Good morning. It's Tuesday, August 26th.
I'm Shmeeta Basu.
This is Apple News Today.
On today's show, a pared-down education department faces shifting priorities,
how the immigration slowdown is impacting the labor market,
and scientists say we're one step closer to cross-species organ transplants.
But first, to Gaza, where back-to-back airstrikes hit Nasser Hospital,
the largest functioning hospital in Gaza,
killing 22 people Monday morning in an attack that prompted international condemnation and a rare admission of regret from the Israeli government.
And a warning, this story contains graphic audio from military strikes.
Five of those killed were journalists working for several international outlets,
including the Associated Press, Reuters, and Al Jazeera.
NPR reports a live camera feed operated by a Reuters journalist was filming nearby Israeli tanks from an open stairwell at Nasser Hospital when a missile struck,
killing him instantly.
This is sound from moments later when a second strike hit,
killing first responders and other journalists as they stood in the same stairwell,
attending to the damage.
You can hear a man's voice in the video saying, quote, they killed the people.
The journalists have been identified as Hussam al-Masri,
the Reuters cameraman running the live feed,