On Monday, the Israeli military killed two journalists in Gaza in separate attacks, continuing the IDF’s rampant targeting of Palestinian reporters.
Mohammad Mansour, a correspondent for Palestine Today TV, was killed by an Israeli airstrike on a home near the southern city of Khan Younis. Two women were also killed by the attack.
In northern Gaza, 23-year-old Hossam Shabat, a reporter for Al Jazeera, was killed by an Israeli strike on his car. Shabat was also a contributor to the American news site Drop Site News. He was previously put on a kill list by the IDF, which accused him of being a “terrorist” without providing evidence.
“Israel publicly put Hossam on a kill list and he would receive threatening calls and warnings. He saw his friends murdered. Yet he never ceased his journalism, his absolute dedication to showing the world the reality of the Israeli genocide against the Palestinians of Gaza,” Jeremy Scahill, co-founder of Drop Site News, wrote on X.
According to Gaza’s Government Media Office, the deaths of Mansour and Shabat brought the total number of journalists killed by Israel in Gaza since October 2023 to 208.
The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate described Israel’s actions as the “deadliest massacre against journalists in modern history—amidst an alarming international silence and disgraceful complicity with the crimes of the occupation.”
The killing of Mansour and Shabat came less than a week after Israel restarted its large-scale bombing of Gaza last Tuesday. “I thought it was over and I’d finally get some rest, but the genocide is back in full force, and I’m back on the front lines,” Shabat recently wrote on X.
Al Jazeera reported that Israeli attacks on Gaza on Monday had killed at least 65 Palestinians, a number that’s expected to rise as relentless Israeli strikes continue.
