Skip next section Trump ‘not happy’ with Israeli strikes on hospital
08/25/2025August 25, 2025
Trump ‘not happy’ with Israeli strikes on hospital
US President said he is “not happy” about the Israeli strikes that killed at least 20 people, including 5 journalists, at Nasser Hospital in Gaza.
“I’m not happy about it… We have to end that nightmare,” Trump said, adding that one or two of the twenty Israeli hostages believed to be held by militant groups in Gaza are “gone.”
There are 50 Israeli hostages currently still in Gaza who were taken in the October terror attacks, with Israel earlier estimating that 20 of them are still alive.
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Skip next section UN agencies call for action after Israeli strikes on hospital
08/25/2025August 25, 2025
UN agencies call for action after Israeli strikes on hospital
The United Nations responded to the Israeli attack at the Nasser Hospital in the Gaza Strip that killed at least 20 people by insisting journalists and hospitals should not be targeted. At least five journalists have died in the Israeli strikes in southern Gaza.
“The killing of journalists in Gaza should shock the world — not into stunned silence but into action, demanding accountability and justice,” UN rights office spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani said in a statement.
“Journalists are not a target, hospitals are not a target,” she added.
Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said the strikes are “silencing the last remaining voices reporting about children dying silently amid famine.”
“This cannot be the new norm,” Lazzarini posted on his X account, also labeling the world’s “indifference and inaction” as “shocking.”
World Health Organization (WHO) head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, too, took to his X account to condemn the strikes, mentioning the aid workers hit by the Israeli army’s missiles.
“We cannot say it loudly enough: STOP the attack on health care. Ceasefire now!”
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Skip next section Wadephul criticizes Israel’s expanding offensive in Gaza
08/25/2025August 25, 2025
Wadephul criticizes Israel’s expanding offensive in Gaza
Foreign Minister has said he opposes the government’s planned new military .
Approximately 1 million people remain in City, which Israel says it plans to displace before the offensive.
“Our credibility as a global European actor depends on consistency, in defending international law, opposing terror and protecting civilian lives,” Wadephul said as he spoke at the Croatian Ambassadors’ Conference in Zagreb.
“In our view, the decision by the Israeli Cabinet to take over Gaza City and intensify ground operations does not promote either of those goals.”
Some civilians have gone to Khan Younis or Rafah in the south, but say camps remain overcrowded and lack supplies. The majority of civilians have chosen to remain in Gaza City, unsure of the safest place to be.
It is believed that continues to hold some hostages in Gaza but, with Israel claiming to have destroyed large parts of the terrorist organization’s tunnel network, it is unclear how much of the underground system remains.
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08/25/2025August 25, 2025
Foreign Press Association demands ‘immediate explanation’ from Israel over journalists’ deaths
The Foreign Press Association (FPA) demanded an “immediate explanation” for the Israeli attack which claimed the lives of five journalists at a Gazahospital.
“We demand an immediate explanation from the Israel Defense Forces and the prime minister’s office,” the group said in a statement, adding a call for Israel to “once and for all halt its abhorrent practice of targeting journalists.”
At least 19 people were killed by a double missile strike by the Israel army at Gaza’s Nasser Hospital, according to the authorities in Gaza, with four journalists being among the casualties.
After a first strike hit the top floor of a building at the hospital, a second missile hit in the same spot, after journalists and rescue workers rushed to the scene.
The Israeli army said it is looking into the incident.
According to Reporters without Borders (RSF), over 200 journalists have been killed by the Israeli military since October 2023.
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Skip next section Reuters, AP and Al Jazeera react to deaths of journalists
08/25/2025August 25, 2025
Reuters, AP and Al Jazeera react to deaths of journalists
The Reuters news agency has called on Gaza and Israel authorities to provide more information on the death of a journalist who had worked with the agency and the injury of another.
“We are devastated to learn of the death of Reuters contractor Hussam al-Masri and injuries to another of our contractors, Hatem Khaled, in Israeli strikes on the Nasser hospital in Gaza today,” a Reuters spokesperson said in a statement.
“We are urgently seeking more information and have asked authorities in Gaza and Israel to help us get urgent medical assistance for Hatem,” the spokesperson added.
The Associated Press (AP) news agency said in a statement that it was shocked and saddened to learn of the death of Mariam Dagga.
The 33-year-old visual journalist had freelanced for the agency since the start of the war, the AP said. She frequently based herself at Nasser hospital, most recently reporting on the doctors struggling to save children from starvation, the agency added.
Two other journalists were reportedly killed in the strikes in the southern city of Khan Younis in .
Al Jazeera has also condemned the killing of journalists in Khan Younis.
“Al Jazeera Media Network condemns, in the strongest possible terms, this horrific crime committed by the Israeli occupation forces, who have directly targeted and assassinated journalists as part of a systematic campaign to silence the truth,” the broadcaster said in a statement.
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Skip next section Israel says it will launch ‘initial inquiry’ after Khan Younis strike
08/25/2025August 25, 2025
Israel says it will launch ‘initial inquiry’ after Khan Younis strike
military spokesperson Nadav Shoshani confirmed that Israeli troops launched a strike “in the area of Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis” in southern Gaza on Monday.
“An initial inquiry” into the strike will be conducted as soon as possible, Shoshani said on X.
He said the Israeli Defense Force “regrets any harm to uninvolved individuals and does not target journalists as such.”
“The IDF acts to mitigate harm to uninvolved individuals as much as possible while maintaining the safety of IDF troops.”
Monday’s strike came weeks after Israel killed a group of media workers in Gaza, several of whom worked with Qatari broadcaster Al Jazeera, claiming they were affiliated with the with militant group.
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Skip next section Israeli military chief reportedly pushing for hostage deal
08/25/2025August 25, 2025
Israeli military chief reportedly pushing for hostage deal
Israeli television Channel 13 quoted military chief Eyal Zamir as saying that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should accept a ceasefire proposal to free the remaining hostages.
“There is a deal on the table, it is the improved Witkoff deal, we must accept it,” he told commanders during a visit to a naval base in Haifa, according to Channel 13.
US special envoy Steve Witkoff had negotiated a deal that provides for a 60-day ceasefire, during which 10 living hostages would be released in exchange for Palestinian prisoners.
“The army has created the conditions for a hostage deal, now it is in the hands of Netanyahu,” Zamir reportedly added.
and taking over Gaza City, a decision that was later reached by the Security Cabinet.
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Skip next section Israel says could start withdrawing from Lebanon after Hezbollah disarms
08/25/2025August 25, 2025
Israel says could start withdrawing from Lebanon after Hezbollah disarms
office said Israel was prepared to support in its efforts to disarm .
Lebanon’s Cabinet , who outlined the most detailed proposal yet for curbing Hezbollah’s military power.
Netanyahu’s office said that if the Lebanese Army begins implementing that plan, Israel will consider reducing its military presence, in coordination with a US-led security mechanism.
Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah exchanged near-daily fire after the terror attack on southern Israel on October 7, 2023, and the following Israeli offensive in Gaza, until last November, when the United States brokered a ceasefire.
The US then called on Lebanon to confiscate all “unauthorized” weapons across the country and said Israel would stop offensive operations against Lebanese targets.
Israel has, however, maintained troops at five positions along the southern border and continued to launch air strikes into Lebanon, saying it’s targeting Hezbollah fighters and weapons facilities.
Hezbollah has rejected the disarmament plan.
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Skip next section Second strike hit Khan Younis hospital after initial strike: reports
08/25/2025August 25, 2025
Second strike hit Khan Younis hospital after initial strike: reports
Reuters news agency reported, citing witnesses, that Israel hit Nasser hospital twice on Monday, with the second hit landing after rescue workers and journalists rushed to the site of the initial attack.
Cameraman Hussam al-Masri, a Reuters contractor, was reportedly killed in the first strike, while photographer Hatem Khaled, another contractor with the news agency, was wounded in the second strike.
Reuters’ live video feed from the hospital suddenly shut down at the moment of the initial strike, the agency’s footage showed.
Footage from Egyptian television appeared to show the second strike hitting the hospital, with the commentator saying: “The civil defense is gone.”
DW could not independently verify the footage.
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Skip next section Gaza officials: Journalists among several killed in strike on hospital
08/25/2025August 25, 2025
Gaza officials: Journalists among several killed in strike on hospital
Health Ministry said at least eight people were killed in an Israeli strike on the Nasser Hospital in the southern city of Khan Younis.
Journalists were reported to be among those killed, including those who had worked for Al Jazeera broadcaster and Reuters news agency.
Al Jazeera later reported, citing the Gaza government’s media office, that 14 people were killed in the strike in Khan Younis, including four journalists.
Reuters reported, citing Palestinian officials, that a cameraman and a photographer who had worked with the news agency were among the four.
They were identified as: Hossam al-Masri, a photojournalist with Reuters news agency; Mohammed Salama, a photojournalist with Al Jazeera; Mariam Abu Daqa, who reported for outlets including the Independent Arabic and the Associated Press; and Moaz Abu Taha.
The journalists were on “a press coverage mission at Nasser Hospital,” according to the media office of the .
There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military.
The reports come weeks after , claiming they were “Hamas terrorists.”
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