Israel affirms the strike in the hospital that killed journalists was pointing to a camera used by Hamas

The Israel Army issued a statement on Tuesday saying its preliminary investigation on a strike the previous day that killed at least 20 people, including five journalistsat the Nasser hospital in the Strip in Gaza del Sur, he had addressed a camera that said Hamas was using for surveillance.

Israel’s defense forces said the troops in Khan Younis identified a camera “used to observe the activity of IDF troops, to direct terrorist activities against them.”

The IDF did not provide evidence to support the statement, but said it was “more supported” for the use of Hamas de Hamas previously documented “by terrorist organizations throughout the war, and by intelligence confirming the use of Hamas from the Nasser Hospital to carry out terrorist activities from the beginning of the war.”

The explanation of the Israeli army contrasts with a statement by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a few hours after the incident, expressing repentance for what he called a “tragic accident”, without suggestion of a specific objective of Hamas in the hospital.

“Israel values ​​the work of journalists, medical staff and all civilians,” said Netanyahu’s office in the statement published on social networks. “The military authorities are carrying out an exhaustive investigation. Our war is with the terrorists of Hamas. Our fair goals are defeating Hamas and bring our hostages home.”

In what the witnesses described as a double -touch strike for the Israeli drones, with a missile that hit the hospital followed by another when people gathered to evaluate the damage and serve the injured, five Palestinian journalists were killed on Monday on Monday.

His identities were confirmed as hossam al-masri, who worked for the Reuters news agency, Mohammed Salama, who worked for Al Jazeera, and independent journalists Maryam Abu Daqqa, Moaz Abu Taha and Ahmad Abu Aziz.

News’s news director for the Middle East, Jon Gumbrell, said in a publication on the social networks that Abu Daqqa had “regardless of the AP since Gaza War began.”

Medium East Eye, a media with headquarters in the United Kingdom that focuses on the region, said Abu Aziz had been working for the organization.

The strike was among the deadliest of several who have affected hospitals and journalists during the 22 -month war in Gaza, and occurred when Israel plans to expand their offensive to very populated areas in the densely populated Palestinian territory.

The first strike reached a last floor of a building at the Nasser hospital. Minutes later, when journalists and rescuers in orange vests ran down an external staircase to reach the scene of the first explosion, a second missile success, said Dr. Ahmed Al-Farra, head of the Nasser Pediatrics Department.

In a statement issued on Monday, the foreign press association, which represents the journalists working in Israel and the Palestinian territories, said it was “outraged and in a state of shock” for the murders of media workers.

“This is one of the most mortal Israeli attacks against journalists who work for international media since Gaza War began,” the organization said. “These strikes reached the outer staircase of the hospital where journalists frequently parked with their cameras. The strikes arrived without prior notice.”

The IDF, in their Tuesday, said the Israeli forces had identified the alleged surveillance chamber, “operated to eliminate the threat beating and dismantling the camera and the investigation showed that the troops operated to eliminate the threat.”

The IDF said that six of those killed in the attack “were terrorists, one of which participated in infiltration in the Israeli territory on October 7. At the same time, the general personnel head regrets any damage caused to civilians.”

The IDF did not identify the alleged terrorists killed in the strike, nor did they explain the evidence used to determine that they were terrorists. Nor did the FDI suggested that nothing had been deliberately directed in the strike other than the alleged camera.

The Army said that the Chief of Personnel had ordered greater investigation into “the authorization process before the strike, including the ammunition approved for the strike and the time of authorization” and the “process of decision making in the field.”

President Trump asked about the deadly strike on Monday, said he had not been aware until the question was asked.

“When did this happen?” Trump asked a journalist at the White House. “I didn’t know. Well, I’m not happy with that. I don’t want to see it. At the same time, we have to finish all that nightmare.”

Israel has had an increasing pressure on the number of journalists killed in their military operations in Gaza, even on specific strikes against individuals who claim that Israeli officials were Hamas agents.

At least 197 journalists and media workers have been killed in Gaza, the West Bank occupied by Israel, and in Lebanon from Israel launched its war against Hamas in Gaza in retaliation for the terrorist attack orchestrated in Hamas on October 7, 2023, according to the committee to protect journalists.

That war has killed more than 60,000 people in Gaza, according to the Hamas Ministry of Health of the Palestinian enclave, which does not distinguish between civilians and combatants in their figures. The attack led by Hamas almost two years ago killed 1,200 people in southern Israel and saw another 251 taken as hostages in Gaza.

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