Gaza latest: Journalists among 19 killed in Israeli strike on Nasser hospital, health ministry says – UK Times

A toddler has died in hospital as a result of prolonged nutritional deficiency and a lack of baby formula.

Senior reporter Tara Cobham reports on the devastating impact the Israel-Hamas war is having on Palestinian children.

In addition to those killed at Nasser Hospital, hospital officials in northern Gaza also reported deaths from strikes and gunfire along the route to aid sites.

Three Palestinians, including a child, were killed in a strike on a neighborhood in Gaza City, where Israel is preparing for a broader ground invasion in the coming days, Shifa Hospital said.

Al-Awda Hospital reported six aid-seekers trying to reach a distribution point in central Gaza were killed by Israeli gunfire in an incident that also wounded 15.

Israel’s military did not immediately respond to a question about the aid seekers.

At least 19 people have been killed in an Israeli double-tap strike on Nasser Hospital, health ministry officials have said.

Four journalists are among the dead following the strike on the Khan Younis hospital, which has faced repeated strikes throughout the war.

Veteran journalist Wael Al-Dahdouh, Al Jazeera’s bureau chief in Gaza City, paid tribute to the four journalists killed in the bombing of Nasser Hospital.

“The price of truth in Gaza is very high and the killing against journalists does not stop.

“May God have mercy on you and all colleagues”

Finland’s president Alexander Stubb has criticised the conflict in Gaza in a new statement.

“It’s a failure by humanity that we have not gained control of the situation in Gaza”, a statement read, sourced by Reuters.

“What Israel does is against all humanitarian law.”

The victims on the fourth floor of Nasser Hospital were killed in a double-tap strike with one missile hitting first, then another moments later as rescue crews arrived, the ministry said.

Khan Younis’ Nasser Hospital, the largest in southern Gaza, has withstood raids and bombardment throughout 22 months of war, with officials citing critical shortages of supplies and staff.

Four journalists were killed in the strikes on Nasser Hospital. according to officials.

This includes cameraman Hussam al-Masri who worked for Reuters, and photographer Mohammed Salama who worked for Al Jazeera, the news networks confirmed.

Mariam Dagga, who freelanced for the AP since the Gaza war beganas well as other news outlets was also killed in an attack. Dagga had reported on Nasser Hospital doctors struggling to save children with no prior health issues who were wasting away from starvation.

We are still confirming the identity of the another journalist killed in the strike.

Photographer Hatem Khaled, also contracted by Reuters, was injured.

Khaled Al Serr, a Palestinian surgeon who works at the hospital, told The Independent that the bombing hit “the main building, the surgical building.

“The civil defence forces and also the paramedics rushed to the area of the bombing to evacuate the injured,” he added.

“During the evacuation, we were standing in front of the building looking to work by starting to receive cases to the emergency department from the bombing.

“We were surprised by another bombing to the same spot.”