{"id":65260,"date":"2025-08-26T05:04:32","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T05:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deshmediabd.com\/?p=65260"},"modified":"2025-08-26T05:04:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T05:04:32","slug":"five-journalists-among-20-killed-in-israeli-strikes-on-gaza-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/?p=65260","title":{"rendered":"Five journalists among 20 killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gaza&#8217;s civil defence agency said five journalists were among at least 20 people killed Monday when Israeli strikes hit a hospital in the south, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressing regret over the &#8220;tragic mishap&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters, the Associated Press and Al Jazeera all issued statements mourning their slain contributors, while the Israeli military said it would investigate the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The ongoing war in Gaza has been one of the deadliest for journalists, with around 200 media workers killed over the course of the nearly two-year Israeli assault, according to media watchdogs.<\/p>\n<p>Civil defence spokesman Mahmud Bassal said &#8220;the toll so far is 20 martyrs, including five journalists and one member of the civil defence&#8221;, after strikes hit Khan Yunis&#8217;s Nasser Hospital &#8212; a large medical complex that has been targeted several times by Israel since the start of the war.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the Israeli military said its troops had &#8220;carried out a strike in the area of Nasser Hospital&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Chief of the General Staff instructed to conduct an initial inquiry as soon as possible,&#8221; it said, adding it &#8220;regrets any harm to uninvolved individuals and does not target journalists as such&#8221;.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/news-flash\/305306\">\u09ac\u09bf\u09b8\u09cd\u09a4\u09be\u09b0\u09bf\u09a4<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gaza&#8217;s civil defence agency said five journalists were among at least 20 people killed Monday when Israeli strikes hit a hospital in the south, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressing regret over the &#8220;tragic mishap&#8221;. Reuters, the Associated Press and Al Jazeera all issued statements mourning their slain contributors, while the Israeli military said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-4","category-14"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65262,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65260\/revisions\/65262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/65261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}