The Israeli double -tour strikes at Nasser Hospital in Southern Gaza killed at least 15 people on Monday, including four journalists, the Gaza Ministry of Health said in a statement.
Dead media professionals were appointed Hussam Al-Masri, a cameraman working for the Reuters news agency; Mohammed Salama, photojournalist by Al Jazeera; Mariam Abu Daqqa (alias Mariam Dagga), a journalist working with several media, including Associated Press, and Moaz Abu Taha, a journalist working for the NBC network.
The ministry said there had been two strikes. The first had targeted the fourth floor of the hospital and was followed by a second strike which struck the same place that the first speakers rushed to recover the injured and the dead, and the journalists followed to capture what had happened.
Photographer Hatem Khaled, who was also a Reuters entrepreneur, was also named injured.
Reuters confirmed Al-Masri’s death and Khaled’s injuries in a statement.
“We are devastated to learn the death of the entrepreneur of Reuters, Hussam Al-Masri, and injuries to another of our entrepreneurs, Hatem Khaled, in strikes from Nasser Hospital in Gaza today.” He was reading.
“We send our deepest condolences and thoughts to the family and relatives of Hussam. We are urgently looking for more information and asked the authorities in Gaza and Israel to help us get urgent medical assistance for Hatem. We will update when we have more information. ”
Photographer Abu Daqqa, who is among the dead, had won the fame and the nickname of “the adventurer” for her work documenting the impact of the Israeli military campaign and the occupation of the Gaza Strip on children and civil life.
There was no comments from Israel on the strikes.
Deaths intervened in the midst of the growing conviction of the number of Palestinian journalists and media works for being killed, injured or declared missing since the start of the Israeli military campaign in Gaza, launched by terrorist attacks led by October 7 of October 7.
He also added fuel to the suggestions that Israel deliberately targets media workers to prevent them from documenting events on the ground in Gaza.
The figures published by the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the Syndicate of Palestinian Journalists (PJS) on August 18 said that at least 212 Palestinian journalists and media workers had been killed.
The deaths of Monday come only two weeks after Israeli forces killed five Al Jazeera employees during an attack on a tent that houses journalists outside the Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.
They understood the famous journalist from Gaza, Anas Al-Sharif Mohammed Noufal.
Israel said that Al-Sharif, who was one of Gaza’s most famous journalists, was a member of Hamas posing as a journalist. This assertion was refuted by Al-Jazeera and a number of other media organizations.
A group of Democratic senators led by Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), who is Jewish, wrote to the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, August 22
“The recent Israeli strike targeted on a group of journalists and media workers, who killed six journalists, who are well known Al Jazera Journalist Anas Al-Sharif, is only an example of attacks against journalists in Gaza and part of a model of violence that silenced the votes of too many Gazan journalists, “the senators wrote in their declaration.
