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Rabat – Yet more disturbing footage of the atrocities that Israel is committing in Gaza is again going viral, this time showing journalists being burned alive in a tent.
At least one Palestinian journalist was burned alive in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, after an Israeli airstrike hit an area near Nasser Hospital, where a group of journalists had set up a tent.
The Palestinian Information Center and the Quds News Network identified the victim as journalist Helmi al-Faqawi. Shocking footage circulating online showed him engulfed in flames as people tried desperately to save him.
The attack also killed Yusuf Al-Khazandar, a young man who was in the area as the strike took place, and injured at least seven other journalists.
One of the journalists, believed to be Ahmed Mansour, worked for Palestine Today and was a father.
According to Wael Abo Omar, a Palestinian journalist, Israeli missiles hit the journalists’ camp near the hospital, setting fire to the tent where Mansour was sitting. He is now in intensive care with serious burns. Another journalist, Mahmoud Bassam, said Mansour “needs a miracle” to survive.
Many Palestinian journalists have been intentially targeted and murdered by Israeli forces while reporting on the war on Gaza. In late March, Al Jazeera’s correspondent Hossam Shabat and Palestine Today’s reporter Mohammed Mansour were also killed by Israeli airstrikes.
Before his death, Hossam Shabat had written a final message: “By God, I fulfilled my duty as a journalist. I risked everything to report the truth.” His team shared it after he was targeted in northern Gaza.
Since the start of the genocide, Israel has blocked foreign journalists from entering Gaza and has continued to target local Palestinian reporters. At least 210 journalists have been killed since the war began.
The Palestinian Journalists Forum released a statement condemning Israel’s attack on the tent sheltering journalists. The forum described the attack as a “heinous crime and a deliberate targeting of journalists that violated all international laws and conventions.”
