Middle East crisis live: Israel continues attacks on Gaza despite global outcry over the killing of six journalists

The Guardian

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Date: 2025-08-12T06:57:16.000Z
Title: Israel
Content: has stepped up bombing in Gaza despite global outcry over the killing of six journalists in the territory on Sunday night.
i forces killed at least 55 people across the Gaza Strip over Sunday night and into Monday, including a well-known journalist said was a Hamas militant, as well as people seeking humanitarian aid, according to local health officials.
Hospital officials reported at least 34 people were killed on Monday, not including the six journalists who were slain in a tent shortly before midnight.
More than 15 people were killed while waiting for aid at the Zikim crossing in northern Gaza, said Fares Awad, head of the ambulance services in northern Gaza.
's military did not immediately respond to questions about the deaths. Earlier on Monday, it said air and artillery units were operating in northern Gaza and in Khan Younis, where resident Noha Abu Shamala told AP that two drone strikes killed a family of seven in their apartment.
Other key events include:
Palestinians reported the heaviest bombardments in weeks on Monday in areas east of Gaza City, just hours after i prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he expected to complete a new expanded offensive in the territory 'fairly quickly'.
The EU condemned the killing of five Al Jazeera journalists in an i airstrike outside Al Shifa hospital in Gaza city, including Al Jazeera correspondent Anas Al Sharif. 'We take note of the i allegation that the group was Hamas terrorists, but there is a need in these cases to provide clear evidence, in the respect of rule of law, to avoid targeting of journalists,' foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said in a statement on X. The EU joins the UN, Reporters Without Borders, the Foreign Press Association and a host of other organisations in denouncing the attack.
Gazans gathered on Monday for the funeral of the five Al Jazeera staff members and a sixth reporter killed in an i strike. Dozens stood amid bombed-out buildings in the courtyard of Al-Shifa hospital to pay their respects to Anas al-Sharif, a prominent Al Jazeera correspondent aged 28, and four of his colleagues, killed on Sunday.
Video footage appears to show the moment a Palestinian activist was killed as an i settler fired toward him during a confrontation with unarmed Palestinians in the occupied West Bank last month. The video released Sunday by B'Tselem, an i human rights group, shows i settler Yinon Levi firing a gun toward the person filming. The footage cuts but the camera keeps rolling as the person moans in pain.