A suspected Israeli strike on a building near a hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on Wednesday is reported to have left many dead.

A spokesman for the Hamas-controlled health authority spoke of 20 dead and dozens injured.

The Palestinian Red Crescent ambulance service wrote on X that there were dozens of dead and injured in an attack on a residential building near the al-Amal hospital in Khan Younis.

The information could not initially be independently verified.

An Israeli army spokesperson said that the reports were being investigated.