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SvennoJ on 25 August 2025
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Israel’s admission of ‘mistake’ can be investigated as war crime

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.


Don’t mourn the deaths of Palestinian journalists

Although the journalists killed today were protected civilians, although they were sheltering inside a medical facility that enjoys special protection under humanitarian law, no one will hold Israel accountable for what it claims was a “mistake”, and no one will investigate it.

This is what happened with the assassination of Anas al-Sharif, Mohammed Qreiqeh, Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal, Moamen Aliwa, and Mohammed al-Khaldi two weeks ago, too. It was also gradually forgotten. Social media eulogies faded. Their killing, which was described as “unacceptable” and a “grave breach of international law”, is yet to be investigated, while Israel’s claims about Anas remain unchallenged.

Almost 23 months into this brutal war, and the whole world still only goes as far as offering condolences for dead Palestinians. It does everything it can to avert even the slightest feeling of responsibility for what is happening in Gaza.

If mourning Palestinian journalists allows you to feel less guilt, if it makes you feel as though you have fulfilled your duty towards them, then don’t mourn them. We do not need more eulogies; we need justice.


Mourners carry the body of Palestinian cameraman Hussam al-Masri in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, August 25


‘Shame on all journalists not raising their voice’: UN’s Albanese

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.