5 Palestinian journalists have been killed in an Israeli double-tap strike on Nasser hospital in southern Gaza on Monday.
Israel struck a constructing on the hospital, killing Reuters journalist Hussam al-Masri and others. Then, after journalists and rescue employees ran to the scene to assist their colleagues, a second bomb hit the identical spot quarter-hour later.
The 5 journalists be a part of their now greater than 247 Palestinian colleagues killed in Gaza over the past 22 months, based on UN statistics.
That is the deadliest battle for journalists recorded, killing extra journalists than each world wars, the Vietnam battle, the Yugoslavia wars and the US battle in Afghanistan mixed.
The strike on Nasser hospital was captured by a reside broadcast and confirmed unarmed medics and journalists holding up their palms to defend themselves moments earlier than they have been killed.
The photographs of their deaths have provoked outrage throughout the globe and calls to guard Palestinian journalists whereas they’re doing their jobs.
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