GAZA,(Palestine Foundation Information Center ) Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) strongly condemned the horrific Israeli attacks on the Nasser Medical Complex this morning, which killed 20 people, including five journalists, paramedics, and healthcare workers, emphasizing that Israel is deliberately targeting the only witnesses to genocide.
Jerome Grimaud, MSF’s emergency coordinator in Gaza, reported that among the victims was journalist Mariam Abu Daqqa, who had worked repeatedly with the organization. “Mariam’s child is now forced to grow up without a mother,” he said.
Grimaud described how some MSF staff were forced to shelter inside a laboratory as the Israeli military continued to bomb the facility amid rescue efforts. He voiced deep outrage at the ongoing attacks on healthcare workers and journalists, noting that the assault on humanitarian and media personnel continues with total impunity.
“Over the past twelve months, we have seen how Israeli forces leveled healthcare facilities, silenced journalists, and buried healthcare workers under rubble,” Grimaud added.
He called for an end to the genocide in Gaza and for Israel to be held accountable. “As long as Israel continues to disregard international law, it is intentionally targeting the only witnesses to its genocidal campaign. Enough.”
Early Monday morning, 20 people were martyred, including journalists and members of civil defense teams, following a double Israeli airstrike that targeted the Al-Yassin building inside the Nasser Medical Complex in southern Gaza, broadcast live on air.
While rescue teams were retrieving victims and the wounded from beneath the rubble, Israeli forces launched a second air raid on the same location, resulting in a horrifying massacre that struck rescue teams, journalists, and civilians gathered at the scene.
According to the Government Media Office, this attack raised the number of journalists killed in Gaza to 246 since the start of the genocide, after the martyrdom of Hassan Douhan, a journalist working with the newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, who was shot by Israeli forces while inside his tent in the Al-Mawasi area of Khan Yunis, southern Gaza.
The Government Media Office confirmed that Palestinian journalists are being systematically targeted, calling on the International Federation of Journalists, the Arab Journalists Union, and all global media institutions to condemn these crimes and hold Israel, the U.S. administration, and other participant countries like the U.K., Germany, and France fully accountable.
The office demanded that the international community prosecute the Israeli occupation in international courts, stop the ongoing genocide, and protect Palestinian journalists, while praying for mercy on the martyrs and healing for the wounded reporters.
