Defenders say that Israel kills and stays away from journalists.

A day and a half after an Israeli “dual” fight in a hospital in Gaza was killed five Palestinian journalists with 15 paramedics and other civilians, the Israeli Defense Forces eventually raised more questions than he answered.

Statement “A camera was placed by Hamas,” which is located on one of the upper floors of Nasser Hospital, which must be taken out. So the strike was declared.

In fact, Reuters news agency says that the camera that was hit by them, not enthusiasm, and its empty summary increased with the scalp. The camera operator, Hauteam Al -Massari, 49, was a Reuters contractor who worked in the agency for 11 years, from the first to kill that day.

After moments, he will follow more.

When rescuers, physicians and more journalists arrived at the stairs where the first explosion hit, Gunners IDF fired another shell at the same site.

This second strike was more destroyed and intense, as the hospital’s rescue teams were joining alongside four other journalists: Mariam Abu Daga, 33, who the independent Associated Press said to the agency; Muhammad Naama, 24, who said Al -Jazeera, who is based in Qatar, worked in the broadcaster; Ahmed Abu Aziz, 29, from Ain Al -Sharq Al -Awsat; Abu Taha, 27, was also published by Reuters.

The IDF statement does not mention a necessary reason for the aim of the site when civilians were clearly present.

There was no mention of the second shell.

It was clear that within moments of that first blow, rescuers and more journalists would arrive at the scene. Why were they deliberately expelled? Who gave this? What is the punishment, if any, will be imposed on those responsible for leaving 20 people to tear them and be buried in the rubble?

Reactions around the world

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada, Annid, He said She was “terrified” by attack. British Prime Minister Kiir Starmer described him as “it cannot be fully defended.”

However, the statement of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu formulated the incident in a less urgent tone, describing it as a “tragic accident.”

This was not an accident. They accused Israel of launching a deliberate war against journalists to silence the voices and accounts that come out of Gaza.

“This is deliberate targeting for reporters,” said Pamela Morerier of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), based in Brussels, whose group described the Israeli strategy “Medicide”.

Dozens of members held a protest outside the IFJ offices in the wake of the attack.

“There was a double blow – targeted. There is no doubt about it.”

In Khan Yunis, Marwan Al -Ghoul, who provides reports and materials for American broadcaster CBS News, was part of a similar protest by journalists in Gaza City.

“Israel is targeting journalists in Gaza to hide the crimes taking place in the Gaza Strip,” he said.

“Our message is clear. We need protection.”

Without reporting the Palestinian journalists in Gaza, there will be no coverage of the impact of the war and its terrible impact on Palestinian civilians.

The Israeli Defense Army refused to allow foreign journalists to enter Gaza from their reports, despite the frequent pressure by the Israeli Foreign Press Association to lift the ban.

Huge risks

Of course, journalists in Gaza are not reports about the story of the Israeli attacks, which lasted for nearly two years on the Palestinian enclave. They are also trying to survive.

“As the Palestinian journalists who are still working on the ground and despite hunger, hunger and famine, we are still doing our work despite all these risks around us,” said Gad Al -Kard, who was among those who appear in Khan Yunis.

“We will continue our work to show the world the crimes against us as journalists and Palestinians.”

more From 62,000 people He has been killed in Gaza over the past two years, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza, which says about half of the dead were women and children. However, repeated targeting and killing of journalists often emerge from daily headlines and receive more comprehensive coverage.

the The Journalists Protection Committee says 197 journalists have been killed since October 2023 in the occupied West Bank, Lebanon, Syria and Gaza – the vast majority of Israeli fire.

“The battle around the narration has gone alongside the battle on the ground,” said Dina Mattar, a professor at the World Media and Communications Center in London.

“This is not just a strategy to control the narration, but to control the field of production of production and silence Palestinian votes from the land, ensuring the domination of its narration (Israeli),” Mattar said in an email interview with CBC News.

Despite the latest and sustainable international protest and gaps in the official IDF version of what happened, most Israelis do not seem to share the same anger.

HaritzThe Israeli publisher with the leftist tendencies, which was a fierce critic of Netanyahu, indicated that even Israeli journalists tend to indifferent to the issue of their Palestinian counterparts.

One of the prominent Israeli commentators and analyst CBC News told the Israelis still tend to believe that the issuance of the events of the Israeli Defense Army and the acceptance of the explanations presented.

“Israel does not target journalists,” said Hin Mazij, the former Israeli defense commander who is now working as a senior researcher at the Tel Aviv Institute, who focuses on studies related to communication and social media in Israel. a period “.

“I really think, from my experience with the Israeli Defense Army, the Israeli Defense Army soldier will not target a journalist,” CBC News told CBC News.

“If journalists are killed, this is because Hamas turned Gaza into a battlefield where civilians and correspondents are arrested in an exchange of fire.”

In its statement on Tuesday, the IDF confirmed its return to protect civilians, saying: “The Chief of the General Staff confirmed that the Israeli Defense Army directs its activities only towards the military targets.”

Hamas novels?

The dominant opinion in Israel is that the international criticism of how the Israeli Defense Army was fueled by Hamas accounts, and its journalists and its journalists were echoed by Palestinian journalists in Gaza.

Mazej said he believed that the Israeli scrutiny and its army had been attached to them unprecedented and that the Israeli Defense Army has repeatedly provided enough to justify its actions.

Before the killing of the five journalists at Nasser Hospital, the 28 -year -old Al -Jazeera correspondent was killed by the Al -Jazeera Al -Sharif, a 28th condemnation from the media, foreign governments and press groups. He died in a targeted Israeli strike on August 10.

The Israeli Defense Army claimed that the Sharif was not just a work in Hamas. He also said that he led what they described as a “terrorist cell” and was wearing a salary from the armed group.

Al-Jazeera strongly denied these allegations and demanded the issuance of the release of the Israeli Defense Army for any of the alleged crimes of Sharif-which he did not do so.

Inside Israel, however, there are few general demands for accountability.

“Why do we give more enthusiasm for Hamas’s data than the Israeli army?” Mazz said.

“We know that there is a lot of wrong information that is published and I think we are trusting … the Israeli Defense Army will perform due care and investigation into every incident.”

Israeli Defense Army The first statement About the accident on Monday, I used similar words.

“As a professional army committed to international law, we are obligated to investigate our operations accurately and professionally,” the dean. Evie Defern said in the statement.

The statement did not mention that in light of international humanitarian law, Israel is obligated to avoid civil deaths in the first place.

the I criticized united Notelshas again and again Israel for use in random and inverted use of the force that caused unnecessary civil deaths, and in its evaluation.

Several other international human rights groups also say that since October 7, 2023, the subsequent Hamas and Israel attacks, there are few cases where Israeli officers and leaders were responsible for killing civilians in Gaza.

The work on armed violence, a British -based non -governmental organization, says Israel has claimed that it has Conduct 52 military investigations In the crimes of the alleged war in Gaza and the occupied West Bank. Among them, she says that 88 percent have ended or have not yet produced any discovery of violations.

The group says that the cases collectively included the death of 1303 people and resulted in only one Israeli sending to prison for their actions.

Its operations in escaping the impunity said that it undermines repeated claims by the Israeli Defense Army that its operations are governed by the highest standards of international humanitarian law. Group report, It was issued in early August.

The Israeli Human Rights Group also I found a similar pattern When the Israeli Defense Army and the violence of the settlers against the Palestinians examined the occupied West Bank, where it claimed that “the Israeli authorities are unable or unwilling to implement the law to Israelis who harm the Palestinians and their property.”

Although the government of Canada has Many Israeli cabinet ministers imposed To encourage and spread violence against the Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, defenders of Prime Minister Mark Carney and his government want to go further and impose sanctions heavier on the actions of the Israeli Defense Army in Gaza.

The London -based press professor, despite the promises of the Israeli Defense Army to the open investigation into the killing of Nasser Hospital, does not expect officials to face repercussions.

She said: “It is very disappointing that there is no valid or reliable response to these attacks, regardless of the words of conviction.”

“This is part of Israel’s continuous novel – that everything and everyone is enthusiasm – in order to continue to receive support from its Western allies.”