Israel killed five journalists when it attacked Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis on Monday using a ‘double-tap’ attack.
Israel has been widely condemned for an attack its forces conducted on Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis that killed at least 21 people, including five journalists, one of whom worked for Al Jazeera.
The attack on Monday consisted of two strikes – or a ‘double tap’ – the second of which was captured on camera, showing journalists and rescuers on a staircase being directly hit.
Israel has now killed more than 270 journalists and media workers in Gaza since its war started in October 2023. The journalists killed in the Nasser Hospital attack were not even all of those killed by Israel on Monday – a sixth journalist, Hassan Douhan, who worked as a correspondent for Al-Hayat al-Jadida newspaper, was killed in a separate incident in Khan Younis later on Monday.
The journalists killed were part of an increasingly close-knit but dwindling media community in Gaza. They had already endured almost two years of war, which had affected not just their work but also their personal lives.
