Two journalists for Reuters and the Associated Press who were killed in an Israeli attack on a Gaza hospital were not “a target of the strike”, a military spokesperson said, adding the army chief had ordered a further inquiry into how the decision to strike the hospital was made.
Israeli forces struck Nasser Hospital in the south of the Gaza Strip on Monday, killing at least 20 people, including journalists who worked for Reuters, the Associated Press, Al Jazeera and other outlets.
“We can confirm that the Reuters and AP journalists were not a target of the strike,” military spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Nadav Shoshani told Reuters. Three other journalists were also killed in the strike.
Using its own camera equipment, Reuters has frequently broadcast a feed from Nasser Hospital during the war. For the past several weeks, the news agency had been delivering daily feeds from the hospital position that was hit.
At the moment of the initial Israeli strike, the Reuters live video feed, which cameraman Hussam al-Masri had been operating, suddenly shut down. Masri was killed in the attack.
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