GENEVA — A UN chief slammed “surprising” international inaction over the Gaza battle Monday after an Israeli strike on a hospital killed a minimum of 20 folks together with 5 journalists.
Philippe Lazzarini, head of the United Nations company for Palestinian refugees described the strike as “silencing the final remaining voices reporting about youngsters dying silently amid famine.
“The world’s indifference and inaction is surprising,” he added on X.
Gaza civil protection spokesman Mahmud Bassa stated an Israeli explosive drone focused a constructing at Nasser Hospital within the southern Gaza metropolis of Khan Yunis, adopted by an air strike because the wounded had been being evacuated.
Reuters, the Related Press and Al Jazeera stated their contributors had been among the many journalists killed within the strike, which got here simply days after the UN declared a famine within the war-battered Palestinian territory.
Gear utilized by Palestinian cameraman Hussam al-Masri lies on the web site the place he was killed, together with different journalists and folks, in Israeli strikes on Nasser Hospital, in Khan Younis in Gaza, on this nonetheless picture taken from video, August 25, 2025. REUTERS/Hatem Khaled
The UN rights workplace additionally condemned the strike, insisting that “journalists aren’t a goal. Hospitals aren’t a goal.”
“The killing of journalists in Gaza ought to shock the world—not into shocked silence however into motion, demanding accountability and justice,” spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani stated.
“In a scenario of conflict and famine, worldwide journalists proceed to be denied entry by Israeli authorities,” she added, and “a minimum of 247 Palestinian journalists have been killed in Gaza since October 7, 2023.
“These journalists are the eyes and ears of the worldwide neighborhood, they usually should be protected,” she stated.
“Their killings, and people of numerous different civilians, should be independently, promptly investigated and justice should comply with.”
World Well being Group chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stated 4 well being staff had been additionally among the many useless.
“Fifty others had been injured, amongst them critically sick sufferers who had been already receiving care,” he stated on X.
.@WHO obtained experiences of two strikes on the Nasser Medical Advanced this morning, ensuing within the deaths of a minimum of 20 folks, together with 4 well being staff and 5 journalists. Fifty others had been injured, amongst them critically sick sufferers who had been already receiving care.
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— Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (@DrTedros) August 25, 2025
“Whereas folks in Gaza are being starved, their already restricted entry to well being care is being additional crippled by repeated assaults,” he added.
“We can not say it loudly sufficient: STOP assaults on well being care. Ceasefire now!” — Agence France-Presse
