Monday, April 7, 2025 - An Israeli airstrike hit a tent used by local media in southern Gaza on Monday morning, killing a Palestinian journalist while nine others were wounded.
Footage
showed people trying to douse flames from a fire in the tent, inside the
compound of the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, in the early hours of Monday.
Other
footage posted on social media appeared to show that the tent had been burned
to the ground, along with the furniture and equipment inside it.
At the
time of filing this report, Israeli authorities did not immediately respond to
a request for comment.
Gaza
medics said a second Palestinian was also killed in the attack, adding that
dozens of journalists and relatives later took part in the funeral of the dead
journalist, Helmy al-Faqawi.
Colleagues
carried his white-shrouded body on a medical stretcher with his blue flak
jacket placed on top.
“We will
continue to deliver the message and convey the truth to the whole world. This
is our humanitarian duty,” said fellow journalist Abd Shaath, who added that
they were woken by the strike to find the nearby tent of their colleagues on
fire.
According
to the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate, Faqawi’s death raised the number of
journalists killed by Israel’s campaign in Gaza to more than 210 since October
2023.
In total,
local health authorities said Israeli military strikes had killed no fewer than
10 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip on Monday.
Israel
began its offensive after thousands of Hamas-led gunmen attacked communities in
southern Israel on October 7, 2023, killing 1,200 people and abducting 251 as
hostages.
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