At least 29 Palestinians were killed by the dawn today in the attacks of the Israeli army (IDF) in the Gaza Strip, report the media.
The balance includes 20 people, including five journalists and a member of the Civil Protection, killed in an attack with a Kamikaze drone that targeted the Nasser hospital complex of Khan Youunis, in the south of the Gaza Strip.
Previously, the Palestinian agency Wafa had made it known that at least nine civilians had died in different attacks by the Idf in the area, including five members of a family in the bombing of a house in the Al-Karameh area, north-west of Gaza City.
The Gaza government controlled by Hamas has made it known that among the four journalists killed there are a photographer of the Reuters news agency and a reporter of the US station NBC. Reuters’ photojournalist, reports to Jazeera, was Hossam Al-Masri, while the NBC journalist was called Moaz Abu Taha. The other two victims were the photojournalist of the same at Jazeera. Mohammed Salama, and Moriam Abu Daqa, a journalist who collaborated with various media, including the Independent Arabic and the Associated Press. According to Sky News, the fifth killed reporter is Ahmed Abu Aziz, who died due to the injuries sustained after the raids.
A doctor from the Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis, Saber al-Asmar, said that patients are “running away from the structure” for fear “of another Israeli attack, he brings back to Jazeera. “We were like all the others inside the hospital, we simply did our job with a serious lack of equipment, tools and drugs. And while everyone was doing their job, this massive attack arrived,” said Al-Asmar, adding that the raid took place while in the hospital there were students, doctors and journalists. “The operating room, especially in the morning, is full of medical students, patients, doctors and nurses … were following the lessons, while journalists prepared to report on what is happening in the hospitals of Gaza,” he underlined.
Reuters and AP: “upset for the death of reporters in Gaza”
“We are upset in learning about the death of Reuters’ collaborator, Hussam Al-Masri, and the injury of another of our collaborators, Hatem Khaled, in the Israeli attacks at the Nasser hospital in Gaza today”. Reuters said it in a note shown on his website. “We are urgently looking for more information and we asked the authorities of Gaza and Israel to help us get urgent medical assistance for Hatem”, reads the note.
“The Associated Press is shocked and saddened in learning about the death of the journalist Mariam dagga, together with several other journalists, at the Nassar hospital in Khan Youunis, in Gaza”. It reads in a press release from the Associated Press relaunched by Reuters on his website.
“Mariam went regularly to the hospital for media coverage. His recent work included touching stories of hungry and malnourished children in Gaza. He worked as a freelance for the Associated Press and other newspapers. We are doing everything possible to guarantee the security of our journalists in Gaza”.
Tajani: “guarantee the safety of journalists in Gaza”
On the theme of the media in Gaza “we have already approved a document together with many other countries. Our position on press freedom does not change, we believe it is right to guarantee the safety of journalists and it is right that journalists can also perform their work in the Gaza Strip ». Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said this at the end of his hearing with Pope Leone, commenting on the killing of four reporters in a raid of the IDF in Gaza.