Israeli strikes on Gaza hospital kill 20 people, including 5 journalists
Beirut – According to the Palestinian health authorities, the World Health Organization and the hospital, on Monday, a hospital in Southern Gaza killed at least 20 people, including five Israeli strikes, four health workers and civil defense workers.
Two weeks after Israeli strikes kill six journalists in Enclave, attacks add to a gang that sees that Gaza has become the most deadly conflict for media employees and health personnel.
The strikes targeted the top floor of the Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, the first attack came after 10 minutes after 10 hours, a live broadcast from a local news channel, the journalists shot nearby and civil defense workers passing through the wreck, the second missile hit away from the wreckage.
“Civil Defense Gone! [Israel] He killed people! “A journalist shouts from Al-Ghad TV while the stage is swallowed in Duman and rubble.
The other video taken in the medical complex is accompanied by a nursing station of a bloody cameraman, while depicts a dust -covered man who drives herself away from the explosion. Hadil Abu Zaid, a British doctor with a medical assistance for the Palestinians who visited the intensive care unit, described the scene as “unbearable” in a statement.
The Gaza Ministry of Health condemned the attacks and described them as the continuation of the systematic destruction of the health system and the continuation of the genocide ”.
X said in a statement, the World Health Organization Chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, “already careful patient patient patients, including 50 people were injured in the attacks, including, he said. The hospital’s emergency service, inpatient ward and surgical unit hosting the main building was shot, he said.
“As people in Gaza died of starvation, he is even more injured by repeated attacks on health services,” he wrote. “We can’t say this loud enough: Stop the attacks on health services. Now the ceasefire!”
Activists in Gaza said that journalists usually gathered on the upper floor of the hospital and outside the emergency stairs outside to get a telephone signal. Gaza Health officials and Palestinian journalists’ union, five journalists were killed in the attack, he said.
Secondly, Mariam Abu Dagga, a freelance -employed journalist for Associated Press, described the massacred media employees as; Hussam Al-Masri, the contractor cameraman with Reuters; Moaz Abu Taha is a freelance worker who occasionally works with Reuters; Ahmed Abu Aziz, who reported for the Middle East eye; And Al Jazeera Cameraman Mohammad Salam.
News Agency, Reuters’ another contract photographer Hatem Khaled was injured.
The Palestinian Journalists’ Union condemned the murder of journalists and said in a statement “Surely [Israel] Is it fighting for free media. “
The Israeli army confirmed that the strike has carried out the strike and that it regrets any damage to unattended individuals and did not target journalists in this way ”and would make“ first investigation ”.
Later, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a statement that described the attack as a “tragic mishap”.
“Military authorities are conducting a comprehensive investigation,” he said.
“Our war is with Hamas terrorists.”
Right groups accused Israel of performing a pair of touch strikes that a second strike first followed a few minutes later. During this pause, rescue workers and medical personnel will be collected. The July investigation by the Israeli News Offts +972 magazine and the local call found that double touch strikes were accepted as a standard procedure while operating in Gaza by the Israeli army.
Strikes on Monday come with the increase in international criticism for the Campaign Campaign in Gaza, which led to the death of hundreds of health personnel and media employees for the last 22 months and carried out routine attacks on health facilities and infrastructure.
Israel insists that Hamas militants are hidden in or near health facilities or hiding themselves as medical staff, civil defense teams and journalists. It rarely proved these charges.
In June, a group of NGOs, including International Amnesty International, Human Rights Monitoring Organization, Doctors without Borders and others, said that since October 7, 2023, more than 1,500 health workers and 460 aid workers have killed about 250 people after attacking Southern Israel and killed about 250 people. Health officials in Gaza increased the Palestinian death, the majority of civilians, to approximately 63,000.
Israel prevented international journalists from entering Gaza, except for the tours that were strictly controlled by the army. Meanwhile, local reporters are routinely demanding Hamas as those who apologize or operators. Journalists Protection Committee said that at least 192 journalists have been killed in Gaza since the war began in an installment published before the attacks on Monday. Health authorities in Gaza damaged 244.
