News Group Stopped Sharing Gaza Locations With Israel After 'so Many Journalists' Killed In Idf Strikes

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JERUSALEM — “So galore journalists were killed successful IDF strikes,” world news agency Reuters has told NBC News, that it stopped sharing nan locations of its teams successful nan Gaza Strip pinch the Israeli military.

The news agency's cameraman, who regularly operated its unrecorded position connected nan tile of Nasser Hospital, was 1 of 5 journalists among 22 group killed successful an Israeli onslaught connected nan installation Monday.

"In nan early days of nan conflict, Reuters, for illustration different news outlets, shared nan locations our teams would beryllium utilizing successful an effort to guarantee they would not beryllium targeted by nan [Israel Defense Forces]," a spokesperson for nan London-based news organization, 1 of nan world’s largest, told NBC News precocious Wednesday.

This included sharing connected "multiple occasions" that its journalists were operating retired of Nasser Hospital, wherever nan strikes were caught connected video by nan Arabic-language transmission Al Ghad TV.

"We subsequently desisted from giving precise coordinates of our teams aft truthful galore journalists were killed successful IDF strikes," added Reuters, which has said it ran a unrecorded provender from nan tract for nan past 18 months.

In consequence to a petition for remark connected nan Reuters statement, nan IDF said it had “no further remark beyond nan connection that has been put out." Soon aft nan incident, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said it had been a "tragic mishap."

In a connection Tuesday, nan IDF claimed that an first enquiry recovered that troops had identified a camera astatine nan infirmary that was being utilized to observe its troops “in bid to nonstop violent activities against them.” It added that “troops operated to region nan threat by striking and dismantling nan camera.”

According to 5 journalists connected nan crushed location was only 1 camera — Reuters' — astatine nan apical of nan hospital. A elder Hamas charismatic has claimed it did not person a camera successful nan area.

The Israeli military, which did not supply grounds to substantiate nan claims that Hamas ran a camera connected nan tile of nan infirmary aliases reside nan aggregate strikes connected nan facility, added that an investigation had been ordered into “several gaps” including nan “authorization process” earlier nan attack.

According to nan internationally recognized Committee to Protect Journalists, 197 journalists person been killed successful Israel's battle connected Gaza since it began little than 2 years ago, making it nan deadliest conflict for journalists nan CPJ has documented.

Israel has barred nan world media from entering Gaza since Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023 attack, isolated from for occasional tours chaperoned by nan IDF.

On Wednesday Dr. Mohammed Saqer, head of nursing astatine Nasser Hospital, said that nan IDF should person been alert that nan area it was targeting astatine nan infirmary was a hub for Palestinian journalists wrong nan enclave.

“It’s not a concealed place. It’s for illustration a clear place, evident place. Everyone tin spot this place. Even nan Israeli army, by their ain drones aliases by their ain cameras, they tin spot Hussam and different journalists moving from nan 4th floor. So it’s not a secret,” he said, referring to Hussam al-Masri, nan Reuters cameraman killed successful nan attack.

He added, “The IDF knows our numbers. Yes, sometimes they telephone us. So if nan IDF has immoderate objection astir nan beingness of Hussam and different journalists connected nan 3rd floor, connected nan 4th floor, I deliberation they could person contacted america and we could person fixed nan issue.