This is at least the 5th incident of targeting a group of journalists inside or on the grounds of hospitals. There was one just a few weeks ago that killed a well-known Al-Jazeera journalist and others working for AP, Reuters etc. It's a kill two-birds with one stone type of thing. Hide war crimes from the world and also continue the devastation of hospitals. But journalists are killed everywhere, often in their homes along with their entire families. They're targeted assassinations, with no regard for loss of civilian life, something Israel is good at and has been allowed to get away with for decades - for reasons we all should know by now.
A few months old but a good overview of the pattern of killings at hospitals:
The UN Human Rights Office in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) condemns the Israeli
military’s pattern of killings of journalists in Gaza, which remains the deadliest place in the world
to be a journalist. In the latest attack on Al Ahli Hospital, Gaza City, in the morning on 5 June, at
least 4 journalists were killed and 3 more were injured. This is at least the third instance of
journalists apparently targeted and killed at hospitals. An attack on Nasr Medical Complex in Khan
Younis on 7 April 2005 killed 2 journalists, and an attack on Al Awda Hospital in An Nuseirat
killed 5 journalists on 26 December 2024.
UN Human Rights Office OPT is horrified that Israeli military attacks reportedly killed 18
journalists in May 2025 alone. The Office has verified the killing of 227 Palestinian journalists in
Gaza since 7 October 2023, including 197 men and 30 women. The apparent targeting of
Palestinian journalists in Gaza, combined with the denial by Israel of access of foreign journalists
to Gaza for over 18 months, except a few visits controlled by IDF, appear to indicate a deliberate
attempt by Israel to limit the flow of information to and from Gaza and prevent reporting on the
impact of its attacks and denial of humanitarian assistance. Directing attacks against protected
persons such as journalists is a violation of international humanitarian law and also constitutes a
war crime.
The attack on Al Ahli Hospital on 5 June came as the Israeli military targeted hospitals that had
barely recovered from previous rounds of hostilities. The Israeli military's conduct of hostilities
has pushed the health care system across Gaza to the verge of complete collapse. Operations in
North Gaza have put three main hospitals in the governorate out of service, destroying the sole
dialysis centre in the north. At the same time, the Israeli displacement orders and intense military
operation in Khan Younis are preventing patients from reaching two of the main hospitals in Khan
Younis - European and Al Amal Hospitals, and Israeli ground troops are advancing in the vicinity
of Nasr Medical Complex – the largest hospital in the south, raising the risk of it also being of it
also being forced out of service. Al Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al Balah was struck three times
in the morning on 4 June.
The coordinated, repeated and extensive attacks on hospitals, which are specially protected
facilities under international humanitarian law, and the deprivation of health and medicate care to
those in desperate need, further indicate a complete indifference towards civilian lives and
suffering and raise concerns of an intentional disregard by Israel of its obligation to respect and protect civilians.
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