The strikes hit the home of a news photographer in the Gaza Strip days after Israel and a media collective questioned his coverage of the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks. The photographer, Yasser Kudih, survived the November 13 strikes, we learned on Tuesday. An independent journalist reported that four shells hit the back of his house, killing eight members of his family.
The bombing came five days after the publication, on November 8, of a HonestReporting report questioning whether Kudih and three other photographers based in the Gaza Strip were aware of the October 7 Hamas attack against Israel.
Reuters categorically denied HonestReporting’s claims, as did other international news organizations mentioned in the report. Yasser Qudih provided photographs to Reuters as a freelancer during the October 7 Hamas attack.
The Palestinian photographer said he returned home just an hour before the attacks on his home, which occurred within seconds of each other and without warning, around 7:50 pm (1750 GMT) that evening. “Israel attacked my home,” he said. When asked about the reasons for the attack, he succinctly replied: “I don’t know,” Reuters reports. The news agency was unable to verify who was responsible for the strikes, why Kudiha’s home in southern Gaza was targeted, or whether the strikes were related to the HonestReporting report.
The journalist explained that he lived in a two-story house in which only he and his immediate and distant relatives lived. About 20 people were in his home at the time of the strikes, which left a large crater in the yard behind the house and destroyed one side of the building. The director of Nasser Hospital, the main hospital serving the area where Kudih lived, confirmed to Reuters that the names and ages of the eight family members killed were on the hospital’s death list.
The IDF refuses to answer
The Israeli army, which launched a military offensive in Gaza in response to the Oct. 7 attack, declined to say whether its forces carried out the strike and, if so, what the target was. “The Israeli military is currently focused on eliminating the Hamas threat. Issues of this type will be considered later,” the Israeli army openly criticized in response to questions from the Anglo-Saxon agency. Reuters also said it was “deeply saddened” to learn of the deaths of Mr. Cudih’s family members. She also said HonestReporting made “baseless allegations” against her freelancer.
“Numerous death threats subsequently circulated online,” Reuters also writes. “The situation on the ground is dire, and the Israeli military’s refusal to provide guarantees for the safety of our personnel compromises their ability to provide information about this conflict without fear of injury or death.”
“All the terrorists who illegally entered our communities on October 7th, all the people who came along with the heinous killers who brutally killed, raped, maimed, burned and kidnapped their way through southern Israel, will face the same fate,” assured Danny Danon. member of Likud, Israel’s ruling party, when asked about strikes at a photographer’s home. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said the Israeli army respected international law and had taken “possible precautions to mitigate harm to civilians.” Hamas has not commented on the situation.
Source: Le Parisien
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