Video: Gaza journalist Shbat wounded in Israeli air attack on rescuers, back out reporting within hours

Rescue workers slaughtered, journalist wounded in Israeli attack on attempt to save victims from under building collapsed by airstrike

Palestinian journalist Hossam Shbat was wounded last night during an Israeli air attack on rescue workers trying to save victims from a bombed home. Shbat, designated a terrorist by Israel along with the other surviving journalist in Gaza as it tries to stem the flow of evidence of its crimes, continued reporting even as he was taken for treatment:

Rescue worker Nooh al-Shaghnobi, who survived the blast, was filmed holding the severed hand of his friend Ali, describing how Ali was killed while trying to rescue a woman after already saving five children, and saying ‘he was the best of the civil defence teams’:

Shbat was treated for his wound with the basic care that is all that is available now in northern Gaza and even then only for the lucky:

Shbat and al-Shaghnobi were later photographed talking about their dead friend:

Within hours, both men were back out on the street doing their work. In an Instagram post, Shbat said it had been ‘a rough night’ but that he would continue his work.

The International Criminal Court this morning issued arrest warrants for Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and former defence minister Yoav Gallant. Keir Starmer, who has found the time to comment publicly about global security and about the death of former government minister John Prescott, has not yet said that the UK will honour its legal obligations to arrest Netanyahu if he sets foot in UK-controlled territory. UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy has also been silent on the issue.

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