内容摘要：From the moment I arrived in Praia da Luz on Monday the word on everyone's lips was "closure".

From the moment I arrived in Praia da Luz on Monday the word on everyone's lips was "closure".

"Local journalists, those best positioned to tell the truth, face displacement and starvation. To date, nearly 200 journalists have been killed by the Israeli military. Many more have been injured and face constant threats to their lives for doing their jobs: bearing witness. This is a direct attack on press freedom and the right to information."There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military or government. But they have previously denied that Israeli forces have targeted journalists.

The Palestinian Journalists' Syndicate said the Israeli strike on al-Ahli hospital's compound directly targeted a media tent.Video footage showed medics and other people rushing to help casualties lying on the ground underneath a tree in a yard and carrying at least four of them into a medical tent."The Israeli drone suddenly attacked these colleagues," Palestinian journalist Mohammed Ahmed told Reuters news agency at the scene. "Three of them [were] martyred, in addition to a number of martyrs among passersby."

"The Israeli occupation forces are increasing their attacks on us as journalists, trying to prevent us from doing our work," he alleged.The journalists' syndicate identified the three dead journalists as Ismail Badah, a cameraman for the PIJ-affiliated Palestine Today TV channel, Soliman Hajaj, a Palestine Today editor, and Samir al-Refai of the Shams News network.

Another four journalists were injured, two of whom - Palestine Today correspondent Imad Daloul and Ahmed Qalja, a cameraman for Qatar-based Al-Araby TV - were in a critical condition, it said.

The Israeli military said in a statement that it "precisely struck an Islamic Jihad terrorist who was operating in a command-and-control centre" in the yard of the hospital. It did not name the target or provide any evidence.Robyn Weldon, 21, said: "I've been going to my dentist since I was probably six so I guess that would be a bit sad if I can't go to him.

"I would say too that things haven't been going very well for the NHS so maybe this could be a good start to kind of make things easier for them and for us."Paul McCarthy, 77, said he was unaware of the changes.

"I wouldn't be very happy about it either," he said."I've been coming here for over 30 years and I'm used to coming here so I wouldn't like that at all."