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26-08-2025
GAZA STRIP: Press freedom groups and rights advocates express outrage over Israel’s killing of five Palestinian journalists, including one from Al Jazeera, in an attack that killed 20 people at a Gaza hospital.
Hussam al-Masri (Reuters), Mohammad Salama (Al Jazeera), Mariam Abu Daqqa (freelance), Ahmed Abu Aziz and Moaz Abu Taha were killed in the attack.
Doctors say there’s little they can do to stop children dying of starvation from the Israeli-engineered famine in Gaza.
Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem urges the Lebanese government to revoke its decision to disarm the group, vowing to stand against Israel’s “expansionist project”.
Israel has killed at least 62,744 people and wounded 158,259 in its war on Gaza. A total of 1,139 people were killed in Israel during Hamas-led attacks on October 7, 2023, and more than 200 were taken captive.
In final report, slain journalist Mariam Abu Daqqa wrote of famine
Among the five journalists killed in this morning’s attack on Nasser Hospital, Mariam Abu Daqqa wrote about the ongoing famine in Khan Younis in her very last piece for The Associated Press.
Two weeks ago, Daqqa wrote about two-and-a-half-year-old Ro’a Mashi, who had her “eyes sunken in her skull” after she died from malnutrition at Nasser Hospital, as food deliveries are not enough to feed the enclave’s population, and the little that does come in is being sold for high prices.
Amid the ongoing Israeli attacks, Ro’a’s treatment with nutritional supplements was interrupted, and her family was forcibly displaced “multiple times” and surviving off one meal a day.
“Two weeks ago, they moved into the tent camps of Al Mawasi on Gaza’s southern coast. Ro’a’s decline accelerated,” Daqqa wrote.
Ro’a’s mother told Daqqa she could tell “it was only a matter of two or three more days” that her daughter would still be alive.
Committee to Protect Journalists says murder of reporters must end now
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has condemned the Israeli attack that killed five journalists at Nasser Hospital, calling for the international community to hold Israel accountable for its “continued unlawful attacks on the press”.
CPJ’s Regional Director Sara Qudah said Israel’s killing of journalists in the enclave continues while “the world watches and fails to act firmly on the most horrific attacks the press has ever faced in recent history.
“These murders must end now. The perpetrators must no longer be allowed to act with impunity,” Qudah said.
Palestinian Foreign Ministry urges UN Security Council to act ‘to stop the famine’
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry has called on the UN Security Council “to remain in a permanent state of alert to protect the Palestinian civilians and to stop the famine” in Gaza. In a statement on X, the ministry said the “(Israeli) occupation army, equipped with the latest weapons, continues to pursue Palestinian civilians and to impose on their lives a suffocating siege and live ammunition chokeholds”.
It accused Israel’s far-right government of “boasting about their alleged victories over Palestinian civilians” while “persisting in committing more genocide crimes in the Gaza Strip and violating the most basic human rights and international law”.
The ministry also condemned the “unleashing of armed settler militias” in the occupied West Bank, citing recent violence in al-Mughir, Deir Bassa, Kafr ad-Dik and other towns. Holding Israel “fully and directly responsible for genocide crimes, displacement, starvation and annexation”, the ministry urged the UNSC to “take binding measures … to ensure the sustainable entry of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip to stop the famine”. (Al Jazeera)
