Two Israeli bombings against Nasser Hospital, have caused at least 20 fatal victims on Monday, including five journalists, according to the Ministry of Health of the Palestinian enclave. In a statement that has arrived hours later, the Army of Israel has confirmed that its troops have fired against “the area” of the hospital, located in Jan Yunis, and has announced that an investigation will open “as soon as possible”.
The military note adds that the army “regrets” any damage that the incident has caused to individuals “not involved [en el conflicto]”And he assured that Israel” does not attack journalists “for the mere fact of being. 88% of cases in which the Israeli army opens an internal investigation for alleged crimes or abuses committed by their soldiers in Gaza end up closed or unresolved, as published by the NGO with headquarters in London Action on armed violence.
Israeli troops have killed a total of 10 journalists since they started, where they climb their offensive with the official objective of weakening Hamas. Since October 2023, when the war began, Israeli attacks have caused the death of more than 240 journalists in the Strip, according to the Palestinian journalists union.
Meanwhile, humanitarian aid continues to be charged. The Ministry of Health has reported Monday that another 11 people have died for that cause in 24 hours, including two children. That raises the number of deaths by starvation from the beginning of the war to 300, most since last July. On Friday, and multiple leaders of that organization have raised the tone against Israel demanding that they allow the entry of food into the territory.
At the same time, Israeli soldiers have increased on Monday the rhythm of their operations in the largest urban core of the enclave. Videos disseminated by networks of local journalists and recorded in Zeitún or Sabra, two of the main districts of Ciudad de Gaza, show corpses in very poor condition and rescue operations frustrated by the weight of the concrete while the sound of war airplanes is perceived.
The Israeli authorities announced this month the beginning of an operation to take control of Ciudad de Gaza, the capital of the Strip, in which they estimate that Hamas brings together the center of their administrative and military power and where they suspect that it hides a good part of the hostages. The Plan has required and will accumulate the mobilization of a total of 130,000 over the next months.
An Israeli television channel assured Sunday that, he has defended his preference again for abandoning the offensive against Ciudad de Gaza and approved a truce with Hamas that releases the hostages. “There is a proposal to agree on the table,” Zamir said according to Israeli television in reference last week. “To occupy Ciudad de Gaza puts the lives of the captives in great danger”, so “now is the decision of [el primer ministro, Benjamín] Netanyahu, ”Zamir said.
Last week, Netanyahu said he had ordered the resumption of conversations to free the hostages. Basem Naim, high position of Hamas, has declared this newspaper on Monday that there are no negotiations at the moment. During the last hours, some information suggests that indirect encounters between Israel and the Palestinian militia.
The forum of the families of the hostages and missing has called to start on Monday night the mobilizations convened for this Tuesday in Israel, which are planned mass, during a day of general strike. On August 17, the call for another strike during the almost two years of war, increasing the pressure on Netanyahu for the signing of a fire.
The British news agency and Catarí television Al Jazeera have announced that two of the journalists who have died at Nasser Hospital worked for them. This is Hossam al Masri and Mohammed Salama, respectively. This Monday’s attack has also killed Moaz Abu Taha, reporter of American television NBC, Mariam Abu Daqa, autonomous journalist – and mother – who had collaborated with The Associated Press, and Ahmed Abu Aziz, who worked for Quds Feed Network.
Second bombing
The Palestinian journalist Hind Khoumary has explained in Al Jazeera since Deir El Balah, a town near Jan Yunis, which a suicide drone would have exploited on the hospital roof when two people, including a reporter of the same chain, were in place. While fighting the crying, Khoudary has narrated the arrival of a second bombing when reporters and rescuers went to the place.
Videos shared by witnesses show several people, including some dressed in a rescue uniform, on the outer stairs of the Nasser hospital that lead to the roof in nervous attitude after the first bombing. Suddenly, the smoke caused by a second explosion makes them disappear. When the smoke dissipates, images recorded from inside the staircase show multiple inert bodies covered with blood and dust.
The Doctor of the Hospital Intensive Care Unit, knowing when Asmar, explained in Arab media that the second bombing occurred at the height of the plant that hosts the UCI and operations rooms. “Two or three” doctors who were in place as students, he says, were “unrecognizable and disintegrated in pieces.” “We do not understand what is the next thing that can happen,” he said.
When the attack occurred, the doctor was doing the morning round in the UCI room: “I can see the horror in patient’s faces, which are supposed to be in an internationally protected place.” As the Asmar has denounced that in the almost two years of war Israeli troops have bombarded the hospital four times and that they have occupied it in two others. “There are patients who need treatment who are fleeing hospitals because they fear they are bombarded,” he lamented.
Many journalists in the strip work near hospitals with the intention of getting access to electricity and the Internet, in a territory whose infrastructure is devastated after two years of Israeli bombings. They often spend the nights in group to feel safer, establishing stores in the accesses of the medical centers that serve as an office. This system also allows them to depart from their loved ones to the frequent Israeli attacks against reporters.
The bombing against that hospital occurs two weeks after the Israeli attack that killed five informants in the accesses of the Shifa hospital in Gaza City. The Israeli army recognized the attack, referring to doubtful evidence that one of the murdered reporters, Anas al Sharif, was a member of Hamas. Israel did not refer to the other four journalists, implying that they were collateral victims of the attack against Sharif.
The last missiles that the Army commanded by Zamir has shot at hospitals in Jan Yunis or in Gaza City are part of the constant violations of international humanitarian law by Israel. The Geneva Convention grants special protection from both journalists and hospitals, and forces the parties in conflict (in this case, Israel and Hamas) to protect them and facilitate their work.
In 23 months of offensive, Israeli attacks have totally or partially destroyed 94% of medical centers, according to the World Health Organization, and have killed or detained more than 1,940 health workers, according to the Ministry of Health of the Strip.
