Deaths add victims to what has been declared the deadliest war for media workers.
An Israeli air attack on a media tent in Gaza killed at least two people.
The bombing near the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis early Monday also injured several other journalists, according to local media. The attack was only the last to lead the victims of journalists, Israel having been accused of having deliberately targeted the press during his war in the enclave.
The tent strike outside the southern Gaza hospital around 2 am promoted it, killing the journalist Helmi al-Faqawi as well as a man named Yousef al-Khazindar, according to the Wafa news agency in Palestine.
Images shared online by the Network of New NOSs have shown the fire in fire. Some people in a crowd gathered outside tried to turn off the flames.
According to reports that nine people, including six journalists, were injured, “some seriously”, in the attack.
The Network of Nouvelles NEDs showed images of journalists Hassan Eslaih and Ihab al-Bardini on hospital beds, the latter “struck by bursts of shells in the head, which was coming out in his eye”.
Journalist Ahmad Mansour would fight for his life after suffering “serious burns”.
The Palestinians cry the journalist Helmi al-Faq’awi who was tragically murdered during the horrible Israeli attack late late on the tent of journalists outside the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis. pic.twitter.com/dlb5r6wpuh
– QUDS News Network (@qudsnen) April 7, 2025
Israeli attacks against Gaza killed at least 13 people on Monday morning, according to medical sources cited by Tel Aviv Tribune Arabic.
The network reported that two people had been killed in the strikes of the Jabalia refugee camp and three others in the Zeitoun district in Gaza City.
Wafa reported that two people had been killed west of Deir El-Balah and another in the Al-Jurun region north of Gaza City.
The deadliest war for journalists
The attack on the media tent occurred one day after the journalist Islam Meqdad was killed with her husband and child, increasing the victims reported among the representatives of the media in Gaza.
The Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs said that the War of Israel against Gaza was now the deadliest for media workers, according to its Cost of War project.
The report of the United States based on the United States, published last week said that Israeli forces had killed 232 journalists and media workers since the enclave war began as a result of Hamas’ October 7, 2023 attack on southern Israel.
On average, 13 journalists and media workers were killed each week in the bombing.
The figures show that more journalists have been killed in the conflict than in the two world wars, the Vietnam War, the Yugoslavia wars and the American war in Afghanistan combined, according to the report.
We do not know, the reflection group continued, how many journalists in Gaza have been specifically targeted and “how simply the victims were, like tens of thousands of civilians, of the bombing of Israel”.
However, he cited the documentation by journalists without borders (RSF) of 35 cases at the end of 2024 in which the army probably targeted and killed journalists because of their work.
Citing the study of war costs, journalist Antony Lowenstein told Tel Aviv Tribune that Israel was engaged in “deliberate targeting of journalists” and that the number of workers in the media killed in the enclave is now “higher than that of all conflicts in the last 100 combined years”.