The justification of Israel for the attack on the Gaza hospital is false, the Reuters probe finds | Gaza News

Israel falsely said that a Hamas camera was the target of a deadly strike that killed 22 people, including journalists.

The justification of Israel to bomb a Khan Younis hospital in southern Gaza, saying that it has targeted a Hamas camera, is false, according to a survey by the Reuters news agency.

Israeli forces planned the August 25 attack at Nasser hospital using drone images which, according to a military official, showed a Hamas camera who was the target of the strike. But a review Reuters of visual evidence and interviews with witnesses established that the camera in question actually belonged to the press agency and had long been used by one of its own journalists.

The “double -tape” attack killed 22 people, including five journalists – one of whom worked for Al Jazeera. Their death made the number of journalists killed in Israeli attacks against Gaza at more than 200 since the start of the genocidal war started almost two years ago.

One day after the hospital’s strike, the army said the troops had shot on a “suspect” camera draped in fabric, saying that it had been operated by Hamas. Drone sequences later showed the aircraft in a hospital stairwell, covered with a prayer mat belonging to the journalist of Reuters Hussam Al -Masri – who was killed in the strike – not Hamas, found Reuters.

At least 35 times since May, Al-Masri had positioned his camera in the same staircase to record live broadcasts distributed worldwide. He often used the carpet to protect it from heat and dust.

“The assertion that Hamas was spinning the Israeli forces of Nasser Hospital is false and manufactured,” said Ismail Al-Thawabta, head of the Gaza Government Media Office. “Israel is trying to cover a full war crime against the hospital, its patients and its medical staff.”

Reuters said he had reviewed more than 100 videos and photos of the scene and interviewed more than two dozen people to rebuild the attacks of the attack.

Ali Hachem by Al Jazeera described the staircase as “a fortune editorial room” where journalists had gathered before the strike. The live broadcast of Al-Masri froze a few moments before the explosion, who killed him with several civil defense workers. A second explosion struck while the rescuers rushed.

“We saved the martyrs and the wounded … Then a huge explosion among us,” said cameraman Reuters Hatem Khaled.

Israel has repeatedly targeted hospitals and other sites protected by international humanitarian law, including schools, shelters, mosques and churches. His attacks also killed journalists, medical staff, first stakeholders and humanitarian workers. Despite repeated world calls for investigations, Israel continues to act with impunity while carrying out a genocide in Gaza.

The Committee to protect journalists (CPJ) says that Israel has never published the results of an official survey or held no one responsible for the killings of journalists.

“None of these incidents caused a significant examination of Israel’s commitment rules, and international conviction has not caused a change in the model of journalists in the past two years,” said Sara Qudah, regional director of the CPJ for the Middle East and North Africa.