AP Freelancer is among the 4 journalists who were killed in Israeli strikes at Gaza Hospital – Watani

Israeli strikes in the hospital in the south Gaza Four journalists were killed on Monday, including an independent worker at Associated Press, according to health officials.

Mariam Daga, 33, a visual journalist, independent of AP during the conflict, as well as other news means. AP said in a statement that she was shocked and saddened to know Daga’s death, along with other journalists.

Medical officials said that two missiles hit Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis. In all, 19 people were killed, according to Zahr Al -Wahidi, head of the records of the Ministry of Health in Gaza.

The Israel-Husab conflict was one of the bloodiest conflicts for media workers, as at least 192 Gaza journalists were killed in the 22-month conflict, according to the Committee for the Protection of Journalists. In comparison, 18 journalists have been killed so far in the Russia’s war in Ukraine, according to CPJ.

Daga, who has a 12 -year -old son who was evacuated from Gaza earlier in the conflict, often depended on herself in Nasser, and recently reported that hospital doctors are struggling to save children from hunger. Abonly Independent, the Arabic linguistic version of independent British, said Dagga also worked with the organization.

“We are doing our best to maintain the safe journalists in Gaza, where they continue to submit decisive witnesses reports in difficult and dangerous circumstances,” said AP.

Al -Jazeera confirmed that its journalist, Mohamed Salam, was also among those who were killed in Nasser’s blow. Reuters reported that her photographer, Hafam Al -Masry, was killed and wounded, the photographer, Hatem Khaled. It is not immediately clear who killed the fourth journalist.

The Israeli army said that its forces had carried out a blow in the Nasser area and that it would conduct an investigation into the incident. The army said that “any damage to non -streeted individuals does not target journalists in this way.”

Thibaut BRUTTIN, General Manager of Journalists Without Borders, said that the advocates of freedom of the press did not see such a strong step back to the safety of the correspondents. He pointed out that the journalists were killed in random strikes and in the targeted attacks confessed to the Israeli army.

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“They are doing everything they can to silence independent voices trying to report Gaza,” Bruntin said.

In some cases, as with the Al -Jazeera correspondent, Anas Al -Sharif, who was targeting him and Israel earlier this month, Israel accused journalists in Gaza of being part of the armed groups. The Israeli army confirmed that the Sharif had led the Hamas cell-a claim that the island that was rejected by the island and the Sharif as a basis.

Regardless of rare tours accompanied by guides, Israel prevented the international media from covering the conflict. Instead news organizations depend on the Palestinian journalists in Gaza – as well as the residents – to show the world what is happening there. Israel often wonders about the affiliations and biases of Palestinian journalists, but it does not allow others to enter.

Many journalists working in Gaza face the same conflicts to find food, for themselves and their families, as people covering them.

In one of the last social media publications in Daga on Sunday, she published a personal photo of herself.

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