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

By Wafaa Shurafa and Samy Magdy

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 said. The Israeli military said the strike targeted a man whom it identified as a Hamas militant posing as a journalist.

Thirty-two other people were killed in multiple strikes around Gaza, including 19 women and children and an emergency room doctor, according to hospital officials.

Video footage showed 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