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The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) has said that 15 medics and rescuers killed by Israeli forces last month in Gaza were shot in the upper body with “intent to kill”.
An Israeli airstrike on a tent camp within a hospital complex in the southern Gaza City of Khan Younis has killed 10 people, including a journalist, while seriously injuring dozens more after their encampment caught fire.
Gaza’s government media office has said the number of journalists killed in Israeli attacks on the territory since October 2023 has risen to 210 after Palestinian journalist Hilmi al-Faqawi was killed earlier today by an Israeli airstrike.
A war crimes complaint against 10 Britons who served with the Israeli military in Gaza is to be submitted to the Met police by one of the UK’s leading human rights lawyers.
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is due to visit US President Donald Trump at the White House later today, and will talk about Iran, Israel-Turkey relations, tariffs and the remaining Israeli hostages being held captive in Gaza.
At least 37 people have been killed in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip since dawn, according to Al Jazeera.
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Israeli airstrike on hospital camp used by Gaza journalists kills 10 people
Here is some more detail from my colleague Ruth Michaelson on the deadly bombing of a tent housing journalists near Nasser hospital in Khan Younis:
An Israeli airstrike on a tent camp within a hospital complex in the southern Gaza City of Khan Younis has killed 10 people, including a journalist, while seriously injuring dozens more after their encampment caught fire.
Images and video from the courtyard of Nasser hospital in Khan Younis showed people desperately attempting to extinguish the fires as it burned through a row of tents. One video showed people screaming as a bystander attempted to move a burning piece of furniture, while a journalist, later identified as Ahmed Mansour of the news outlet Palestine Today, sat upright engulfed by the blaze.
His colleague Helmi al-Faqawi was killed in the strike, while at least nine other journalists were among the wounded. Mansour received treatment for severe burns while the photographer Hassan Aslih was reportedly in a stable condition after suffering a head injury and cuts to his right hand.
The Palestinian foreign ministry in Ramallah said 10 people had been killed in the airstrike, with many more wounded. The ministry called al-Faqawi’s death an act of “extrajudicial killing,” labelling it part of growing crimes against journalists and an attempt to prevent the media from covering events on the ground.
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