Overview

• Two strikes hit the fourth and top floors of Nasser Hospital’s emergency building in Khan Younis, with witnesses reporting the second blast struck the same spot as the first.
• Abu Daqqa, 33, was killed alongside four other journalists while responding to earlier blasts at the hospital, where reporters, firefighters, and patients had gathered.
• Independent Arabia confirmed Abu Daqqa’s death and noted she had also worked as a freelancer for the Associated Press during nearly two years of frontline reporting.
• The Israel Defense Forces said it regrets harm to uninvolved individuals and stated it does not target journalists.
• Press freedom groups condemned the killings, and CPJ’s running tally places the number of media workers killed in the war near 200, most of them Palestinian journalists.