Strikes carried out by the navy on Nasser Hospital within the Khan Younis space of the southern Gaza Strip on Monday morning killed no less than 20 individuals, together with 5 journalists, based on media experiences and the Hamas-run well being ministry.
The Israel Protection Forces, some three hours after the experiences of the assault emerged, confirmed that troops had carried out a strike within the space.
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 mentioned journalists and different individuals had additionally rushed to the positioning of the primary strike.
The Reuters reside video feed from the hospital, which was operated by one of many journalists who was killed, out of the blue shut down in the mean time of the preliminary strike.
A navy official informed The Instances of Israel that the assault was not carried out by the Israeli Air Pressure, indicating it was doubtless carried out by floor forces.
IDF Chief of Employees Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir ordered a right away inquiry into the strike, the navy mentioned, with out offering additional particulars.
One of many Israeli strikes on the Nasser hospital complicated was captured on reside video as rescue crews arrived on the scene of an Israeli strike minutes earlier than. pic.twitter.com/uysRPPkl4E
— Trey Yingst (@TreyYingst) August 25, 2025
“The IDF regrets any hurt to uninvolved [civilians] and under no circumstances directs strikes at journalists,” the IDF mentioned, including that it really works to “reduce hurt to them whereas safeguarding the safety of our forces.”
In response to the International Press Affiliation, the strikes “hit the outside staircase of the hospital the place journalists regularly stationed themselves with their cameras. The strikes got here with no warning.”
“We demand a right away rationalization from the Israel Protection Forces and the Israeli Prime Minister’s Workplace. We name on Israel as soon as and for all to halt its abhorrent follow of concentrating on journalists,” the group mentioned, leveling an accusation that Israel strenuously denies.
Palestinians collect outdoors Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, within the southern Gaza Strip, on August 25, 2025, following Israeli strikes that have been mentioned to go away no less than 20 lifeless, together with journalists. (Picture by AFP)
“This has gone on far too lengthy. Too many journalists in Gaza have been killed by Israel with out justification,” the assertion continued, noting that “Israel continues to dam worldwide journalists from unbiased entry to Gaza.
“This should be a watershed second. We attraction to worldwide leaders: do all the pieces you possibly can to guard our colleagues. We can not do it ourselves,” the affiliation concluded.
Journalists affiliated with Reuters, AP, and Al Jazeera killed
Cameraman Hussam al-Masri, a Reuters contractor, was killed within the first strike, based on Palestinian officers. Photographer Hatem Khaled, who was additionally a Reuters contractor, was wounded in a second strike on the hospital, they mentioned.
“We’re devastated to be taught of the dying of Reuters contractor Hussam al-Masri and accidents to a different of our contractors, Hatem Khaled, in Israeli strikes on the Nasser hospital in Gaza as we speak,” a Reuters spokesperson mentioned in a press release.
Masri operated a Reuters reside video feed from the hospital, which out of the blue shut down in the mean time of the preliminary strike, Reuters reported. The information company mentioned it had regularly broadcast a feed from Nasser Hospital throughout the Gaza battle, and for the previous a number of weeks had been delivering every day feeds from the place that was hit.
“We’re urgently looking for extra info and have requested authorities in Gaza and Israel to assist us get pressing medical help for Hatem,” the Reuters spokesperson mentioned.
استشهاد أربعة صحفيين باستهداف مستشفى ناصر في #غزة
حسام المصري، مصور صحفي مع وكالة رويترز للأنباء.
محمد سلامة، مصور صحفي مع قناة الجزيرة.
مريم أبو دقة، صحفية مع عدة وسائل إعلام بينها اندبندنت عربية وAP.
معاذ أبو طه، صحفي مع شبكة NBC الأمريكية. pic.twitter.com/bphE5WfZbp— Khaled Drareni (@khaleddrareni) August 25, 2025
The Related Press mentioned it was “shocked and saddened” to be taught of the dying of Mariam Dagga, 33, a visible journalist who freelanced for the company because the begin of the battle.
Well being officers in Gaza named the opposite two journalists as Mohammed Salama, who Qatar-based Al Jazeera mentioned labored for the broadcaster, and Moaz Abu Taha.
A rescue employee was additionally amongst these killed, the well being officers added.
Palestinian journalists group says 240 killed since battle’s begin
The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate condemned Israel for the strikes, saying it represented “an open battle in opposition to free media, with the intention of terrorizing journalists and stopping them from fulfilling their skilled obligation of exposing its crimes to the world.”
In response to the group, greater than 240 Palestinian journalists have been killed by Israeli hearth in Gaza because the battle began on October 7, 2023 with the Hamas terror group’s invasion, bloodbath, and hostage-taking in southern Israel.
Palestinian medics evacuate a member of the territory’s civil protection company who was wounded in Israeli strikes on Nasser hospital in Khan Younis within the southern Gaza Strip on August 25, 2025; the company, which is run by Hamas, mentioned 20 have been killed, together with journalists. (AFP)
Israel, which says it has no coverage of concentrating on journalists, has asserted that among the journalists killed all through the battle were in fact combatants. In some circumstances, the navy has offered documentation seized from terror teams in Gaza that record the journalists as fighters.
Hospitals have been frequent websites of preventing within the Gaza battle.
High Hamas official Ismail Barhoum was killed in a strike at Nasser Hospital in March. In Might, a prominent Palestinian journalist, accused of being a Hamas operative, was killed in a strike on the Khan Younis medical middle.
Hamas has up to now held hostages at Nasser Hospital, based on the IDF. Shifa Hospital, within the north of the Strip, was additionally used by Hamas to carry some hostages and as a command-and-control middle early within the battle, and was the positioning of fierce battles between Hamas fighters and IDF troops.
COGAT publishes graphic footage of Hamas hurting Gazans
Additionally Monday, the Protection Ministry’s Coordinator of Authorities Actions within the Territories (COGAT) printed graphic footage it mentioned depicts Hamas gunmen “beating, abusing, and capturing at Gaza residents throughout the Strip.”
In response to COGAT, the footage has circulated on social media in current days. COGAT didn’t present any additional particulars on the movies.
“Hamas embodies the essence of evil. The stunning footage illustrates how the terrorist group Hamas oppresses the inhabitants, abuses civilians, and makes use of unrestrained violence in opposition to individuals as a way to keep its bloody rule and consolidate its energy,” mentioned COGAT chief Maj. Gen. Ghassan Alian in a submit on X.
“Hamas as soon as once more proves that it doesn’t signify the residents of Gaza — it guidelines over them with pressure, concern, and cruelty,” he added.
