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25 August 2025
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Summary
* The Israeli military releases conclusions following an "initial inquiry" into Monday's double strike on a hospital in Gaza that reportedly killed at least 20 people, including five journalists
* It says that "several gaps" will be examined further, including the "ammunition approved for the strike" and the "authorisation process"
* The IDF says its troops identified a camera that was positioned by Hamas in the area
* The incident, which Israel's PM Benjamin Netanyahu called a "tragic mishap", has been met with condemnation, with a spokesperson for UK PM Keir Starmer calling it "completely indefensible"
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* Israel does not allow international news organisations, including the BBC, into Gaza to report freely
Israeli strikes on southern Gaza's Nasser Hospital kill at least 20, including journalists
By Basel Hindeleh and Middle East correspondent Matthew Doran
Monday 25 August
VIDEO - Strike on Nasser Hospital in Gaza captured live on broadcast TV. (Supplied: AlGhad TV)
In short:
Two strikes on the Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza have killed at least 20 people including journalists working for world's largest media organisations.
Reuters contractor cameraman Hussam al-Masri was killed in the initial strike while Mariam Abu Dagga, freelancer for the AP, and journalist Moaz Abu Taha were killed in the second strike while inspecting the scene, which was captured on live TV.
What's next?
Israel admitted to the strikes but said it "does not target journalists as such". The actions were condemned as an attack on press freedom and healthcare.
Israel has launched a series of attacks on Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza, with local health authorities reporting at least 20 people have been killed, including five journalists.
The second strike on the fourth floor of the facility in Khan Younis was broadcast live on television, as rescue crews scoured the building to evacuate people killed and injured from the first strike minutes earlier.
Reuters contractor cameraman Hussam al-Masri, was killed in the initial strike, according to officials. Reuters said its live video feed from the hospital, which was operated by him, suddenly shut down at that moment.
Mariam Abu Dagga, who the Associated Press said freelanced for the AP, and journalist Moaz Abu Taha were killed in the second strike while inspecting the scene.
Freelance journalist Mariam Dagga had been working with the Associated Press and other outlets during the Gaza war. (AP: Jehad Alshrafi)
Palestinian cameraman Hussam al-Masri pictured while working at Nasser hospital on August 7, 2024. (Reuters)
Mohammed Salama who was a photojournalist with Al Jazeera was also killed and Ahmad Abu Aziz later died from injuries sustained in the attack.
Photographer Hatem Khaled, who is also a Reuters contractor and could be seen in the live broadcast footage wearing a red shirt and taking photos of the damage when the second strike hit, was wounded.
"We are devastated to learn of the death of Reuters contractor Hussam al-Masri and injuries to another of our contractors, Hatem Khaled, in Israeli strikes on the Nasser hospital in Gaza today," a Reuters spokesperson said in a statement.
What are double-tap strikes that Israel used to hit a hospital?
Israel’s two strikes on Nasser Hospital are part of a pattern that has run the length of the war, monitors say.
Al Nasser Hospital attack [Screengrab/Al Jazeera]
Dust and debris are scattered when Israel attacks Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis in southern Gaza [Screengrab/Al Jazeera]
By Al Jazeera Staff Published On 26 Aug 202526 Aug 2025
Israel has killed 20 people, including journalists and health workers, in a strike on Nasser Hospital in the southern Gaza Strip.
In fact, it was two strikes that hit the hospital in Khan Younis on Monday 10 minutes apart about 10am (07:00 GMT). [...] How much does Israel use it?
Israel now “routinely” uses the tactic in its war on Gaza, according to a joint investigation in July by Israeli magazines +972 and Local Call.
One source present in the military command rooms overseeing the strikes said planners know that the tactic amounts to a death sentence for the sometimes hundreds of people injured in the initial strike and their rescuers.
“If there’s a strike on a senior commander, another one will be carried out afterwards to ensure rescue efforts don’t take place,” the source explained.
“First responders, rescue teams – they kill them. They strike again, on top of them.”
VIDEO - Israel admit a mistake so either now explain it fully including all documents leading up to it or they have committed a war crime.
[INSERT: What else is new. Israel has turned their back on international law for well over 50 years. They are killing journalists at a record pace. Israel in the region and Trump in America see themselves as above all law. Why not, to date they have gotten away with it.]
Is it legal?
Not at all. [...] Rights groups, including Amnesty International, said Israel manipulates what could be claimed as a humanitarian measure by using heavier ordnance during the initial strike, in effect turning it into a double tap.
Condemning the practice during Israel’s 2014 war on Gaza, Amnesty said: “There is no way that firing a missile at a civilian home can constitute an effective ‘warning’.”
Two days after it started its current war on Gaza, Israel said it would no longer extend this warning to Palestinians. Instead, it said, text messaging and what were found to often be out-of-date maps would be used to guide civilians out of harm’s way.
Journalists killed in an Israeli strike on Nasser Hospital on August 25, 2025 [Screengrab/Al Jazeera]
What did Israel say?
In addition to saying that hitting the same hospital wing twice was a “tragic mishap”, Netanyahu claimed Israel “values the work of journalists, medical staff and all civilians”, adding: “The military authorities are conducting a thorough investigation.”
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