UK monitoring reports of 'apparent strike on hospital in Gaza': Foreign Office

By Aysu Bicer

LONDON (AA) - The UK Foreign Office on Tuesday said the government is monitoring reports of an "apparent strike on a hospital in Gaza."

According to local media reports, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will visit Israel this week.

Downing Street has declined to comment on the prime minister’s travel plans.

More than 500 people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on the hospital, Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra told Anadolu.

Footage showed bodies scattered across the hospital grounds.

Thousands of Palestinians were at the hospital when the building came under bombardment, according to an Anadolu reporter.