Gaza: Palestinian Journalist and Family Killed in Direct Israeli Attack on Third Day of Eid
Gaza (Quds News Network)- Israeli forces killed Palestinian journalist Mohammed al-Bardawil, his wife, and three children in an attack on their home in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, earlier on Tuesday, the third day of Eid al-Fitr.
The civil defense recovered the body of the journalist Mohammed Al-Bardawil and his family after they were killed in an Israeli airstrike on their home in Khan Younis tonight. pic.twitter.com/BhKr23kKbJ
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) April 1, 2025
The number of Palestinian journalists and media workers killed since the beginning of Israel’s assault on Gaza has now risen to 209, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office.
Heartbreaking Scene | The body of journalist Mohammed Saleh Al-Bardawil arrives at Nasser Medical Hospital after he, his wife, and their three children were killed in an Israeli airstrike on their home in western Khan Younis, southern Gaza. pic.twitter.com/g2QSIWK5oH
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) April 1, 2025
The Center for Protecting Palestinian Journalists (PJPS) said that the killing of journalists is part of a series of human rights violations committed by the Israeli occupation.
Gaza’s Government Media Office said that Israel targeted journalists “in an attempt to suppress the Palestinian narrative and erase the truth. However, the occupation failed to break the will of our great people.”
Israeli Attacks on Journalists
Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza has been considered the deadliest for journalists and media workers in the world in 30 years.
Critics accuse Israel – which banned foreign reporters from entering Gaza – of targeting journalists in the Palestinian territory to obscure the truth about its war crimes there.
In its annual report, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said a record number of journalists were killed in 2024, with Israel responsible for more than two-thirds of those deaths.
The committee’s chief Jodie Ginsberg said in the statement, “The war in Gaza is unprecedented in its impact on journalists and demonstrates a major deterioration in global norms on protecting journalists in conflict zones, but it is far from the only place journalists are in danger.”
At least 85 journalists died throughout 2024 at the hands of the Israeli military during Israel’s war on Gaza, the CPJ said, with 82 of those who were killed being Palestinians.
The advocacy group also accused Israel of attempting to stifle investigations into the killings, shift blame onto journalists for their own deaths, and ignoring its duty to hold its own military personnel accountable for the killings of so many media workers.
In a recent report, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) described 2024 as “one of the worst years” for media professionals. It condemned the “massacre taking place in Palestine before the eyes of the entire world.”
In a separate report, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said Palestine is the most “dangerous country for journalists, recording a higher death toll than any other country over the past five years.”
Israel’s Resumption of War
Israeli airstrikes have killed over 1000 Palestinians and injured hundreds more after announcing the resumption of its genocide war in Gaza on March 18. The Israeli attacks marked the collapse of a ceasefire and prisoner exchange deal that had begun on January 19, 2025. The first phase ended on March 1, 2025, but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu refused to proceed with the second phase.
Netanyahu, wanted by the International Criminal Court, sought to free more Israeli captives without fulfilling Israel’s commitments, including ending the war and withdrawing from Gaza. Hamas insisted on implementing the full agreement.
Since October 7, 2023, Israeli assaults, backed by the US, have killed over 50,300 Palestinians, mostly women and children.
