The Health Ministry said early Thursday that five Palestinian journalists were killed in an Israeli strike outside a hospital in the Gaza Strip overnight. According to the Israeli military, it had targeted a group of combatants.
In the densely populated Nuseirat refugee camp in the center of the region, the strike struck a car outside the Al-Awda Hospital. The local Quds News Network, where the journalists were employed, also covered the strike. According to the military, it targeted a group of combatants from Islamic Jihad, a Hamas-affiliated organization whose invasion into southern Israel on October 7, 2023, sparked the conflict.
Since the war began, more than 130 Palestinian journalists have been slain, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. Other than on military embeds, Israel has prohibited international journalists from entering Gaza.
Hamas-led fighters unexpectedly crossed the border and attacked neighboring army bases and farmland villages, sparking the start of the war. They kidnapped about 250 people and slaughtered about 1,200 people, most of them were civilians. At least one-third of the 100 hostages who are still inside Gaza are thought to be dead.
The Health Ministry reports that Israel’s air and ground offensive has killed more than 45,000 Palestinians. It states that women and children have accounted for over half of the deaths, although it doesn’t specify the proportion of warriors that perished.
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