Gaza officials say that four of the 15 journalists were killed in the Israeli strike in the hospital star-news.press/wp

At least 15 people, including four journalists working in the international media, were reported in an Israeli strike in a hospital in the southern Gaza Strip.

It was among them, and it is among them. It is not clear who worked as the fourth journalist.

The Hamas civil defense said that many people were killed in an initial blow, and others in a second that happened when rescuers attended the scene.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) says that the investigation is taking place in its hospital attack. He added that “journalists do not target this way” – but he did not give details about the strike.

The latest deaths bring the number of journalists who have been killed in Gaza since the beginning of the war there in October 2023 to nearly 200.

According to the CPJ, a leading body that promotes freedom of the press, the war in Gaza was the bloody conflict of journalists ever. It says that more of the press members have been killed there in the past two years than that has been killed all over the world in the previous three years.

International journalists have been prevented by Israel from entering the Gaza Strip independently since the beginning of the war.

Some journalists have been transferred to Gaza by the Israeli Defense Army under the possibility of controlled access, but the international media relies on local correspondents for most of their coverage in Gaza.

Hamas, the Ministry of Health, said that people were killed when a missile arrived on the fourth floor, followed by a second missile at the same place when the rescuers arrived.

In a video of the scene, a doctor stands at the entrance to the hospital – the main in southern Gaza – is blooded clothes to show journalists in the wake of the first strike. Suddenly there is an explosion, sending people running to the cover while breaking the glass. A man is seen in the explosion trying to pull himself into safety.

In other shots, white and gray smoke can be seen as an upward level of the hospital where the damage is clear. Abroad, people run and scream in chaos, where ambulances can be heard.

Reuters news agency said that her photographer, Mamama Al -Masry, was among the dead and was injured by Hatem Khaled.

The agency said it is destroyed and “urgently seeks more information.”

AP said that Maryam Daga, an independent journalist working on it, was also killed. The news agency said it was “shocked and saddened” from the death of 33 years.

Among the others, Muhammad Salama from Al -Jazeera and the photographer is parallel to Abu Taha. The American television network NBC said that Tha is not working for it, as it was initially reported.

The Civil Defense said that 15 people were killed, including one of its members, according to Agence France -Presse News Agency.

The Monday’s attack comes two weeks after six journalists, including four from the island, were He was killed in an Israeli targeted attack Near the Shiva Hospital in Gaza City.

the The United Nations Human Rights Office condemned this attackShe described it as a serious breach of international law.

The Israeli Defense Army said that it had targeted Anas al -Sharif, a prominent prominent correspondent, who claimed that he was “the head of a terrorist cell in Hamas.”

CPJ said that Israel failed to provide evidence to support its allegations.

The war arose through the Hamas attack led by Hamas on Israel on October 7, where about 1,200 people and 251 others were killed in Gaza hostile.

Israel responded with a huge military attack, which killed more than 62,686 Palestinians, according to figures from the Hamas Ministry of Health in Gaza, which the United Nations considers reliable.