Killing Medics and Journalists: What Impunity for Genocide Looks Like

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Israel’s Monday morning strike on a Gaza hospital—a so-called “double-tap” assault—was designed for maximum killing. When is enough?

https://newrepublic.com/article/199531/israel-gaza-hospital-strike-killed-medics-journalists-genocide

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A funeral ceremony was held Monday for four journalists killed in an Israeli attack on the Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, Gaza.

It should be outrageous enough when the Israeli military, or any military for that matter, launches strikes on a hospital. The world has allowed that to become routine in Gaza, however, to our great shame. But what the Israeli military did Monday morning before the rolling cameras of Gaza’s heroic journalists somehow managed to reach a new depth of evil for the entire world to see.

Moments after the Israeli military struck the Nasser Medical Complex in southern Gaza, itself a war crime, heroic Palestinian first responders rushed to the scene as they have done day in and day out for two years of genocide to try to rescue victims of the strike and dig survivors out of the rubble. Heroic Palestinian journalists, putting their life on the line day in and day out as well, documented the scene, broadcasting the rescue operation live.

That is precisely when the second Israeli missile hit the same spot, killing the journalists, the medics, and others who may have survived the first strike. “Double-tap” strikes are designed for maximum killing and specifically aimed at wiping out not just those targeted by the first missile, but those that come to the rescue like medics and those who come to document it like journalists. Israel is no longer just carrying out war crimes in Gaza, but layers and layers of war crimes at a time.

The World Health Organization reported that there have been “735 attacks on health care in Gaza from 7 October 2023 to 11 June 2025, that have killed 917 persons and injured 1,411, affected 125 health facilities, and damaged 34 hospitals.” Earlier this month, when an Israeli strike killed Pulitzer-winning Al Jazeera journalists Anas al-Sharif and five of his colleagues, the Committee to Protect Journalists reported that “192 journalists have been killed since the start of the Israeli-Gaza war on October 7, 2023. At least 184 of those journalists were Palestinians killed by Israel.” With the Israeli military’s murderous double-tap strike on the hospital complex this morning, these numbers would have to be revised upwards again. Several journalists were killed in the strike, which was caught on camera. Journalists Mohamad Salama, Mariam Abu Daqqa, Hussam al-Masri, and Moaz Abu Taha were killed.

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