DaysofPal- Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) bombed Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, on Monday morning, killing 20 people, including five journalists, civil defense paramedics, patients, and other civilians.
The journalists killed in the attack were identified as: Hossam al-Masri, a photographer for Reuters; Mohammad Salameh, a photographer for Al Jazeera; and Mariam Abu Daqah, a photojournalist, Ahmed Aziz, a journalist, Moath Abu Tahah, where the civil defense paramedic who was killed was Abdullah al-Shaer.
Sources confirmed that the attack was direct and deliberate, as the Israeli forces first targeted the journalists while they were covering humanitarian conditions inside the hospital, and then, when medical teams and nurses rushed to rescue the wounded, a second airstrike killed several of them.
Subsequently, when civil defense teams arrived to retrieve the martyrs and the injured from under the rubble, they were struck by a third attack.
Activists described the assault as a fully-fledged war crime, targeting three groups protected under international law: journalists, medical personnel, and civil defense teams.
The Israeli attack constitutes a blatant violation of all international conventions, including the Fourth Geneva Convention, which obliges the protection of those working in journalistic and humanitarian fields.
The Israeli crime was not merely an incidental airstrike but a deliberate attempt to silence the truth, destroy evidence, and terrorize anyone reporting on the situation or rescuing victims.
The Palestinian authorities, civil society, the international community, human rights organizations, and associations of journalists, doctors, and aid workers have been urged to act immediately to hold the perpetrators accountable and end the culture of impunity.
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