Deaths add to the casualty numbers in what has been declared the deadliest ever battle for media employees.
An Israeli air assault on a media tent in Gaza has killed at the least two folks.
The bombing close to the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis early on Monday additionally wounded a number of different reporters, in keeping with native media. The assault was simply the most recent to end result within the casualties of journalists, with Israel having been accused of intentionally focusing on the press throughout its battle within the enclave.
The strike on the tent outdoors the hospital in southern Gaza at about 2am set it ablaze, killing journalist Helmi al-Faqawi in addition to a person named as Yousef al-Khazindar, in keeping with Palestine’s Wafa information company.
Footage shared on-line by the Quds Information Community confirmed the tent on hearth. Some folks in a crowd gathered outdoors tried to extinguish the flames.
Experiences mentioned that 9 folks, six of them journalists, had been injured, “some critically”, within the assault.
The Quds Information Community confirmed footage of journalists Hassan Eslaih and Ihab al-Bardini on hospital beds, the latter “struck by shrapnel within the head, which exited by way of his eye”.
Journalist Ahmad Mansour was reportedly preventing for his life after struggling “extreme burns”.
Palestinians mourn journalist Helmi al-Faq’awi who was tragically murdered within the horrific Israeli assault late final on the journalists’ tent outdoors Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis. pic.twitter.com/DlB5r6wpuH
— Quds Information Community (@QudsNen) April 7, 2025
Israeli assaults on Gaza on Monday morning killed at the least 13 folks, in keeping with medical sources cited by Al Jazeera Arabic.
The community reported two folks had been killed within the strikes on the Jabalia refugee camp and three others within the Zeitoun district of Gaza Metropolis.
Wafa reported that two folks had been killed west of Deir el-Balah and one other within the al-Jurun space north of Gaza Metropolis.
Deadliest battle for journalists
The assault on the media tent got here a day after journalist Islam Meqdad was killed alongside along with her husband and little one, rising the casualties reported amongst media representatives in Gaza.
The Watson Institute for Worldwide and Public Affairs has mentioned Israel’s battle on Gaza is now the deadliest ever for media employees, in keeping with its Prices of Conflict challenge.
The US-based suppose tank’s report launched final week said that Israeli forces have killed 232 journalists and media employees for the reason that battle within the enclave started following the October 7, 2023 assault by Hamas on southern Israel.
On common, 13 reporters and media employees have been killed each week within the bombardment.
The figures display that extra journalists have been killed within the battle than in each world wars, the Vietnam Conflict, the wars in Yugoslavia and the US battle in Afghanistan mixed, the report mentioned.
It’s unclear, the suppose tank continued, what number of journalists in Gaza have been particularly focused and “what number of had been merely the victims, like tens of 1000’s of fellow civilians, of Israel’s bombardment”.
Nonetheless, it cited the documentation by Reporters With out Borders (RSF) of 35 circumstances to the tip of 2024 by which the army probably focused and killed journalists due to their work.
Citing the Prices of Conflict examine, journalist Antony Lowenstein advised Al Jazeera that Israel is engaged in “deliberate focusing on of journalists” and that the variety of media employees killed within the enclave is now “higher than that of all conflicts within the final 100 years mixed”.
