Israel strikes Gaza hospital killing at least 20, including journalists
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The news: Israel launched a strike on Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza on Monday, killing at least 20 people, according to local health authorities.
The context: The top floor of a building in the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis was struck at around 10:10am local time on Monday and as journalists rushed up an external staircase to the site of the strike, a second missile hit. The second strike killed 17 people, a Gaza Health Ministry representative told the Associated Press (AP).
The AP, Al Jazeera and Reuters have confirmed their journalists and freelancers were among the five journalists killed.
Israel’s military in a statement to the AP confirmed it had struck targets in the area of the hospital. It said it would conduct an investigation and “regrets any harm to uninvolved individuals and does not target journalists as such.”
According to the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate, more than 240 Palestinian journalists have been killed by Israeli fire in Gaza since the war started on 7 October, 2023.
The strikes come as Gaza prepares for an expected Israeli offensive into Gaza City, the enclave’s most populated area.
The sources: Associated Press, Bloomberg, Reuters
