Death increases the number of casualties in what has been declared the most deadly war ever for media workers.
At least two people have been killed in Israel’s air force attacks on a media tent in Gaza.
The bombing near Nasser Hospital in Khan Eunice early Monday injured several other reporters, according to local media. The attack is the latest to reach journalist casualties, and Israel has been accused of deliberately targeting the media during the war on the enclave.
According to Palestinian WAFA News Agency, a strike in a tent outside a hospital in southern Gaza began to burn around 2am, killing journalists Hermi al-Faqawi and a man named Yousef al-khazindar.
Video shared online by the QUDS News Network showed the tent had set fire to it. Several people in the crowd gathered outside to try to extinguish the flames.
Six of nine journalists said they were “seriously” injured in the attack, according to reports.
QUDS News Network showed footage of journalists Hassan Eslai and Ihab al Bardini in hospital beds.
Journalist Ahmad Mansoor reportedly fought for his life after suffering from “severe burns.”
The Palestinian lamented journalist Hermi Al-Fawi and was tragically killed in a journalist’s tent outside Khan Eunice’s Nasser Hospital, finally in a horrifying Israeli attack. pic.twitter.com/dlb5r6wpuh
– Quds News Network (@qudsnen) April 7, 2025
Israel killed at least 13 attacks on Gaza on Monday morning, according to medical sources cited by Al-Jazeera Arabic.
The network reported that two people have been killed in a strike at the Jabaria refugee camp, and three other people have been killed in Gaza’s Zeitoun district.
WAFA reported that two people were killed west of Deir El-Balah and the other in the Arjurun area north of Gaza city.
The most deadly war for journalists
The attack on the media tent came one day after journalist Islamic Mekdad was killed along with her husband and children, increasing the number of reported casualties among media representatives in Gaza.
The Watson Institute for International Public Service says Israel’s war with Gaza is now the most deadly ever for media workers, depending on the cost of the war project.
A report from the US-based think tank, released last week, said Israeli forces have killed 232 journalists and media workers since the war began after the Hamas attacks in Israel on October 7, 2023.
On average, 13 reporters and media workers were killed each week in artillery fire.
The numbers show that more journalists were killed in conflicts than in both the World War, the Vietnam War, the War in Yugoslavia and the US War in Afghanistan, the report said.
Think tanks continue, with the number of Gaza journalists being specifically targeted, “how many casualties were there simply, like tens of thousands of fellow civilians in Israeli artillery fire?”
But it cited 35 documents by reporters without borders (RSF) until the end of 2024.
Citing the costs of war research, journalist Antony Lowenstein said Israel is engaged in “deliberate targeting of journalists,” and the number of media workers killed on the spot is “larger than that of all conflicts in the last 100 years.”
