Overview

• At least 20 people were killed, including freelancers Mariam Abu Dagga (AP), Hussam al‑Masri (Reuters), Mohammed Salama (Al Jazeera), Moaz Abu Taha, and Ahmed Abu Aziz, as they reported outside Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis.
• The Israeli military said the reporters were not the intended targets and that troops moved to neutralize a surveillance camera believed to be monitoring forces, while acknowledging procedural gaps in approval, timing, and munitions.
• The IDF has not released public evidence for its assessment; the U.N., Reporters Without Borders, and the Committee to Protect Journalists urged a full, transparent investigation with concrete findings.
• Witness accounts and CPJ reporting describe an initial strike that wounded a journalist followed by another blast that killed responders, and Reuters confirmed its live feed from the site cut off at the moment of the first hit.
• Press-rights groups note unprecedented media-worker deaths in Gaza—about 190 reported by CPJ and over 240 cited by the U.N.—as Israel restricts independent access and +972 reports allegations of an IDF ‘legitimization’ unit that seeks material to justify or discredit targeting of journalists.