22 dead including 5 journalists in Gaza

 

BY C STONE | STONE NEWS NETWORK ||| MIDDLE EAST

Source: NPR

Gaza's largest functioning hospital was hit today, killing 22 people and 5 journalists. Here is a list of the news agencies hit by the attacks

• Associated Press
• Reuters
• Al Jazeera's Arabic News Channel

The attacks were concentrated along the 4th floor open stairwell of the Nasser Hospital Monday morning.

In the above picture, you can see the blood-stained camera that was once owned by Palestinian photojournalist Mariam Dagga, who freelanced for the Associated Press. She was killed by an Israeli strike on the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis.

Freelance journalist Mariam Dagga, 33, who had been working with The Associated Press and other outlets during the war in Gaza,

via NPR:

The first strike took place around 10 a.m. when Hussam al-Masri, a cameraman for the Reuters news agency, was operating a live feed with a bird's-eye view of nearby Israeli military positions, including tanks, in the devastated city of Khan Younis in southern Gaza.

A second missile, fired from a tank, slammed into the same spot just minutes later, as rescue workers raced to Masri, with other journalists photographing and filming the aftermath of that initial strike, according to witnesses and footage. At the site, another camera feed for Al-Ghad news channel zoomed in, capturing the moment of the second attack in real time.

"Oh God, the rescuers are gone. They killed the people! They killed them," the reporter yells in disbelief on live television.  

Other people killed in the attacks at Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis include medical staff, a medical resident and a first responder, according to morgue records.

It marked one of the deadliest days for the press in the Palestinian territory, where Israeli attacks have killed 245 media workers in the past 22 months of the war, according to lists published by Palestinian journalists.

By early afternoon, fellow journalists and dozens of other people had gathered to mourn their dead colleagues, who were prepared for burial with their body armor marked "PRESS" placed on top of their corpses that were wrapped in white sheets.

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