At least 211 journalists have been killed in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, according to the Palestinian government media office.
“We call on the International Federation of Journalists, the Federation of Arab Journalists, and all journalistic bodies in all countries of the world to condemn these systematic crimes against Palestinian journalists and media professionals in the Gaza Strip,” the office said.
The latest victim is Ahmed Mansour, who was wounded in an Israeli attack on a journalists’ tent in Khan Younis on Monday morning and later died at Nasser Hospital.
Social media footage showed Mansour, a reporter for Palestine Today news agency, being burned alive as rescue workers desperately tried to save him.
On Monday, the media office reported the death of another journalist, Hilmi al-Faqaawi, who worked for a local news agency, in the same strike.
Israel’s war on Gaza has killed more journalists than both world wars, the Vietnam War, the American Civil War, the wars in Yugoslavia, and the US war in Afghanistan combined, according to a report published on April 1 by the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, a US-based think tank.
The report said the war on Gaza is the deadliest conflict for media workers ever recorded, with Israeli attacks killing an average of 13 journalists per week.
According to the health ministry in Gaza, at least 1,391 Palestinians have been killed in the latest phase of Israeli operations, bringing the total death toll since the start of the war to 50,752.