Three journalists among the five dead in the Israeli strike at Gaza Hospital

Five people were killed in an Israeli strike at Al -Ahly Hospital in Gaza City, according to the Anglican Church that it runs.

The Architectural Jerusalem diocese said that three journalists, a father accompanying his son to surgery, and another person died on Thursday morning when the hospital complex was exposed.

The “strongest possible conditions” condemned the attack, which was also wounded by 30 passers -by, including four hospital employees. The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate accused Israel of a “complete war crime.”

The Israeli army said it was “strictly hit” a Palestinian Islamic jihad fighter working from a command center inside the hospital square.

This came on the same day that more than 130 international news organization and freedom of the press – including the BBC – called on the international media outlets their immediate access to Gaza and Palestinian journalists are granted full protection.

“For 20 months, the Israeli authorities refused to grant journalists outside the arrival of the independent Gaza to the Palestinian territories – a non -precedent position in the modern war,” They wrote in a coordinated letter by the Committee to protect journalists and journalists without limits.

“Local journalists, those who put in their position in the truth, face displacement and hunger. So far, nearly 200 journalists have been killed by the Israeli army.

“Many have been wounded and face continuous threats to their lives to take their jobs: the witness. This is a direct attack on the freedom of the press and the right to information.”

There was no immediate comment from the Israeli army or government. They previously denied that the Israeli forces targeted journalists.

The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate said that the Israeli strike in the Al -Ahly Hospital complex targeted a direct media tent.

Video footage showed nurses and other harders who rush to help the loss of the ground under a tree in the courtyard and carry at least four of them in a medical tent.

“The Israeli plane suddenly attacked these colleagues,” Palestinian journalist Mohamed Ahmed told Reuters at the scene. “Three of them (they were) were martyred, in addition to a number of martyrs between passers -by.”

“The Israeli occupation forces increase their attacks on us as journalists, in an attempt to prevent us from doing our work,” this is what it claims.

The Journalists Syndicate has identified the three dead journalists as Ismail Badah, a photographer of the PIG TV, Suleiman Hajjaj, the editor of Palestine today, and Samir Al -Rifai from the Shams News Network.

Four other journalists, two of them – were wounded today, a client of Palestine today, Daloul and Ahmed Sella, a photographer of Al -Arabi TV in Qatar – in critical condition.

The Israeli army said in a statement that it “strictly struck a terrorist Islamic jihad that was working in the command and control center” in the hospital yard. You did not call the goal or provide any evidence.

The army also accused the armed groups using the higher for “terrorist activity” and “with irony and brutality using the civilian population” at home – a claim that it denied.

In April, employees at Al -Ahly Hospital said an Israeli strike destroyed its laboratory and wrapped the emergency room. They did not report any injuries directly, but they said that the child died due to the disruption of care. The Israeli army said it struck Hamas, “the command and control center.”

Hospitals are specially protected under international humanitarian law. They only lose this protection in certain circumstances, including its use as a base to launch an attack, an arms depot, or to hide healthy fighters.

The Hamas Civil Defense Agency said that the Israeli strikes killed at least 37 people throughout Gaza on Thursday. In addition to Gaza City, the local media reported the death of Gabalia and Beit Lahia in the north, and in Khan Yunis in the south.

Also on Thursday, an American and Israeli assistant group supported in Gaza said that it had reopened two of its distribution centers, a day after they closed “renewal.”

“Over the past 24 hours, we have completely focused on strengthening our distribution sites to ensure that safe and more efficient aid to save life to the people of Gaza,” John Akri, the temporary executive director of the Gaza Humanitarian Corporation (GHF, said in a statement.

On Wednesday, GHF announced that it was closing all of its locations – three out of four of which were working – to make it “safe as possible” after a series of deadly dead accidents.

Dozens of Palestinians have been killed in recent days, while they approached a center in a welfare on a road that passes through an Israeli military zone.

Witnesses said that the Israeli forces opened fire on the crowds seeking help.

The Israeli army denied that he shot civilians inside the center, but said that the forces that fired “the suspects” who ignored the warning footage and approached them.

GHF denied that anyone was killed or injured in his positions.

The group, which uses American private security contractors, aims to overcome the United Nations as a major resource for aid to Palestinians.

The United Nations and other relief groups refuse to cooperate with the new regime, saying that it contradicts the humanitarian principles of neutrality, neutrality and independence.

They also warn that the 2.1 million people of Gaza are facing catastrophic levels of hunger after nearly three months of the Israeli siege, which was partially reduced two weeks ago.

The United States and Israel say the GHF system will prevent the aid stolen by Hamas, which the group denies.

Separately, the Israeli army said The bodies of two Israeli Americans who returned to Gaza have regained hostage During the Hamas -led attack on southern Israel on October 7, 2023.

Israel launched a military campaign in Gaza in response to the attack, where about 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were taken into account.

At least 54,677 people have been killed in Gaza since then, according to the Hamas Ministry of Health in the region.