The Coalition to Protect Journalists (CJP) During the Second Israeli Militant War in Gaza, the UN Human Rights Commission (HRC) says
The Committee to Protect Journalists says more than 130 Palestinian reporters have been killed since the war began. Israel hasn’t allowed foreign reporters to enter Gaza except on military embeds.
Many young men are crying while attending the funeral outside the hospital. The bodies were all wrapped in white shrouds, with blue press vests draped over them.
The war started when a group of Islamic Jihad fighters attacked southern Israel. Associated Press footage showed the incinerated shell of a van, with press markings still visible on the back doors.
The car was hit by the strike outside the hospital. The journalists were working for local news outlet Al-Quds Today, a television channel affiliated with the Islamic Jihad militant group.
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — An Israeli strike killed five Palestinian journalists outside a hospital in the Gaza Strip overnight, the Health Ministry said early Thursday. The Israeli military said it had targeted a group of militants.
A reserve soldier was killed in fighting in central Gaza early Thursday, the military said. A total of 389 soldiers have been killed in Gaza since the start of the ground operation over a year ago.
The war began when Hamas-led militants stormed across the border in a surprise attack on nearby army bases and farming communities. They killed some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducted around 250. Some 100 hostages are still inside Gaza, at least a third of whom are believed to be dead.
98% of the population of 2.3 million have been driven from their homes because of the offensive. Hundreds of thousands are packed into squalid tent camps along the coast, with little protection from the cold, wet winter.
The Palestinian Health Ministry reported Thursday that eight Palestinians were killed in Israeli military operations in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday. The Israeli military said that it opened fire after militants attacked soldiers, and it was aware of uninvolved civilians who were harmed in the raid.
U.N. Secretary of State Richard E. Tedros Tells Netanyahu on Monday: “The Houthi Attack on Yemen is Coming to an End”
The U.N. Security Council has scheduled an emergency meeting Monday in response to an Israeli request that the council condemn the Houthi attacks and Iran for supplying them weapons.
Multiple deaths were reported by the satellite channel al-Masirah. Iran’s foreign ministry condemned the strikes. The U.S. military has targeted Yemen’s government in recent days.
The U.N. has noted that the targeted ports are important entryways for humanitarian aid for Yemen, the poorest Arab nation that plunged into a civil war in 2014.
The strikes, carried out over 1,000 miles from Jerusalem, came a day after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said “the Houthis, too, will learn what Hamas and Hezbollah and Assad’s regime and others learned” as his military has battled those more powerful proxies of Iran.
There was no response from Israel’s military to questions about Tedros’ post and it said it had “capabilities to strike very far away from Israel’s territory.”
He added that he and U.N. colleagues were safe. “We will need to wait for the damage to the airport to be repaired before we can leave,” he said, without mentioning the source of the bombardment. There is an injured person with the U.N. Humanitarian Air Service.
The runway and the air traffic control tower were damaged while we were there, according to Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.