On Monday, an Israeli strike marked one of the most deadly programs for media officers working in the war, killing five Palestinian journalists in Gaza, adding a toll of about 200 reporters killed in a fight of about two years.
At least 20 people, including two Israeli attacks, health care workers and journalists, killed at Nasir Hospital in Khan Younis, a southern city in Gaza Patti; Some were killed when replying to the first strike scene appearing as “double tap” attack.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the hospital a “tragic accident” and the Israeli army started an investigation, Hamas terrorists were killed in the strikeBut critics and press freedom advocates accused Israel of failing to provide accountability, and in some cases deliberately targeted journalists.
Among the reporters killed on Monday were Mohammad Salama, who worked for the broadcaster Al Jazeera in Qatar; Maryam Abu Dagga, a contributor to the Associated Press; Hussam al Masri, a contractor for Reuters; Moz Abu Taha, an independent journalist who contributed to Reuters and NBC; And Ahmed Abu Aziz, a correspondent for the UK -based Middle East I.
“When does the alleged bug in the system become its facility?” The documentary “Hu Killed Shirin?” But executive manufacturer and lead investigator Donon Nisenbam was asked. Which investigated the murder of American-Pilstinian journalist Shirin Abu Akleh at West Bank in May 2022.
“There are many events where there are direct attacks and nothing changes to fight the Israel war.”
Committee to protect journalists (CPJ) 189 Palestinian journalists have been killed By Israeli forces in Gaza during the war. The CPJ said a total of 197 journalists and media workers were killed during the war, including Israeli journalists killed by Hamas when the American -nominated terrorist group attacked Israel on 7 October 2023 against Israel.
Even on this scale, Nasir Hospital’s strike Press was particularly shocking to the freedom advocates and audience, who used to see in real time as rescue workers and journalists, responding to an initial strike on the hospital, Bombed for the second time,
Clayton Weimer, Writers Bidout Borders (RSF) USA Executive Director, said it was notable that Netanyahu came out calling the strike a “accident”, but he criticized the comment that “as you can get” as “as” as “as”.
“I don’t know when you strike a strike in a hospital, how can you call it an accident, and then help workers and journalists go to survey the situation and help people, and then eight minutes later, another strike is directly for all those support workers and journalists who look like a target attack for me,” he said.
In an initial investigation, the Israeli army stated that its soldiers have identified a camera that they say that was deployed by Hamas, observed the activity of the Israeli contingent and posed a threat. Israeli army said Six “terrorists” killed in strikeFour members of Hamas, a member of the Islamic Jihad and a person said that the 7 October attacks participated.
Israeli military head of staff Ile Zameer on Tuesday Directed further investigation in “many gaps”, Given the authority process before the strike, including the authority’s strike and timely ammunition approved for the time. Zamir also asked for an examination of the decision making process in the area.
The Foreign Press Association in Israel initially responded to the attack, saying it was “angry and shock” and demanded clarification from the Israeli army and accused Israel of targeting journalists.
“It has been gone for a very long time. Many journalists in Gaza have been killed without justification by Israel. Israel has continued to stop international journalists from independent access to Gaza,” The organization said in a statement,
The Israeli government has prevented international journalists from entering Gaza to independently report on war, citing security concerns, and only foreign and Israeli journalists to enter Gaza with the Israeli army. It has left Palestinian journalists in Gaza – as well as primary sources to relay the information on bombing, hunger and displacement, land along with the rest of the population.
Israeli spokesman Brigadier. General AF Defreed said that the army does not deliberately target citizens and blames Hamas for blaming Hamas, using civil infrastructure including hospitals.
“Hamas started this war, created an impossible battle situation – and still holding the 50 hostages and stopping its end,” Deffreen Said in a video statement,
The position of President Trump on the war is wildly, to put his support behind an extended Israeli military campaign by expressing concern over starvation in Gaza. On Monday, he said that he There was “not happy” about Hospital strike and war can be held in two to three weeks.
Trump from the Oval office said, “It is going to be organized at some point. I am saying that you will better solve it soon.”
The Congress has a clear partisan division over Israel’s actions, some Democrats speaking against the War conduct of Israel and Republican is almost equally supportive of Israel’s actions and clarifications.
Senate Foreign Relations Committee ranking member Sen Jean Shaheen (DN.H.) said he was “wasted” from bombing and death of journalists in the hospital and called for the end of the war. Shaheen spoke to Berut, Lebanon on Monday with reporters at a phone briefing, after a bipartite visit to Syria.
A member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, who was joining Wilson (Rupees), who pointed to Israeli claims that Hamas embed himself in hospitals and uses citizens as a human shield.
“It’s heartbreaking, as we have used Gaza’s Palestinian population as a human shield,” he said.
American pressure, or its lack, affects the fact that Israeli reacted to the destructive citizen deaths and people of journalists, Nisenbam said, who previously served as the Middle East reporter for Wall Street Journal.
His documentary cited an anonymous American officer That Abu Akle was deliberately shot By an Israeli soldier, despite the public statement of former biden administration supporting Israeli’s conclusion That shooting was inadvertently,
“, We, in our documentary, try and create the fact that we refuse to catch Israel to kill an American journalist, the first American journalist killed by Israel’s armies in West Bank or Gaza gave Israel a real feeling,” Nisenbam said.
“Because if the United States was not standing up and was pushing for meaningful changes in response to the murder of an American journalist, they were certainly not going to stand in defense of Palestinian journalists. And because the failure to keep Israel in mind, we think that we think that we pave the way for what we see in Gaza.”
RSF’s Wimer said that the fact that Palestinian journalists were working for international outlets in the strike of Nasir Hospital, have noticed the issue of press safety, called over pressure from foreign governments, especially in America, only in the form of bodies that can benefit for changes.
Israeli officials are likely to listen to an early from the sensor this week. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) and Jeff Mercale (D-Ore), who arrived in the region to press for a immediate ceasefire in Gaza and came to the withdrawal of hostages organized by Hamas.
“We are answering,” Van Holen and Merclay said in a statement to The Hill on Tuesday.
“The struggle in Gaza resulted in an unprecedented loss of the lives of journalists. The pattern of disregard for the safety of Netanyahu government journalists – and a large -scale citizen – is unacceptable.”
Another high-profile case without conclusion is the murder of Reuters Photo Journalist Isam Abdullah, who died in October 2023 by Israeli Tank Shelling in Southern Lebanon, A raater was investigatedThe incident also injured six other reporters who were working with Egnes France-Press and Al Jazeera. The Israeli army said in a statement to the hill that “the incident is still being investigated.”
Weimar described Israel a long track record of acting with acting while hitting journalists in both Gaza and West Bank, “and it is a pattern of behavior that just needs to change.”
He said, “It is so consistent that you have to call an IT policy at this point. It is not a policy failure. This is the policy that Israel targets journalists,” he said.
