Israeli Gaza strike kills 20, including five reporters
Israel hit the Nasser Hospital in the south of the Gaza Strip and killed at least 20 people, including Reuters, Associated Press, Al Jazeera, and five journalists working for others.
According to Palestinian health officials, Hussam Al-Masri, Reuters contractor Cameman, was killed by Reuters near a live broadcasting position on a top floor just below the hospital in Khan Younis.
Authorities and witnesses in the hospital said that Israel had hit the site for the second time, and that other journalists and rescue workers running to the scene to help.
Murdered journalists, Associated Press and other sales points for free employee Mariam Abu Dagga, Qatar -based broadcaster Al Jazeera, Moaz Abu Taha, Moaz Abu Taha, Reuters and Ahmed Abu Aziz contributed from time to time.
Photographer Hatem Khaled de Reuters contractor was injured.
Israeli Army Israeli Defense Forces accepted that the Nasser Hospital hit the area and said that the general staff chief has ordered an investigation.
IDF “damages unattended individuals and does not target journalists in this way. IDF, IDF troops while maintaining the safety of IDF is taking action to damage unattended individuals as possible,” he said.
“A Reuters spokesman said in a statement,” Reuters, a contractor for the cameraman Hussam Al-Masri’nin Khan Younis’deki Nasser Hospital in Gaza this morning we were ruined to find out. The contractor was injured. “
“We are looking for more information and we asked the authorities in Gaza and Israel to help us to get urgent medical aid for Hatem.”
The AP said that learning the deaths of Abu Dagga and other journalists is “shocked and upset,” and added that Abu Dagga is based on the hospital for the scope that includes stories about hunger and malnutrition.
The Palestinian Journalists Union condemned Israel for strikes and said that “to terrorize journalists and prevent them from fulfilling their professional duties to expose their crimes to the world,” said it was “open war against free media”.
According to the Palestinian journalists union, more than 240 Palestinian journalists have been killed by the Israeli fire in Gaza since the war on 7 October 2023.
Two weeks ago, Israel killed the leading Al Jazeera correspondent Anas Al-Sharif and four other journalists on strike.
In this attack, Israel acknowledged that he was targeting the Sheriff and said he was working in the Hamas Militant group, which the publisher rejected.
Witnesses, Monday’s second strike rescue workers, journalists and others after the first attack took place after running, he said.
Masri, a Reuters live video Feed from the hospital, which suddenly closed at the first strike.
Reuters and other news providers offer live video broadcasts to world -class media organizations during major news events to show the stage in real time.
During the Gaza conflict, Reuters often had a bait from the Nasser Hospital, and Nasser, who was shot for the last few weeks, was taking daily feed from the hospital position.
Israel has prevented all foreign journalists from entering the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the war in 2023.
During the war, reports from the region were produced by Palestinian journalists for many years for international media organizations, including Tel services, many of which are Reuters and Associated Press.
