Hassan Eslaih was killed in Nasser hospital when the injuries suffered in the previous Israeli attack.
The Israeli army admitted to having made a “targeted attack” against the Nasser medical complex in the city of Khan Younis in the south of Gaza, killing two people, including the Palestinian journalist Hassan Eslai.
The Gaza Government’s media office confirmed on Tuesday the murder of Eslaih, which received treatment at the hospital burning unit for serious injuries suffered during an Israeli strike on April 7 on a media tent located next to the hospital.
The images of the AFP news agency of the Nasser Hospital after Tuesday’s strike showed that the smoke escaping from the establishment while the rescuers trampled through the rubble by the light of the torches.
A hospital worker who gave his name Abu Ghali said that the Israeli bombardment “does not make the difference between civilians and military targets”.
“It is a civilian hospital that receives people injured 24 hours a day,” he told AFP.
Eslaih was the director of the Alam24 news agency and a freelancer who contributed to international press organizations, including photos of the October 7 attack led by Hamas.
Israel said that Eslaih was a Hamas fighter who had participated in the attack on October 7, an allegation he vehemently denied.
Dozens of journalists killed
According to the committee, at least 178 journalists and media workers have been killed in Palestine, Israel and Lebanon since the start of the war. The Gaza Government Media Office left the number of deaths at 215.
The Israeli army said in an article on Telegram that the strike was aimed at a “command and control complex” in Hamas in the hospital – the largest in the south of Gaza – without providing other evidence.
“The compound was used by the terrorists to plan and execute terrorist attacks against Israeli and [military] troops, ”said the post, in what seemed to be a reference to Eslaih and Hamas.
The Gaza Ministry of Health condemned Tuesday “the repeated targeting of hospitals and the pursuit and murder of patients injured in treatment rooms”, affirming that “confirms the deliberate intention of Israel to inflict more and more damage to the health system”.
Gaza hospitals have been a frequent target of Israeli attacks since the start of the war in October 2023, although attackers’ health establishments, medical staff and patients are illegal under the Geneva Convention in 1949.
According to Gaza officials, Israel has bombed and burned at least 36 hospitals across the enclave since the war broke out.
