Outrage after Israel kills five journalists in ‘double-tap’ attack on Gaza hospital
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The Israeli attacks hit a balcony on the hospital used by reporters for an elevated view of Khan Younis.
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Dr. Mohammad Saqer, a hospital spokesman and head of nursing, said that five journalists and four health workers had died.Video from the scene shows Saqer holding up a blood-soaked cloth after the first strike when another explosion rocks the building, filling the air with smoke and sending people running for cover.
A live camera from Al Ghad TV shows emergency workers on a damaged staircase at the hospital when the second attack hits the building.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in an updated statement Monday evening that it “carried out a strike in the area of” the hospital. IDF spokesman Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin said the military was “aware of reports that harm was caused to civilians, including journalists.” Defin said the military was operating in an “extremely complex reality.”
That is also true, also written here at 8:39.
Not true.
Also true.
An Israeli security official with knowledge of the details of that initial inquiry said IDF forces identified a camera on the roof of the hospital that they claimed was being used by Hamas to monitor the Israeli military.
The forces received authorization to strike the camera with a drone, the source said. But instead, Israeli forces fired two tank shells: the first at the camera and the second at rescue forces.
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The details of the inquiry are a remarkable admission from an Israeli official that it intentionally targeted the first responders that arrived at the scene after the initial strike....Netanyahu, in an admission that Israel had killed journalists and emergency responders, said that Israel “deeply regrets” what he called a “tragic mishap” at Nasser hospital. “Israel values the work of journalists, medical staff, and all civilians.
Not true. Not a "mishap".
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Philippe Lazzarini, the head of UNRWA, the main UN agency for Palestinian refugees, said on social media that the strikes amounted to “silencing the last remaining voices reporting about children dying silently amid famine.”The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate described the attack as a “heinous massacre perpetrated by the Israeli occupation forces… which directly targeted media and journalistic crews,” while Doctors Without Borders (MSF) also condemned the strikes on the “only partially functioning public hospital in the south of Gaza.” The group’s emergency coordinator in Gaza Jerome Grimaud said some MSF staffers were “forced to shelter in the laboratory as Israel repeatedly struck the building amidst rescue efforts.”
“First responders moved in, including journalists, and they were killed in the second attack." Jodie Ginsberg, president Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)
“So in both instances, it looks like Israel has committed unlawful killings, war crimes, both in the deliberate killing of the Reuters cameraman and in this so-called double tap attack,” Ginsberg added.
AP freelancer among 5 journalists killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza hospital, health officials say
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Aug 25 (Reuters) - Israeli strikes on Nasser hospital in Gaza on Monday killed at least 15 people, including four journalists, one of whom worked for Reuters, Palestinian health officials said.
Cameraman Hussam al-Masri, a Reuters contractor, was killed in the first strike, according to the officials. Photographer Hatem Khaled, who was also a Reuters contractor, was wounded in a second strike on the hospital, they said.
Witnesses said the second strike took place after rescue workers, journalists and other people had rushed to the site of the initial attack. The Reuters live video feed from the hospital, which was operated by Masri, suddenly shut down at the moment of the initial strike, Reuters footage showed.
Israel hits Gaza hospital, killing at least 15 people, including journalists
Cameraman Hussam al-Masri, a Reuters contractor, was killed in the first strike, according to the officials. Photographer Hatem Khaled, who was also a Reuters contractor, was wounded in a second strike on the hospital, they said.
Witnesses said the second strike took place after rescue workers, journalists and other people had rushed to the site of the initial attack. The Reuters live video feed from the hospital, which was operated by Masri, suddenly shut down at the moment of the initial strike, Reuters footage showed.
Hamas uses hospitals as superstructure for their tunnels and as hideouts, and no political organization, much less a Nazi-like political group, is an enumerated protected collective under the law of genocide. Still, what we see here is the same murderous sadism that Israel practices at GHF aid sites, luring civilians in, in this case journalists, with a first strike (on a hospital), and then when they can maximize shriek for shekel, launching a second strike.
