Overview

• Local authorities reported 19–20 dead at Khan Yunis’s Nasser Hospital, and AP and Reuters confirmed the deaths of freelancers Mariam Dagga and Hussam al-Masri, while Al Jazeera named Mohammed Salama among the victims alongside Moaz Abu Taha and Ahmad Abu Aziz.
• Eyewitness accounts and video indicated two closely timed blasts, with a second strike hitting as rescuers arrived, and the WHO reported about 50 wounded including patients.
• The IDF acknowledged the operation near the hospital, said it aimed to destroy a Hamas camera and asserted some of those killed were combatants, as Hamas and press-rights groups rejected the claim; Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir ordered a preliminary investigation and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the incident a “tragic mishap.”
• Hours after the hospital strikes, journalist Hassan Duhan was reported killed by Israeli fire in Al Mawasi, several kilometers from the site.
• Governments and organizations including Germany’s Foreign Office, the FPA, CPJ, UNRWA and the WHO condemned the deaths and demanded accountability and access for media, with CPJ noting nearly 200 journalists have been killed since the war began.