Israeli Double-Strike who killed 5 journalists sparkle the international conviction

A double strike from Israel who killed five journalists in a Gaza Strip hospital sparked a wave of indignation around the world, with growth calls for Israel to be responsible for the death of press members.

On Monday morning, an Israeli strike struck the upper floor of Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, south of Gaza. The reuters news agency said that one of its journalists who operated a live flow from the region, Hussam Al-Masri, had been killed in this strike.

After journalists and rescuers rushed to an external staircase on the scene of the first strike, a second strike hit the stairs itself – an attack captured by several media.

At least 20 people were killed in total, most of them in the second strike, including five journalists who went to points of sale such as the Associated Press, Al Jazeera, Reuters and the Middle East.

“The murder of journalists in Gaza should shock the world not in an amazed silence, but in the action requiring responsibility and justice,” Thameen al-Kheetan, spokesperson for the United Nations Rights Office, Thameen in Geneva.

Al-Kheetan called for the attack “in-depth and independent”.

In a separate declaration, the UN noted that “at a time when reliable information is the key, the protection of press freedom is more important than ever.

“Journalists – including those who risk their lives to exhibit hard truths – are #Notatarget.”

The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described a “tragic incident” and said the soldiers were investigating. The army said it was targeting activists and what it believed was a Hamas surveillance camera.

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Five journalists among the killed on Israeli air strikes at Gaza hospital

The independent CBC videographer, Mohamed El Saife, was on the ground in Gaza when two Israeli air strikes hit Nasser hospital. At least 20 people died, including five journalists.

Hamas denied Tuesday that the Palestinians killed in the attack on Israel against the Nasser Hospital in Gaza were activists.

The government’s media office of Hamas said in a statement that one of the six Palestinians who said Israel were activists had been killed in Al -Mawasi – a certain distance from the hospital – and another was killed elsewhere at a different time.

In a later declaration, the Israeli army specifically noted that journalists affiliated to Reuters and the Associated Press “were not a target”.

The double strike received a rapid international conviction. In an article on X, Canada described the attack on “unacceptable”, adding that “Israel has the obligation to protect civilians, including journalists and health workers, operating in Gaza”.

The European Union also condemned the attack, with the spokesman for the Anouar El Anouni commission indicating on Tuesday in a press briefing that “civilians and journalists must be protected by international law”.

French President Emmanuel Macron described the “intolerable” hospital attacks, declaring that “civilians and journalists were to be protected in all circumstances”, while the German Ministry of Affairs said it was “shocked” and underlined the need for an investigation into the strikes. Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom David Lammy said he was “horrified” by the attack.

At least 197 workers and media journalists have been killed in the war since October 2023, according to the committee to protect journalists, making it one of the deadliest conflicts in the history of journalists. The majority were Palestinian journalists killed in Gaza.

Some other surveillance groups have put the figure of journalists killed at more than 200.

“The murder broadcast by Israel of journalists in Gaza continues while the world is watching and does not firmly succeed in the most horrible attacks that the press has ever encountered in recent history,” said Sara Qudah, regional director of the committee to protect journalists in a statement. “These murders must end now. The authors should no longer be allowed to act with impunity.”

The Chief of the Israeli Army has recognized several “gaps” in their investigation so far in the strikes and said that it was examining the chain of command which approved strikes. Known as “double taps”, such consecutive strikes have attracted condemnation in wars in Ukraine and Syria, especially when they hit civilians or rushing medical workers to help.

Journalists from different points of sale were known to use the Nasser Hospital to create live television segments. Images taken by a Reuters correspondent on the staircase after the first strike shows that a man holding Al-Masri’s camera equipment in the air for the crowd below and the rescuers dressed in orange taking care of the scene before a second explosion occurs. The Reuters correspondent who captured the video survived the attacks.

One of the journalists killed, Mariam Dagga, 33, was a visual journalist who had recently pointed out for the associated Press on hospital doctors who was fighting to save hungry children.

Journalists killed, faced with famine

The strikes of Nasser Hospital intervened just two weeks after Israel deliberately published an air strike on an tent near the hospital of Al Shifa to kill the correspondent of Al Jazeera Anas Al-Sharif. Six journalists, including four from Al Jazeera, were killed in the attack.

The Israeli army recognized that Al-Sharif was the target, but quoted information that said that it was part of Hamas. CBC News has not seen any intelligence document which checks this allegation, and Al Jazeera said that the complaint was baseless, calling the strike a “targeted assassination”.

The foreign media were prohibited by Israel from independently penetrating Gaza, local journalists doing independent work provided the majority of international media coverage. But the deterioration of the conditions on the ground left journalists struggling with the same famine facing civilians.

In July, several media, including CBC News, Reuters and the BBC, published a joint statement describing the number of “narcotic” deaths of journalists from the region and calling Israel to allow international journalists to enter the enclave.

“While local journalists are killed, face the threat of hunger or try to flee, the world will be systematically cut to testify to what is happening. This cannot happen,” the statement said.

Under international law, health establishments and journalists are not supposed to be targeted during armed conflicts.

Journalists and media organizations operating in Gaza have previously raised concerns that Israel deliberately targets journalists. Israel argued that he was trying to alleviate civilian victims and blamed his strikes in health establishments on Hamas, alleging that the militant group used installations such as staging.

One day, one day after the double strike at Nasser hospital, Israeli strikes killed at least 16 Palestinians, reported officials from Shifa hospital, Nasser hospital and the Sheikh Radwan clinic in Gaza City.

The military offensive of Israel has killed more than 62,000 years in the past two years, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health, which says that around half of the people killed were women and children.

Protests in Israel

Meanwhile, demonstrators in Israel have burned tires, blocked highways and claimed a cease-fire that would always release hostages in Gaza, while Israeli leaders would continue with plans for an extended offensive to Gaza City.

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Day of protest held in Israel demanding the release of hostages in Gaza

The families of hostages and their supporters through Israel participated in a “day of disturbance”, calling for the end of the Gaza War and in the release of all the hostages of Gaza.

Netanyahu met his security firm on Tuesday evening, but he revealed little of what happened when he later appeared during an event in Jerusalem.

“It started in Gaza, and it will end in Gaza,” Netanyahu said. “We will not leave these monsters there. We will release all our hostages. We will make sure that Gaza is no longer a threat to Israel.”

Netanyahu said that Israel will launch its Gaza City offensive while simultaneously pursuing a ceasefire, although Israel has not yet sent a negotiation team to discuss a proposal on the table.

He said the offensive is the best way to weaken Hamas and return hostages, but hostage families and their supporters have pushed back.

The vast majority of the 251 hostages captured by Hamas on October 7, 2023, were released during cease-fire. Israel only saved eight living hostages. Fifty hostages remain in Gaza; About 20 years are considered by Israel to live.