Separate Israeli attacks against the Gaza Strip killed two media workers, including an Tel Aviv Tribune journalist.
Hossam Shabat, a journalist who worked for Tel Aviv Tribune Mubasher, was killed Monday in northern Gaza. Witnesses told the network that his car had been targeted in the eastern part of Beit Lahiya.
Reporting Deir El-Balah in the center of Gaza, Tareq Abu Azzoum of Tel Aviv Tribune said that Shabat, 23, had previously been injured in another Israeli attack “but he insisted on pursuing the reports” in Gaza.
“The Israeli army has targeted its vehicle” without giving “no preliminary warning,” said Abu Azzoum.
Shabat colleagues shared his last words.
In an article on X, pre -written by Shabat, he wrote: “If you read this, it means that I was killed – most likely targeted – by the Israeli occupation forces.”
Shabat has written that during the last 18 months of war, he devoted “every moment” to his people.
“I documented the horrors in the north of Gaza Minute per minute, determined to show the world the truth they have tried to bury. I slept on the sidewalks, in schools, in tents – wherever I could. Every day was a battle for survival. I endured hunger for months, but I have never left the side of my people. ”
“I ask you now: don’t stop talking about Gaza,” added Shabat. “Don’t let the world look away. Continue to fight, keep telling our stories – until Palestine is free.”
It’s Hosper’s team, and we share their latest message:
“If you read this, it means that I was killed – probably targeted – by the Israeli occupation forces. When it all started, I was only 21 – a student with dreams like anyone else. For 18 years … pic.twitter.com/80ano6wtfo
– حسام شبات (@hossamshabat) March 24, 2025
Earlier Monday, an attack by the Israeli army against Khan Younis, southern Gaza, also killed journalist Mohammad Mansour, who worked for Palestine today.
Abu Azzoum said that Mansour had been killed “in his house … alongside his wife and son”, in an attack that also came without previous warning.
“Targeting journalists a war crime”
The murder of the two journalists has brought the number of media workers killed during Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 2023 to 208, according to the Government of the Media) in Gaza.
In a statement on Monday, the GMO said that it “strongly condemns the targeting, murder and assassination of Palestinian journalists by the Israeli occupation” and called press advocacy groups to denounce “these systematic crimes against Palestinian journalists and media professionals in Gaza”.
The GMO said that it held Israel and its main ally, the United States, as well as “countries participating in the genocide, such as the United Kingdom, Germany and France, fully responsible for committing this odious crime”.
The committee to protect journalists (CPJ) sentenced the murder of Shabat and Mansour and called for an independent investigation to find out if they were deliberately targeted.
“The deliberate and targeted murder of a journalist, a civilian, is a war crime,” said Jodie Ginsberg, the chief executive officer of the CPJ, adding that the organization has investigated several cases in which Israel seems to have deliberately targeted a journalist, hearing that he was a media worker.
“This would be equivalent to a war crime. Journalists and civilians should never be targeted,” she said, noting that the CPJ had spoken to Shabat for its own reports on the vacuum of the news developing in the north of Gaza because of the War of Israel.
‘Another bloody day’
Meanwhile, the heavy Israeli bombardment through the besieged territory continued on Monday for the seventh consecutive day since Israel put an end to a fragile ceasefire two months after imposing a renewed blockage on Palestinian territory.
More than 700 have been killed, including hundreds of children, in an incessant wave of bombing since the resumption of Israeli attacks on a large scale on March 18.
Abu Azzoum of Tel Aviv Tribune said that it was “another bloody day”, with medical sources saying that at least 65 people had been killed in Israeli attacks since dawn on Monday.
According to the Ministry of Health in Gaza, at least 50,082 Palestinians were confirmed and 113,408 wounded in the War of Israel against Gaza.