Israel strikes tents near hospitals in Gaza, killing and wounding reporters

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel struck tents outside two major hospitals in the Gaza Strip overnight, killing at least two people, including a local reporter, and wounding another nine, including six reporters, medics said Monday.

Fifteen others were killed in separate strikes across the territory, according to hospitals.

A strike on a media tent outside Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis at around 2 a.m. set the tent ablaze, killing Yousef al-Faqawi, a reporter for the Palestine Today news website, and another man, according to the hospital. The six reporters were wounded in that strike.

The Israeli military said it struck a Hamas militant, without providing further information. The military says

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