Gaza: Journalist Dies from Injuries Sustained in Israeli Attack on Journalists’ Tent
Gaza (Quds News Network)- Palestinian journalist Saeed Abu Hassanein has died from injuries he sustained in an Israeli attack on a media tent in southern Gaza earlier this month, raising the death toll from the assault to at least four.
Gaza’s Government Media Office said
the Israeli attack also burned Palestine Today reporter Hilmi al-Faqaawi to death along with another man named Yousef al-Khazindar. Journalist Ahmed Mansour also burned alive and later died of severe burns.
Journalists Hassan Eslaih, Ahmed al-Agha, Muhammad Fayek, Abdallah Al-Attar, Ihab al-Bardini and Mahmoud Awad were also injured.
The Office said that with the death of Abu Hassanein, the number of Palestinian journalists killed by Israel has risen to 212 since the war began in October 2023.
“The Government Media Office condemns in the strongest terms the targeting, killing, and assassination of Palestinian journalists by the Israeli occupation,” the Office said in a statement.
“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,” it added.
