Israel has faced global condemnation for back-to-back strikes on the biggest hospital in southern Gaza this week, which killed at least 22 people, including health workers, emergency response crews and five journalists.

Israeli forces killed 22 people, including five journalists, in two strikes on Gaza's Nasser Hospital, drawing global condemnation and prompting a rare admission of regret from the Israeli government.

Four journalists have been killed after an Israeli strike on a hospital in southern Gaza, according to the Associated Press and Reuters. At least 19 people in total died in the strike on Nasser Hospital, in Khan Younis, on Monday, Zaher al-Waheidi, the head of Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry's records department, told AP.