JOURNALISTS KILLED
Israel has been below mounting stress each at house and overseas to wrap up its marketing campaign in Gaza, the place the battle has created a humanitarian disaster and devastated a lot of the territory.
On Monday, Israeli strikes hit a Gaza hospital, killing no less than 20 individuals, together with 5 journalists working for Al Jazeera, the Related Press and Reuters, amongst different retailers.
The United Nations, NGOs and world powers together with staunch Israeli allies all expressed shock on the assault.
Netanyahu later expressed remorse over what he referred to as a “tragic mishap”, and the Israeli army ordered an preliminary inquiry into the strikes.
The continuing battle in Gaza has been one of many deadliest for journalists, with round 200 media employees killed over the course of the practically two-year Israeli assault, in line with press watchdogs.
The battle in Gaza was sparked by Hamas’s October 2023 assault on Israel, which resulted within the deaths of 1,219 individuals, principally civilians, in line with an AFP tally based mostly on official figures.
Out of 251 hostages seized throughout Hamas’s 2023 assault, 49 are nonetheless held in Gaza, together with 27 the Israeli army says are useless. Palestinian militants additionally maintain the stays of an Israeli soldier killed in a 2014 battle.
Israel’s retaliatory offensive has killed no less than 62,744 Palestinians, most of them civilians, in line with figures from the well being ministry in Hamas-run Gaza that the United Nations considers dependable.
