Funerals for journalists killed in Israel strike on hospital
發佈日期: 2025-08-26 00:12
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At least four journalists working in Gaza were among 20 people killed in an Israeli strike on a hospital.
Reporters and camera operators from Associated Press, Reuters and Al Jazeera died as Israel is accused of targeting those who work in the media.
(Reports contains footage some viewers may find distressing.)
Journalists film as colleagues are killed. "We just got hit, now now" a voice yells in the background.
People trying to escape the Israeli drone attack, running for cover.
Another strike hit this hospital again a few minutes later.
Israel's military says it carried out the strike "regrets harm" and " does not target journalists as such."
Director of Reporters Without Borders, Thibault Bruttin, speaking Paris says: "According to the information we're still collecting, there has been two strikes, that killed four journalists and the first one was deliberately targeting via drone, a suicide drone, it was targeting the third floor of a hospital that is known for being a place where journalists work and eight minutes after in a double blast effect, there was a second strike that killed even more people.
AP freelancer Mariam Dagga was among those killed.
The damaged camera the 33-year-old had been using when she died was shown to her colleagues at Associated Press who then filmed her funeral.
After stroking her face earlier in this video, which we have not shown,her father, Riyad Dagga, stands near the body
Prayers took place for the mother of a thirteen-year-old.
The journalist was known to frequently work out of Nasser hospital with other media members.
The AP said "shocked and saddened."
Al Jazeera and Reuters confirmed their journalists and freelancers were also among those killed.
We need to hear stronger voices to hold Israel accountable. The Israel Defence Forces are deliberately targeting journalists," Bruttin says,"It's made possible because of a smear campaign that is partly working, that is partly efficient in trying to say that journalists operating in Gaza are not proper journalists, would not be professional ones.
The journalists that we're talking about today, some of the four ones that have been killed today are journalists that work for Reuters, for AP, for very legitimate professional legacy media." Bruttin said
Mariam worked on stories like this: filming these shots of starving babies earlier this month.
Highlighting their plight at the hospital and prompting a UN panel to declare a famine in northern Gaza.
This story may have got her killed.
The body of Mariam Dagga carried to be buried.
The mourners shout "God loves martyrs."
