Deaths add to the casualties declared the most deadly war for media employees.
An Israeli air strike on a media tent in Gaza killed at least two people.
According to local media, the bombing near Nasir Hospital in Khan Younis in early Monday also injured several other reporters. The attack was the latest for the results of journalists, the latest, Israel was accused of deliberately targeting the press during his war in Enclave.
According to Palestine’s Wifa news agency, the tent untouched it at around 2 pm on the tent outside the hospital of Southern Gaza, in which journalist Helmi al-Faqavi as well as a person named Yusaf Al-Khazinder was killed.
The footage shared online by QUDS News Network showed the tent on fire. Some people in a crowd outside tried to extinguish the flames.
Reports said nine people, six of them were injured in the attack, “some seriously”.
Quds News Network showed footage of journalists Hasan Eslaih and IAB Al-Bardini on the hospital beds, later “the head was killed by pellets, who came out through his eye”.
Journalist Ahmed Mansoor was allegedly fighting for his life after suffering from “severe burning”.
Palestinians mourned journalist Helmi al-Faqavi, whose tent of journalists outside Nasar Hospital in Khan Younis was tragically murdered in a lately horrific Israeli attack. pic.twitter.com/dlb5r6wpuh
– Quds News Network (@qudsnen) 7 April, 2025
According to medical sources cited by Al Jazeera Arabic, the Israeli attacks on Gaza on Monday morning killed at least 13 people.
The network reported that two people were killed in the attack in the Jabia refugee camp and three others in Zetoun district of Gaza City.
Wafa reported that two people were killed west of Deer al-Balah in Al-Juruun area north of Gaza city.
The deadliest war for journalists
The media tent attacked a day after the killing of journalist Islam Macadad with her husband and child, the number of casualties reported between media representatives in Gaza increased.
The Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs has said that Israel’s war on Gaza is now the deadliest for media employees, according to its cost cost.
The United States’ think tank report released last week that Israeli forces killed 232 journalists and media employees as the war in Enclave began by Hamas on southern Israel by 7 October 2023 attacks.
On an average, 13 reporters and media workers have died every week in the bombing.
Statistics suggest that more journalists have been killed in conflict compared to both world wars, Vietnam War, Wars in Yugoslavia and American War in Afghanistan.
This is not clear, the think tank continued, how many journalists have been specially targeted in Gaza and “how many victims were suffering, such as thousands of fellow citizens of Israel”.
However, by the end of 2024, it cited documentation by 35 cases Borders Widout Borders (RSF), in which military targeted and killed journalists due to their work.
Citing the costs of war studies, journalist Antony Lavenstein told Al Jazeera that Israel is “deliberate targeting of journalists” and the number of media employees killed in the enclave is now “more than all conflicts in the last 100 years”.
