It was a makeshift newsroom on a stairwell, a place of shared stories
Cameras balanced, reporters swapping jokes. This was their office, their point to capture Israel's relentless war
The sound of life just before it was tragically interrupted. Then came the warning
Al-Jazeera Mubashar filmed the drone circling overhead, silent watching. The camera, Hassam, Hassam, Hassam al-Masri, was Hassam upstairs
He was. Hussam immediately died, alongside civil defense workers. As rescuers raced to the stairwell, there was a second explosion
Israel says Hamas used the hospital for surveillance, a claim Hamas calls a fabrication
We were rescuing the martyrs and wounded, then a huge explosion among us
Doctors confirmed the dead were medics citizens and journalists all caught in a second strike The drone hit the stairs Most of the martyrs were journalists documenting events
The choice of weapon and the target itself have drawn into national condemnation
The tank rounds were a disproportionate munition for sure. I mean, especially when you look at the initial target of a camera
And then what we presume is a secondary target of personnel, you know, at least two tank rounds and another munition, likely or possibly a tank round as well, against a camera at a hospital
These are penetrating, high-explosive rounds. That's incredibly disproportionate. The attack on Nasser Hospital is not an isolated incident
More than 200 journalists have been killed in this war, including 11 from Al Jazeera alone
According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, no one has been held accountable
Yet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hails Israel's military campaign a success. For Gaza's media workers, that success means more deaths of their colleagues