UN Special Rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, urged states to take urgent action to stop Israel’s “carnage” in the besieged Gaza Strip.
Her appeal followed the killing of at least 20 people in a “double tap” strike on Monday that hit Nasser Hospital, one of Gaza’s last remaining functioning medical centers.
The victims included journalists, doctors, and civil defense workers who had rushed to assist the wounded after the initial bombing.
“Rescuers killed in line of duty. Scenes like this unfold every moment in Gaza, often unseen, largely undocumented,” Albanese wrote on X.
❗️BREAKING❗️Rescuers killed in line of duty.
— Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt (@FranceskAlbs) August 25, 2025
Scenes like this unfold every moment in Gaza, often unseen, largely undocumented. I beg STATES: how much more must be witnessed before you act to stop this carnage?
🔴Break the blockade 🔴Impose an Arms Embargo
🔴Impose Sanctions. https://t.co/FgMvIyYem0
She called on states to intervene decisively, warning that inaction perpetuates the violence.
Albanese reiterated her call for urgent international measures, including an end to blockade on aid to Gaza, an arms embargo on Israel, and the imposition of sanctions on the regime.
'Israel silencing voices reporting on children dying silently'
Philippe Lazzarini, head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, described the strike as “silencing the last remaining voices reporting about children dying silently amid famine."
“The world’s indifference and inaction is shocking,” the UNRWA chief posted on X.
#Gaza: more journalists killed today.
— Philippe Lazzarini (@UNLazzarini) August 25, 2025
Silencing the last remaining voices reporting about children dying silently amid #famine .
The world’s indifference & inaction is shocking.
Like Hannah Arendt said: “The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs…
In a statement, Gaza’s Government Media Office said that the Israeli occupation committed a horrific crime by bombing a group of journalists on a press mission in Khan Younis.
The office said it holds Israel, the American administration, and the European countries supporting Israel, fully responsible for these heinous crimes.
Five journalists were among 20 people killed in the Israeli attack on Nasser Medical Complex, according to the enclave’s Ministry of Health.
With the latest fatalities, the number of journalists killed by Israel in Gaza has risen to 245.
Qatar-based Al Jazeera, Reuters, and the Associated Press expressed outrage and sorrow after their contributors were killed on Monday in the Israeli strikes.
Al Jazeera said in a statement that it “asserts that Israel’s prevailing sense of impunity, along with its determination to silence journalists to conceal its continuing crimes in Gaza, including genocide and the famine devastating the Strip demonstrates a clear intent to bury the truth.”
A Reuters spokesperson expressed devastation over the death of contractor Hussam al-Masri and injuries to another contractor, Hatem Khaled, in Israeli strikes on Nasser Hospital.
The Associated Press said it was “shocked and saddened” by the death of Mariam Dagga, 33, a visual journalist who had freelanced for the agency since October 7, 2023.
Meanwhile, the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) reported that one of its medics was injured while tending to the wounded inside a hospital in Khan Yunis during Israeli attacks.
The organization shared a video on X showing a clearly marked PRCS rescue van with what appear to be bullet holes across the windshield and along its side.
Today, a Palestine Red Crescent medic was injured while performing his humanitarian duty inside Nasser Medical Hospital in Khan Yunis, as he assisted the wounded following the Israeli occupation’s attack on the hospital.#Gaza
— PRCS (@PalestineRCS) August 25, 2025
Israel has killed nearly 62,800 Palestinians in its genocidal war on Gaza since October 2023. The offensive has devastated the besieged Strip, which is also facing a famine.
