{"id":91339,"date":"2025-08-25T09:41:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T09:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/91339\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T09:41:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T09:41:09","slug":"four-journalists-among-15-dead-in-israeli-strike-on-hospital-gaza-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/91339\/","title":{"rendered":"Four journalists among 15 dead in Israeli strike on hospital, Gaza officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yolande Knell<\/p>\n<p>BBC News, Jerusalem<\/p>\n<p>Raffi Berg<\/p>\n<p>BBC News, London<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1755937268_113_grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-d1200759-0 dkIvM hide-when-no-script\" aria-label=\"image unavailable\"\/><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/01d01320-8191-11f0-843f-7b3b652c1219.jpg.webp.webp\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"Getty Images An injured emergency worker is led away by two other emergency workers. There is rubble and wreckage behind them. He is badly hurt. \" class=\"sc-d1200759-0 dvfjxj\"\/>Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">At least 15 people, including four journalists working for the international media, are reported to have been killed in an Israeli strike on a hospital in the southern Gaza Strip. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Reuters said one its cameramen was killed in the attack at Nasser Hospital. The other three are reported to have worked for Al Jazeera, Associated Press and NBC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Several people were killed in an initial strike, and others in a second which happened as rescuers attended the scene, the Hamas-run Civil Defence said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The Israeli military and the prime minister&#8217;s office said they had no immediate comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Footage shows smoke rising up from the main hospital in southern Gaza.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">In one video as a doctor holds up bloodied clothes to show journalists, there is another strike. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Reuters news agency said its cameraman, Husam al-Masri, was among those killed. The others are said to have been Mohammed Salameh working for Al Jazeera, Mariam Abu Daqa a journalist with the Associated Press, and photographer Muath Abu Taha, employed by the American TV Network NBC. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yolande Knell BBC News, Jerusalem Raffi Berg BBC News, London Getty Images At least 15 people, including four&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-91339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}