Israel’s strikes on a Gaza hospital on Monday drew strident condemnation from each allies and critics, who described their horror on the reported killing of 20 folks, together with rescue employees attempting to evacuate the wounded and 5 journalists.
US President Donald Trump was requested for his response to the strike on Khan Younis’s Nasser Hospital by a reporter within the Oval Workplace, however he stated he didn’t find out about it.
Pressed to offer a response anyway, Trump stated, “I’m not completely happy about it. I don’t need to see it.”
“On the similar time, we now have to finish that entire nightmare,” he added.
Footage confirmed rescue employees, who had arrived on the web site of an preliminary assault, engulfed in smoke and particles when a second strike hit. Witnesses stated journalists and different folks had additionally rushed to the location of the primary strike.
The Israel Protection Forces, some three hours after the studies of the assault emerged, confirmed that troops had carried out a strike within the space, and stated it had launched an inquiry into the assault.
US President Donald Trump speaks within the Oval Workplace of the White Home, August 25, 2025, in Washington. (AP/ Evan Vucci)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s workplace stated Israel “deeply regrets” the strikes, calling it a “tragic mishap.”
“Israel values the work of journalists, medical workers, and all civilians. The army authorities are conducting an intensive investigation,” learn the assertion.
“Our struggle is with Hamas terrorists. Our simply targets are defeating Hamas and bringing our hostages residence,” the PMO added.
British International Minister David Lammy wrote on X: “Horrified by Israel’s assault on Nasser hospital. Civilians, healthcare employees and journalists have to be protected. We want a right away ceasefire.”
The German International Ministry wrote on X on Monday that it was shocked by the killings on the hospital, including, “The assault have to be investigated.”
In the meantime, French President Emmanuel Macron known as the strikes “insupportable.”
Spanish International Minister Jose Manuel Albares additionally condemned the strikes.
“The Israeli assault in the present day in opposition to a hospital in Gaza and in opposition to journalists, the deaths it has brought about, the induced famine, all of those are extraordinarily critical violations of worldwide humanitarian legislation,” Albares wrote in a Spanish-language publish on X, referencing allegations of widespread hunger in Gaza, that are denied by Israel.
“The struggle in Gaza should finish now. Spain works each day for that,” added the minister.
In June, Albares requested the European Union Council to approve a right away suspension of the pact that governs the bloc’s ties with Israel over what he known as human rights violations in Gaza, and stated he would additionally search approval for an embargo on weapons bought to Israel and sanctions on people working in opposition to the two-state answer.
Turkey’s presidential communications workplace on Monday stated the strikes on Gaza’s Nasser Hospital have been “an assault on press freedom and one other struggle crime.”
“Israel, which continues its atrocities with out regard for any humanitarian or authorized ideas, is beneath the phantasm that it may forestall the reality from being revealed by way of its systematic assaults on journalists,” Burhanettin Duran, head of the communications directorate, stated in a publish on X.
Palestinians collect outdoors Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis within the southern Gaza Strip on August 25, 2025, following Israeli strikes. (AFP)
Reporters With out Borders charges press freedom in Turkey 159th out of 180 international locations it polls.
High United Nations officers additionally slammed the strikes, insisting that journalists and hospitals ought to by no means be focused.
United Nations Secretary-Normal Antonio Guterres strongly condemned the strikes, spokesperson Stephane Dujarric stated.
“The secretary-general recollects that civilians, together with medical personnel and journalists, have to be revered and guarded always. He requires a immediate, neutral investigation into these killings,” Dujarric advised reporters.
“The killing of journalists in Gaza ought to shock the world — not into surprised silence, however into motion, demanding accountability and justice,” UN rights workplace spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani stated in a press release, insisting: “Journalists usually are not a goal. Hospitals usually are not a goal.”
Philippe Lazzarini, the top of the UN company for Palestinian refugees, individually decried what he says is “stunning” world inaction over the Gaza battle.
He accused Israel of “silencing the final remaining voices reporting about kids dying silently amid famine,” in a publish on X.
#Gaza: extra journalists killed in the present day.
Silencing the final remaining voices reporting about kids dying silently amid #famine .The world’s indifference & inaction is stunning.
Like Hannah Arendt stated: “The demise of human empathy is likely one of the earliest and most telling indicators…
— Philippe Lazzarini (@UNLazzarini) August 25, 2025
The top of the World Well being Group stated 50 folks have been wounded within the strikes, together with critically in poor health sufferers who had already been receiving care.
“Whereas folks in #Gaza are being starved, their already restricted entry to well being care is being additional crippled by repeated assaults,” WHO Director-Normal Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stated on X. “We can’t say it loudly sufficient: STOP assaults on well being care. Ceasefire now!”
The International Press Affiliation stated it’s “outraged and in shock” by the strike.
“A gaggle of journalists from a number of main worldwide information retailers — together with Reuters, AP, and Al Jazeera — have been killed collectively in Israeli army strikes,” stated the FPA, which represents journalists working for worldwide media in Israel, the West Financial institution, and the Gaza Strip.
“That is among the many deadliest Israeli assaults on journalists working for worldwide media for the reason that Gaza struggle started,” it stated.
“These strikes hit the outside staircase of the hospital the place journalists incessantly stationed themselves with their digital camera,” the FPA stated, including that they occurred “with no warning.”
The group demanded a proof from the IDF and the Prime Minister’s Workplace and an finish to Israel’s “abhorrent observe of concentrating on journalists.”
“This has gone on far too lengthy. Too many journalists in Gaza have been killed by Israel with out justification,” it stated, including an enchantment to world leaders: “Do every thing you possibly can to guard our colleagues. We can’t do it ourselves.”
#Palestine????????: [UPDATE 25.08.2025] An Israeli airstrike on Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis killed 4 journalists: Hossam Al-Masri of @Reuters, Mohammed Salama of @AlJazeera, Moaz Abu Taha of @NBCNews and Maryam Abu Deqa of @AP and Impartial Arab. pic.twitter.com/OClwQ7HBBt
— IFJ (@IFJGlobal) August 25, 2025
Israel, which says it has no coverage of concentrating on journalists, has asserted that among the journalists killed all through the struggle have been the truth is combatants. In some circumstances, the army has offered documentation seized from terror teams in Gaza that checklist the journalists as fighters.
Hospitals have been frequent websites of combating within the Gaza struggle, which began on October 7, 2023, with the Hamas terror group’s invasion, bloodbath, and hostage-taking in southern Israel.
High Hamas official Ismail Barhoum was killed in a strike at Nasser Hospital in March. In Could, a prominent Palestinian journalist, accused of being a Hamas operative, was killed in a strike on the Khan Younis medical heart.
Hamas has previously held hostages at Nasser Hospital, in accordance with the IDF. Shifa Hospital, within the north of the Strip, was also used by Hamas to hold some hostages and as a command-and-control center early within the struggle, and was the location of fierce battles between Hamas fighters and IDF troops.
