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Videos posted to social media last night appear to show the chaos following a shell hitting the Nasser Hospital's maternity ward in Khan Younis.

According to a statement from Gaza's Ministry of Health, an Israeli artillery shell hit the hospital but did not explode. Dina Abu Mohsen, a child recovering from an amputation, was killed in the strike, said Dr. Ashraf Al-Qudra, a ministry spokesperson.

NBC News is not able to verify the ministry's statement to confirm the source of the strike. The IDF said that upon receiving reports about damage, an initial review was carried out. "At this stage, it is not possible to determine with certainty what was the source of the damage to the hospital," it said in a statement.

NBC News was able to verify that two videos posted to Instagram were filmed in Nasser Hospital, though they appear to have been edited. Large groups of people can be heard screaming and crying as they run for safety in one video that was posted by Al Jazeera journalist Hamdan Dahdouh.

The video contains graphic images of bloodied Palestinians, including children and an elderly woman, a group of men kicking down a door to help injured people into another room, and a crowd gathering as medics wrap a child in a blanket before moving him out to get help.

A gaping hole in the hospital's wall can be seen in Dahdouh's video as well as the second video verified by NBC News, posted by Saleh Ajafarawi.

Ajafarawi can be seen filming in the same room as Dahdouh from a different vantage point, identifying the location as Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis. At one point in the video, a small boy is held back by adults as he cries, "My grandmother is inside, my grandmother is inside!"

NBC News was able to geolocate another video Ajafarawi posted to his Instagram story, which showed the exterior of Nasser Hospital after it was allegedly struck.

Neither Ajafarawi nor Dahdouh was immediately available for comment to NBC News.

Dina Abu Mohsen had previously survived a strike that killed her father, mother and two siblings but lost her leg in the incident, according to Al-Qudra's statement. She dreamed of being a doctor, the statement said, a wish her parents had for her.

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