Hassan Eslaih has been killed in Nasser Hospital throughout remedy for accidents sustained within the earlier Israeli assault.
Israel’s military has admitted to finishing up “a focused assault” on the Nasser Medical Complicated within the metropolis of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, killing two folks, together with Palestinian journalist Hassan Eslaih.
Gaza’s Authorities Media Workplace on Tuesday confirmed the killing of Eslaih, who was receiving remedy on the hospital’s burn unit for extreme accidents sustained throughout an April 7 Israeli strike on a media tent positioned subsequent to the hospital.
The AFP information company footage from Nasser Hospital after Tuesday’s strike confirmed smoke rising from the power as rescuers searched by way of the rubble by the sunshine of torches.
A hospital employee who gave his identify as Abu Ghali stated the Israeli bombardment “doesn’t differentiate between civilians and navy targets”.
“It is a civilian hospital that receives injured folks across the clock,” he instructed AFP.
Eslaih was the director of the Alam24 Information Company and a freelancer who contributed to worldwide information organisations, together with images of the Hamas-led October 7 assault.
Israel has claimed Eslaih was a Hamas fighter who participated within the October 7 assault, an allegation he vehemently denied.
Dozens of journalists killed
A minimum of 178 journalists and media employees have been killed in Palestine, Israel, and Lebanon for the reason that warfare started, in response to the Committee to Shield Journalists. Gaza’s Authorities Media Workplace put the demise toll at 215.
Israel’s navy stated in a publish on Telegram that the strike focused a Hamas “command and management advanced” on the hospital – the most important in southern Gaza – with out offering additional proof.
“The compound was utilized by the terrorists to plan and execute terrorist assaults towards Israeli civilians and [military] troops,” the publish stated, in what gave the impression to be a reference to Eslaih and Hamas.
Gaza’s Well being Ministry on Tuesday condemned “the repeated focusing on of hospitals and the pursuit and killing of wounded sufferers inside remedy rooms”, saying it “confirms Israel’s deliberate intent to inflict larger injury to the healthcare system”.
Hospitals in Gaza have been a frequent goal of Israeli assaults for the reason that warfare started in October 2023, though attacking well being amenities, medical personnel and sufferers is against the law underneath the 1949 Geneva Conference.
In line with officers in Gaza, Israel has bombed and burned at the least 36 hospitals throughout the enclave for the reason that warfare erupted.
