Homes, streets, lives reduced to dust by
Israel's relentless assault.
Um's voice trembles with fear as she
speaks.
Destruction is total destruction
everywhere. She says, "We walk in panic.
We sleep in panic. We sit in panic.
The outskirts of Gaza City are under
fierce bombardment as Israel's army
prepares for an operation to take full
control of it.
3-year-old Natalie's father caresses his
daughter, pulled out from underneath the
rubble. We were sitting in the shop, he
says, when everything suddenly went gray
and there was a sound just like that.
Elsewhere in Gaza City today,
journalists paid their respects to five
colleagues killed yesterday in twin
strikes by the Israeli army. Prime
Minister Netanyahu described it as a
tragic mishap. But with more than 200
journalists killed in Gaza, there's no
doubt here as to why they died.
The occupation deliberately targets
journalists. knowing the impact of the
Palestinian image, the Palestinian
report across the world.
>> In Israel, the day began with protests
by supporters of the hostages still held
in Gaza, calling for a deal that would
secure their release and end the war.
Hamas has already agreed to a ceasefire
proposal and partial exchange, but Prime
Minister Netanyahu is insisting only a
complete surrender by the militants will
end the bloodshed.
Ruby Chen's son, Itai, was an Israeli
soldier abducted on October the 7th.
>> Every dinner table we have a missing
chair. Now dwell upon that and reflect.
What does that mean? Each and everyone
of you listening to me now,
>> tell me what's your message to your
government today?
>> We are the people. I think it's the
majority of the people that say one
simple thing. We all want to dismantle
Hamas. But before that, there are those
50 hostages.
50 hostages that are either sons,
husbands,
siblings,
a universe.
>> For many months, it's been clear there's
a significant majority in Israel willing
to end the war to get the hostages back.
>> Here, mothers with toddlers gathered in
protest.
>> Well, I think the war should be ended. I
think I mean all of the hostages should
come back home now.
>> You're a mother. You must see so many
children in Gaza are being killed as
well. How does that make you feel?
>> Um it it's it's horrific.
>> But amongst demonstrators, there were
also many who criticized Israel's
political leadership, yet still support
its army.
>> The suffering that is going on in Gaza
is not the military's fault. And
sometimes Hamas is, not sometimes, all
the time Hamas is showing uh pictures of
kids who are not even related to what's
going on.
>> Every day in Gaza, children are amongst
those killed by Israeli bombs.
Here, an entire family, including three
young boys, are being prepared for
burial.
They were targeted whilst they were
sleeping by a drone. This man says
>> the children were torn apart.
>> Despite all the blood, all the tears
that have been shed already, yet more
looked to lie ahead.
Hospitals have been targeted several
times in Gaza, but this time it was
caught on camera twice.
This was the first explosion. 10:00 a.m.
yesterday outside NASA hospital.
>> An Israeli strike targeted the top floor
of one of Gaza's largest hospitals.
Then came the second strike, hitting the
same spot, a staircase where journalists
gathered and rescue workers were trying
to save those injured in the first blast
just a few minutes earlier. It's been
described as a double tap, a military
tactic that involves striking an initial
location, then striking the same
location again to maximize casualties.
There are very serious doubts that
further attacks against medical
facilities in Gaza right now can easily
be proportionate and even if the first
attack would have been legal then you
know there's this issue of the double
tap strike about the second attack and
together it's obviously unlikely that
you would strike by mistake the same
object twice.
>> Hospitals, journalists and emergency
workers are supposed to be protected
under international law. But yesterday,
among the 20 killed, four health workers
and five journalists,
Husam al- Masri was behind this
Reuters's live feed when the strike hit.
His camera froze and with his death, the
world will see less of Gaza skyline.
Muaz Abu Taha, Ahmed Abu Aiz, who worked
through pain and hunger. According to
his colleagues, Muhammad Salama was a
photographer for Alazera. He fell in
love during this war with Hala Aspour, a
fellow journalist. The couple were
engaged and even hoped to get married
after a ceasefire. Then there was Mariam
Dagger, a photojournalist for the
Associated Press, whose images of
starving children shocked the world. She
was a single mother who sent her
13-year-old son abroad to safety while
she stayed behind. She wrote a will and
a final message for her son. Raif, you
are the heart and soul of your mother. I
want you to pray for me and not to cry
over me.
>> At her funeral today, Marim's father
wept.
>> She cared for me and donated her kidney
to me and they transplanted it. She was
loved by everyone.
After the attack, the Israeli government
accepted they did target the hospital
not once but twice. The IDF then said
they will hold an inquiry and Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tweeted
this. Israel deeply regrets the tragic
mishap that occurred today at the NASA
hospital in Gaza.
And today a different tone as the IDF
shared the results of the initial
investigation. They said without
providing evidence NASA hospital was
targeted because they identified cameras
positioned by Hamas.
>> Even if they thought that you do not
blast parts of the hospital such that
innocents are killed that international
humanitarian law does not allow you to
do that. Bypassing the rule of law and
international norms that are in couched
in the Geneva conventions and so on is
setting an example for the world. Forget
the law. We just do what we want.
>> Journalists in Gaza are meant to be
protected by international law. Without
them, the world will see less and their
words and images will disappear from our
screens.