also struck tents on the edge of al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the central city of Deir al-Balah, wounding three people, according to the hospital.

Nasser Hospital said it received another 20 bodies, including eight women and five children, from separate strikes overnight and into Monday. 

Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital said two additional strikes on homes in Deir al-Balah killed eight people, including three women and three children.

Israel has raided hospitals on several occasions, accusing Hamas, without evidence, of using them for military purposes, allegations denied by hospital staff.

Since unilaterally breaking the ceasefire, Israel has dramatically expanded its footprint in the Gaza Strip. 

It now controls more than 50 per cent of the territory and is squeezing Palestinians into shrinking wedges of land.

The largest area the army controls is around the Gaza border, where the military has burned down Palestinian homes, farmland and infrastructure. 

The land Israel holds, which includes a corridor that divides the territory’s north from south, could be used for wielding long-term control, human rights groups say.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said last week that even after Hamas is defeated, Israel will keep security control in Gaza and push Palestinians to leave.

Many experts have described Mr Netanyahu’s plan as ethnic cleansing, a war crime.