Palestinians try to reach casualties following Israeli strikes on Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip Monday. AFP
Here is a roundup of world reactions so far.
UN rights office spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani said in a statement that journalists and hospitals should never be targeted.
“The killing of journalists in Gaza should shock the world — not into stunned silence but into action, demanding accountability and justice.”
The head of the UN’s agency for Palestinian affairs UNRWA, Philippe Lazzarini, described the strike as “silencing the last remaining voices reporting about children dying silently amid famine”, in a post on X.
Questioned by reporters at the White House, US President Donald Trump said he had not yet received news of the strike but added: “I’m not happy about it. I don’t want to see it.”
He said, “at the same time, we have to end that whole nightmare” in Gaza, where Hamas is holding hostages seized in Israel.
In Israel’s staunch European ally Germany, the foreign ministry said it was “shocked by the killing of several journalists, rescue workers, and other civilians” in the Nasser Hospital strike.
“This attack must be investigated,” the ministry said on X, also calling on Israel to “allow immediate independent foreign media access and afford protection for journalists operating in Gaza”.
UK foreign minister David Lammy said he was “horrified” by the hospital strike.
“Civilians, healthcare workers and journalists must be protected. We need an immediate ceasefire,” Lammy wrote on X.
In Israel’s fierce adversary Iran, foreign ministry spokesman Esmail Baghai condemned the hospital strike as a “brutal war crime, planned and perpetrated by the Zionist regime as part of a plan for the genocide of the Palestinians”.
He demanded the United States be held to account as “complicit” for supporting Israel.
Medical aid charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said it was “heartbroken” by the death in the strike of a freelance photographer who had previously worked for it, Mariam Abu Dagga.
“As Israel continues to shun international law, the only witnesses of their genocidal campaign are deliberately being targeted. It must stop now,” it said.
The Foreign Press Association in Jerusalem called for an “immediate explanation” from the Israeli military and called for it “to halt its abhorrent practice of targeting journalists”.
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