Quds News Network Journalist Killed in Israeli Attack on Gaza’s Khan Younis
Gaza (Quds News Network)- Quds News Network journalist Ahmed al-Helou was killed in an Israeli attack on Thursday in Khan Younis in southern Gaza, bringing the total number of journalists killed in Israeli assaults since the beginning of the genocide in Gaza to 217.
Quds News Network confirmed the killing of al-Helou and his brother following an Israeli strike that targeted a civilian gathering near Hamad City.
Al-Helou worked in design and video editing at Quds News Network Arabic.
Gaza’s Government Media Office condemned the killing, adding 217 journalists have been killed in Israeli attacks since the start of the assault in October 2023.
It said it condemns “in the strongest terms the systematic targeting, killing and assassination of Palestinian journalists” by Israeli forces.
“We hold the Israeli occupation, the US administration, and the countries participating in the crime of genocide, such as the United Kingdom, Germany, and France, fully responsible for committing this heinous, brutal crime,” it added.
Reporters Without Borders said last month in its World Press Freedom Index 2025 that Israeli forces killed nearly 200 journalists and media workers in the first 18 months of its war in Gaza, at least 42 of whom were killed while doing their job, adding that Palestine has become the world’s most dangerous state for journalists amid the Israeli war.
“Trapped in the enclave, journalists in Gaza have no shelter and lack everything, including food and water,” said the Paris-based group, which is also known by its French acronym RSF.
Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza has been considered the deadliest for journalists and media workers in the world in 30 years.
The Gaza 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.”
Israel’s assault on Gaza has been the “worst ever conflict” for journalists, according to a recent report by the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs.
The report, titled News Graveyards: How Dangers to War Reporters Endanger the World, said the Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip had “killed more journalists than the US Civil War, World Wars I and II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War (including the conflicts in Cambodia and Laos), the wars in Yugoslavia in the 1990s and 2000s, and the post-9/11 war in Afghanistan, combined”.
