Updates: Israel attacks hospital, kills six Palestinian journalists in Gaza

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• Since dawn, Israeli attacks across Gaza have killed at least 61 people, according to medical sources.
• In southern Gaza, an Israeli attack on Nasser Hospital killed at least 21 people, including five journalists, receiving widespread global condemnation.
• Al Jazeera’s cameraman, Mohammed Salama, was among the victims. The network accused Israel of waging a “systematic campaign to silence the truth”.
• Israeli forces killed Palestinian correspondent Hassan Douhan in a separate incident in Khan Younis later today, bringing the death toll of journalists to six.
• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he “deeply regrets” what he called a “tragic mishap” at Nasser Hospital, as Israel continues to kill journalists with impunity.
• US President Donald Trump said that within the next two to three weeks, we would have a “pretty good, conclusive ending” to the war in Gaza.
• Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem said the Lebanese government’s decree to remove the group’s weapons was a grave mistake, calling for revoking the decision.

Trump has publicly acknowledged that children looked very hungry. What’s behind his silence now? And is it a green light for Israel to continue its genocide by starvation?

Watch Al Jazeera’s Inside Story address these questions with foreign policy and humanitarian experts.

Norway’s $2 trillion wealth fund, the world’s largest, has announced that it has divested from five Israeli banking groups, as well as the US construction equipment group Caterpillar Inc, on ethics grounds.

The five banks were excluded “due to an unacceptable risk that the companies contribute to serious violations of the rights of individuals in situations of war and conflict”, the fund said in a statement.

The fund’s ethics watchdog, the Council on Ethics, said: “There is no doubt that Caterpillar’s products are being used to commit extensive and systematic violations of international humanitarian law.”

Rights advocates have long called for boycotting Caterpillar due to the use of its equipment by the Israeli military, including to demolish Palestinian homes.

The council said that violations were taking place both in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.

“As deliveries of the relevant machinery to Israel are now set to resume, the Council considers there to be an unacceptable risk that Caterpillar is con­tributing to serious violations of individuals’ rights in war or conflict situations,” it added.

Medical sources in Gaza say an Israeli strike has killed a Palestinian couple and their three children in Mawasi al-Qarara, north of Khan Younis.

In a separate attack in Jabalia in northern Gaza, one person was killed and several others were injured.

It has been widely reported for weeks that 20 Israeli captives remain alive in Gaza, with about 30 others having been killed in Israeli attacks on the enclave.

But Trump cast doubt over those numbers earlier today, stirring controversy and accusations of a lack of transparency from the government in Israel.

“Now we’re left with probably a little bit less than 20 because I think one or two are gone,” he said.

The Hostages and Missing Families Forum hit out at Ron Dermer, Israel’s minister of strategic affairs, who has been leading talks with the US, after Trump’s comments.

“There are 50 hostages. For us, each and every one is a whole world,” the forum said, according to Ynet News. “If Minister Dermer, who speaks only to the Americans but doesn’t bother to speak or meet with the hostages’ families, knows something different, he should have updated the families first.”

Local Palestinian outlets have published a video showing the moment Israeli soldiers arrested a young man from his home in occupied East Jerusalem.

According to the Jerusalem governorate, the Israeli authorities arrested the released prisoner, Mohammed Yasser Darwish, from the town of al-Issawiya.

Canada says it is “horrified” by the Israeli strikes on Nasser Hospital that killed at least 21 people, including five journalists, calling the attack “unacceptable”.

In posts on X, the Canadian Foreign Ministry said Ottawa has “always condemned all violence” against journalists and media workers.

“Israel has the obligation to protect civilians, including journalists and healthcare workers, operating in Gaza,” the ministry said.

“Canada urges an immediate and permanent ceasefire, the protection of civilians, the unconditional release of the remaining hostages, and scaled-up UN-led humanitarian aid which can pass freely to those in need.”

Canada announced last month that it plans to recognise a Palestinian state.

Canada is horrified by the Israeli military strike at the Nasser Hospital in Gaza, which killed 5 journalists and many civilians, including rescuers and health officials. Such attacks are unacceptable.

— Foreign Policy CAN (@CanadaFP) August 25, 2025

Israel says it has downgraded relations with Brazil after the South American country refused to approve the new Israeli ambassador. Brazil has not had an envoy in Israel since last year, in opposition to the Gaza war.

Ties between the two countries “are now managed at a lower diplomatic level”, the Israeli Foreign Ministry said in a statement, reported by Israeli media.

It claimed that Brazil had taken “a critical and hostile stance towards Israel” since the start of the war on Gaza, pointing out that this led to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva being designated a “persona non grata” by Israel.

Lula has emphasised his stance that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, and condemned Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon of war during the early July BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro.

Mariam Abu Daqqa, one of the journalists killed by the Israeli army during its attack on Nasser Hospital, regularly documented the war on Gaza for international outlets like The Associated Press and The Independent Arabic.

Here are some of her photos from the weeks preceding her murder, which show the suffering of Gaza under Israeli bombardment, as well as the effects of the Israeli blockade on sick and starving children in the enclave.

The UN special rapporteur on freedom of expression, Irene Khan, says journalists are being attacked in Gaza, whether they are being directly targeted or not.

“The casualties have been extremely high because of the very careless, reckless way in which the Israeli… forces have been carrying out this war,” Khan told Al Jazeera.

Khan said that after the first strike on Nasser Hospital, which killed one journalist, many other journalists rushed to the scene to take pictures and report on the attack, and then the second strike occurred.

“So this is, in a way, also targeting areas where there is disproportionate risk to civilians, including journalists,” Khan said.

Israeli soldiers stormed the city from its main eastern entrance and deployed in the areas of Kafr Saba, Sufin, al-Fath Mosque and al-Maslakh, while firing stun grenades, Wafa reported, citing local sources.

Sources on the ground also told Al Jazeera that clashes broke out between Israeli forces and young men during the raid.

من اقتحام قوات الاحتلال لشارع 22 في منطقة صوفين بمدينة قلقيلية. pic.twitter.com/QFLm7hCrBk

— القسطل الإخباري (@AlQastalps) August 25, 2025

Translation: From the storming by occupation forces of 22 Street in the Suofin area of Qalqilya city.

Francesca Albanese, the United Nations rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, says the camera of a journalist who was killed in Israel’s attack on Nasser Hospital “should be exhibited one day” in a memorial for the victims of the genocide in Gaza.

“Shame on all journalists not raising their voice against the massacre of their brave Palestinian colleagues while documenting the genocide,” Albanese wrote in a social media post.

This camera should be exhibited one day in the Genocide Memorial built in memory of the innumerable victims of Israel's genocide in Gaza.

Shame on all journalists not raising their voice against the massacre of their brave Palestinian colleagues while documenting the genocide. https://t.co/sr8KWWc3nf

— Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt (@FranceskAlbs) August 25, 2025

The armed wing of Hamas has reported attacks on invading Israeli forces in the besieged Zeitoun neighbourhood of Gaza City.

The Qassam Brigades said its fighters targeted a Merkava tank with a Yassin-105 shell near the al-Farouq Mosque area, located south of the neighbourhood.

The group also said that on Sunday, its fighters targeted another tank with a landmine south of Gaza City, and monitored the arrival of a rescue force to the location.

Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Ministry says it condemns Israel’s attack on medical personnel and journalists.

“The Ministry stresses the Kingdom’s rejection of Israel’s ongoing violations of international law and norms,” it said. “The Kingdom reiterates its call on the international community to put an end to these Israeli crimes and emphasizes the need to protect medical, relief, and media personnel.”

During a visit to Saudi Arabia in May, US President Donald Trump said it would be a “dream” to see the country establish formal diplomatic relations with Israel.

Riyadh has said it is committed to the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative, which conditions recognition of Israel on the establishment of a Palestinian state.

#Statement | The Foreign Ministry expresses the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's condemnation of Israeli occupation forces' targeting of medical, relief, and media personnel at the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip. pic.twitter.com/oXgFP4Ta52

— Foreign Ministry 🇸🇦 (@KSAmofaEN) August 25, 2025

British human rights lawyer Geoffrey Nice says Israel’s description of the attack on Nasser Hospital as a “mistake” is an “interesting admission” that means Israel should be investigated on what its army was trying to do.

“If they can’t then justify a mistake in terms of a proper target with assessed level of collateral damage, then they’ve committed a war crime,” Nice told Al Jazeera.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman says the attacks on the Khan Younis hospital constituted a “barbaric war crime” that was committed by Israel to advance its plan for the “genocide of Palestinians”.

The US and other allies of Israel that have armed it during the war must be accountable to the international community after being complicit in Israel’s “horrific crimes”, Esmaeil Baghaei said in a short statement.

The Egyptian Foreign Ministry also strongly condemned the Israeli attack, describing it as another “blatant violation of international humanitarian law”.

“Egypt expresses its strong denunciation of the Israeli occupation’s deliberate targeting of journalists and workers in the medical and humanitarian field, and rejects the crimes of genocide it is committing against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip,” it said, calling on the international community and the UN Security Council to intervene.