An Israeli strike on a media tent outside a Gaza hospital kills and wounds journalists

By WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY DEIR AL-BALAH Gaza Strip AP Israel struck a media tent outside a hospital in the Gaza Strip early Monday killing two people including a local reporter and wounding six other journalists medics stated The Israeli military revealed the strike targeted a man whom it identified as a Hamas fighter posing as a journalist Thirty-two other people were killed in multiple strikes around Gaza including women and children and an exigency room physician according to hospital agents Video footage revealed people carrying the body of a dead little girl her face covered with blood after one strike hit near a charity kitchen distributing hot meals for displaced people in tent camps outside the southern city of Khan Younis Such kitchens have been drawing bigger crowds of Palestinians because other sources of food are running out more than a month after Israeli cut off all food fuel medicine and other supplies for Gaza s population of more than million people The World Food Venture has warned that its food stocks to keep the kitchens going could run out by next week It had to stop distributing packages of food staples directly to families last week because of a lack of supplies spokesperson Abeer Etefa declared Monday All the bakeries it ran have also shut down ending the main source of bread for hundreds of thousands of people Israel has carried out waves of strikes across Gaza killing hundreds of people and ground forces have carved out new military zones since it ended its ceasefire with Hamas last month Israel says it is pressuring Hamas to free its remaining hostages disarm and leave the territory In doing so it abandoned its prior agreement under the ceasefire to negotiate for the hostages release Hamas has been designated as a terrorist organization by the United States Canada and the European Union Palestinians mourn their relatives who were killed by an Israeli airstrike at the hospital morgue in Deir al-Balah Gaza Strip on Monday April AP Photo Abdel Kareem Hana Palestinians inspect the site hit by an Israeli strike in Deir al-Balah Gaza Strip on Monday April AP Photo Abdel Kareem Hana Palestinians retrieve a body from the rubble of a building destroyed by an Israeli airstrike in Deir al-Balah Gaza Strip on Monday April AP Photo Abdel Kareem Hana Palestinians search for survivors amid the debris of a building destroyed by an Israeli airstrike in Deir al-Balah Gaza Strip on Monday April AP Photo Abdel Kareem Hana Palestinians search for survivors amid the debris of a building destroyed by an Israeli airstrike in Deir al-Balah Gaza Strip on Monday April AP Photo Abdel Kareem Hana Palestinians inspect the site hit by an Israeli strike in Deir al-Balah Gaza Strip on Monday April AP Photo Abdel Kareem Hana Palestinians search for survivors amid the debris of a building destroyed by an Israeli airstrike in Deir al-Balah Gaza Strip on Monday April AP Photo Abdel Kareem Hana Palestinians search for survivors amid the debris of a building destroyed by an Israeli airstrike in Deir al-Balah Gaza Strip on Monday April AP Photo Abdel Kareem Hana Palestinians search for survivors amid the debris of a building destroyed by an Israeli airstrike in Deir al-Balah Gaza Strip on Monday April AP Photo Abdel Kareem Hana Show Caption of Palestinians mourn their relatives who were killed by an Israeli airstrike at the hospital morgue in Deir al-Balah Gaza Strip on Monday April AP Photo Abdel Kareem Hana Expand Strikes hit journalists and homes The strike outside Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis about a m set the media tent ablaze killing Yousef al-Faqawi a reporter for the Palestine In the modern day news website and another man according to hospital administrators The military commented the strike targeted Hassan Eslaiah who it mentioned was a Hamas fighter who took part in the Oct attack on southern Israel that ignited the war Eslaiah was among six journalists who were wounded in the strike according to the hospital Eslaiah had occasionally contributed images to The Associated Press and other international media outlets as a freelance journalist including on Oct The AP has not worked with him for over a year Israel also struck tents on the edge of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the central city of Deir al-Balah wounding three people according to the hospital Thousands of people have sheltered in tents set up inside hospital compounds throughout the -month war assuming Israel would be less likely to target them Still Israel has struck multiple hospitals and has carried out destructive raids on numerous accusing Hamas of using them for military purposes charges denied by hospital staff A strike that hit a boulevard in Gaza City killed an emergency room healthcare provider the Gaza Fitness Ministry declared Israel s campaign has killed more than strength workers and at least journalists according to the U N and the Committee to Protect Journalists Other strikes overnight and into the day Monday reduced houses to rubble in Khan Younis and Deir al-Balah Imad Maghari mentioned the blast that hit his neighbors in Deir al-Balah at a m was like an earthquake followed by the screams of women and children He explained one neighbor lost five family members and another a young boy I don t know what danger he poses He s years old and was also killed Maghari disclosed Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah declared it received the bodies of people including at least three women and three children Khan Youni s Nasser Hospital published bodies including eight women and five children Israel s military offensive in retaliation for Hamas Oct attack has killed more than Palestinians mostly women and children according to the healthcare ministry whose count does not distinguish between fighters and civilians The offensive has destroyed vast areas of Gaza and displaced around of its population Israel says it tries to avoid civilian casualties and blames Hamas for their deaths because it operates among the population In the Oct attack terrorists killed about people mostly civilians and abducted people They are still holding captives of whom are held to be alive after majority of the rest were published in ceasefires or other deals Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that after Hamas is defeated Israel will control assurance in Gaza and will implement U S President Donald Trump s proposal to resettle much of Gaza s population to other countries through what the Israeli leader refers to as voluntary emigration Palestinians say they do not want to leave their homeland and human rights experts have warned that implementing the Trump proposal would likely amount to mass expulsion in violation of international law Protests in Israel as Netanyahu meets Trump Netanyahu will meet with Trump in Washington on Monday to discuss Gaza and other issues Dozens of protesters gathered outside Netanyahu s official residence in Jerusalem to call for an agreement to release the captives A great number of fear that Netanyahu s decision to resume the fighting has put the remaining hostages in grave danger and hope Trump can help broker another deal Now the moment of truth has come disclosed Varda Ben Baruch grandmother of Israeli American hostage Edan Alexander addressing Netanyahu You are in the United States and you have to sit there with President Trump and close a deal so that everyone will be issued home Magdy revealed from Cairo