At least two people were killed, while several others were seriously injured and burned after an Israeli attack targeted a tent shelter journalist near Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis city in southern Gaza.
Local health officials said the strike killed journalist Hermi al-Faqawi and the Palestinian intelligence centre and QUDS News Network identified the other victim as Yusuf al-Kazandal, a young man who was in the area when it happened Monday morning.
At least seven people were injured in assault. They have been identified as Ahmad Mansour, Hassan Eslai, Ahmad al-Aga, Mohammad Fayek, Abdallah al-Atar, Ihab al-Bardini and Mahmoud Awad.
Palestinian media reported that Mansoor was seriously injured and burned from an Israeli attack on a journalist’s tent.
The QUDS News Network said the Palestinian, who is also his father, is fighting for his life with “devastating burns,” and doctors are “deeply trying to save him.”
The outlet also reported that another injured journalist was in danger.
Ihab al-Badini said he was hit in the head with a rap shotgun and that it came out of his eyes.
In a statement, the Palestinian Journalist Forum condemned the bombing as “a deliberate targeting of journalists who violated all international laws and customs.”
The fatal Israeli attack was killed by an attack on the Al Amal district of western Khan Yunis the day after he was killed along with Islamic Nashirdin Mekdad, a female Palestinian journalist, along with his child Adam.
Earlier this month, Hamas strongly condemned the ongoing intentional targeting of Palestinian journalists by Israeli forces, describing it as a serious violation of international and humanitarian law.
The resistance accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of intentionally escalating such crimes in the face of international inaction and silence.
The group also said the killing of journalists formed part of a broader genocide campaign carried out by Israeli forces against Palestinians in Gaza.
The movement noted that Israeli airstrikes, artillery and shootings reflected the occupying regime’s intentional and revenge efforts to kill more than 200 Palestinian journalists (many families and children) in Gaza, silence the media and prevent journalists from revealing the truth about what’s going on in the region.
“These unprecedented crimes against journalists in the history of modern conflict require urgent action,” Hamas said, calling for the international community, the United Nations and its judicial bodies to intervene and hold Israeli leadership accountable.
It also urged the free agency of media and press around the world to condemn these crimes and to strengthen efforts to boycott and segregate Israel in response to the systematic targeting of journalists and media workers.
MNA/Press TV