Five journalists dead in Israeli strike on hospital

FIVE journalists were among 20 killed in Israeli military strikes on a hospital in southern Gaza.

- BY CHRIS HUGHES Defence and Security Editor

Reports from within the Strip suggest it was a doubletap killing with an initial explosion on the fourth floor of the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis which killed several, followed up by another bomb as rescuers attended to the scene.

The strikes yesterday killed Hussam al-Masri who worked for Reuters, Mariam Dagga, who worked for the Associated Press, the Al Jazeera journalist Mohammad Salama, the photojournalist Moaz Abu Taha, and Ahmad Abu Aziz from Quds Feed.

Another Reuters journalist, Hatem Khaled, was wounded in the attack.

The Israel-Hamas war has been one of the bloodiest conflicts for media, with at least 189 journalists killed in Gaza in the 22-month conflict, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.