ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkey’s presidential communications office on Monday called Israel’s latest strikes on Gaza “an attack on press freedom and another war crime,” after Palestinian officials said at least 20 people, including five journalists, one of whom worked for Reuters, were killed at Nasser hospital.
“Israel, which continues its atrocities without regard for any humanitarian or legal principles, is under the illusion that it can prevent the truth from being revealed through its systematic attacks on journalists,” Burhanettin Duran, head of the communications directorate, said in a post on X.
The Israeli military said it carried out a strike in the area of Nasser hospital and that the chief of the general staff had ordered an inquiry. It “regrets any harm to uninvolved individuals and does not target journalists as such,” it added.
(Reporting by Huseyin Hayatsever; Editing by Jonathan Spicer)
