The hospital has triggered its southern strip since it claimed the lives of five journalists, three of whom worked with Al Jazeera and Reuters and Associated Press, with Prime Minister Benjamin expressing “sadness” for the “tragic accident”.
The raids, which claimed the lives of 15 other people according to civil protection in the Gaza Strip, were condemned by the UN and the governments of countries such as France, Germany and Britain, who have called on journalists.
In her analysis, the Guardian explains the reasons why this blow is not a “tragic accident”. In particular, the newspaper leaves that while the Israeli Armed Forces (IDF) – which have killed about 200 journalists since the start of the Gaza war – hastened to argue that the death of civilians was due to “mistake”, the reality shows that it was a political and not political practice.
What makes the incident even more serious is that each of its individual elements, targeting a functional hospital, the murder of journalists and rescuers, the killing of wounded who already ill, could in itself be a war crime.
Israel has targeted hospitals and medical staff repeatedly, with dead and injured. However, the reckless tactic of “double attack”, where IDFs are hitting the same spot for the second time, as soon as rescuers and citizens arrive, is increasingly applied.
A joint research in July from the Israeli magazine +972 and the Local Call website revealed that IDFs are now systematically second strikes close to initial attacks, deliberately targeting rescuers and those trying to save lives. “If a supreme commander is blowing, he follows a second to prevent rescue efforts,” a +972 source said. “They kill them. They hit again, on them. “
Shock and sadness
Al Jazeeera, the Qatar Emirate television network, the Reuters, a Canadian News Agency, and the Associated Press, an American News Agency, who lost a partner at Han Junis Nasser Hospital, shocked yesterday.
The Five Journalists: Hosham al -Masri, a partner of the Reuters agency, a Nasser Hospital worker in Han Junis, southern strip of Gaza, Mariam Abu Daga, for which the Associated Press reported that he was working with an independent Photo Salama, for which Al Jazeera said he was working for the network, Ahmad Abu Aziz
“,” Mr Netanyahu said in a statement yesterday, assuring that an army investigation would be conducted. “The war we are fighting is against the Hamas terrorists. Our legitimate goals are to beat Hamas and bring our hostages back home. “
Optical material of the French Agency Immediately after the blows depicts smoke that rises in the sky and debris outside the hospital. Palestinians ran to help the victims, transported bloodthirsty bodies into the health structure.
Live on air… Israel bombs civil defense teams as they try to retrieve the body of journalist Hossam Al-Masri, killed in an Israeli strike on Nasser Hospital.
Ongoing crimes before the eyes of the entire world.– Ramy Abdu | Rami Abdo (@ramabdu)
Reuters clarified that at the time of the first strike, his partner broadcast a direct video from the hospital, which was interrupted after the bombing.
Wrapped in funeral savannah, with his bulletproof vests that recorded “Press” on them.
The Israeli Armed Forces acknowledged that they had a hit “in the Nasser Hospital” and added that the target was not “journalists as such”.
According to the Committee on the Protection of Journalists (CPJs) and Borders Without Borders (RSF) in this war, 200 journalists have lost their lives.
According to Civil Protection spokesman Mahmoud Basal, the hospital was hit twice, initially by an unmanned air supply vehicle, then by air as victims were removed.
During civil protection, at least 13 people were killed in an Israeli fire elsewhere in the Gaza Strip, 75% of which is controlled by the Israeli army against Israeli sources.
Beyond the bombings, the population of the Thylakos is facing a risk of starvation, according to the UN.
Taking into account the restrictions imposed on the media by Israel and the difficulties of access to the field, the French Agency says it is unable to verify the reports and information announced by any side. Foreign journalists are not allowed to enter the Gaza Strip and international media are based on Palestinian journalists.
Reuters said his staff is “overwhelmed by Hosham al Masri’s death and injury to another partner, Hatem Halland” in the hospital bombing.
The Associated Press expressed “shock and sadness” over the death of Mariam Daga, an independent 33 -year -old photo writer who worked with him.
Al Jazeera condemned the death of journalist, photographer and cameraman Mohammad Salama, accusing the Israeli army of “silent the truth”.
Two more Palestinian journalists, Moz Abu Taha and Ahmad Abu Aziz, were killed in Nasser’s bombing, according to a Palestinian journalist trade union. The collective body of the Palestinian media workers has also announced that yesterday another journalist -the sixth in a day -, Hassan Duhanan, was killed by an Israeli fire in Al Mauasi (south).
Philip Lazarin, head of the UN service for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), denounced the “inaction of the world”.
Ravina Samdasani, a spokesman for the UNHCR for human rights, called on the international community to take action, reminding that journalists and hospitals should never be targeted.
The Israeli government security council is expected to meet tonight in Jerusalem under the presidency of Mr Netanyahu, according to an official source. The families’ forum, the main body of representation of hostages that continue to be held in the Gaza Strip for a 690th day, has called on a day of national mobilization on the sidelines of the meeting.
