The Israel-Gaza war has taken a catastrophic toll on Gazan journalists since Israel declared war on Hamas following its attack on Israel on October 7, 2023.
As of September 3, 2025, CPJ’s preliminary investigations showed at least 197 journalists and media workers were among the more than tens of thousands killed in Gaza, the West Bank, Israel, and Lebanon since the war began, making it the deadliest period for journalists since CPJ began gathering data in 1992.
CPJ is investigating more than 130 additional cases of potential journalists killings, arrests, and injuries, and damage to media offices and homes, cases that remain difficult to document and verify amid these harsh conditions and devastation.
Journalists in Gaza face extreme, often fatal, risks as they try to cover the war, including relentless Israeli airstrikes, the destruction of most of the territory’s infrastructure, the forced displacement of 90% of Gaza’s population, trauma, and widespread famine.
“Since October 7, 2023, Palestinian journalists have been slaughtered with impunity, while the world watches. This is a direct, unprecedented assault on press freedom,” said CPJ Regional Director Sara Qudah. “Journalists cannot carry out their work — let alone survive — while being deliberately starved and denied life-saving aid. Israel must allow humanitarians, international media, and human rights investigators into Gaza at once.”
As of September 3, 2025:
- 197 journalists and media workers were confirmed killed: 189 Palestinians in Gaza, two Israelis, and six Lebanese.
- 152 journalists were reported injured.
- 2 journalists were reported missing.
- 90 journalists were reported arrested.
- Multiple assaults, threats, cyberattacks, censorship, and killings of family members.
Most Palestinian journalist killings — two-thirds — were caused by Israeli airstrikes. The second most frequent cause of death was by drone strike, with more than two dozen press members killed.
In the days surrounding the war’s one-year anniversary on October 7, 2024, two journalists in Gaza were killed and three were injured, prompting CPJ to renew its call for an end to impunity in Israel’s attacks on journalists.
Targeted murder of journalists
Journalists are civilians and protected by international law. Deliberately targeting civilians constitutes a war crime.
To date, CPJ has determined that a total of 26 journalists and media workers were directly targeted and killed by Israeli forces, cases that CPJ classifies as murders.
The 24 journalists murdered are: Ahmad Qalaja, Ahmed Mansour, Anas al-Sharif, Ayman Al Gedi, Fadi Hassouna, Faisal Abu Al Qumsan, Ghassan Najjar, Hamza Al Dahdouh, Hilmi al-Faqaawi, Hossam Shabat, Ismail Al Ghoul, Ismail Baddah, Issam Abdallah, Mahmoud Islim Al-Basos, Moamen Aliwa, Mohammad al-Khaldi, Mohammed Al-Ladaa, Mohammed Noufal, Mohammed Qreiqeh, Mustafa Thuraya, Rami Al Refee, Suleiman Hajjaj, and Wissam Kassem. The two media workers are Ibrahim Sheikh Ali and Mohammed Reda Ibrahim.
CPJ continues to investigate at least 20 other cases that show signs of possible targeting.
Israel Defense Forces (IDF) officials have repeatedly told media outlets that the army does not deliberately target journalists. Shortly after the war started, the IDF also told news agencies that it could not guarantee the safety of journalists operating in Gaza. CPJ has called for an end to the longstanding pattern of impunity in cases of journalists killed by the IDF.
The list of killed journalists documented in our database includes names based on information obtained from CPJ’s sources in the region and media reports. It includes all journalists* involved in news-gathering activity. It is not always immediately clear whether all of these journalists were covering the conflict at the time of their deaths, but CPJ has included them in its count as it investigates their circumstances.
The list is being updated on a regular basis, with names being removed if CPJ confirms that those members of the media were not working journalists at the time they were killed, injured, or went missing.
The lists below detail those injured and missing in the Israel-Gaza war:
INJURED
CPJ is aware that many Palestinian journalists have been injured during the war. CPJ counts the journalists’ cases it has been able to document and continues to investigate others.
August 31, 2025
Qariqa, a 29-year-old freelance photographer and filmmaker, was lightly injured while covering an Israeli airstrike on the Al-Sabra neighborhood of southern Gaza City.
“I had just finished filming my report and was standing near civil defense crews and medics when a resident told us more homes might be targeted, but it was unclear which ones,” Qariqa, a father of two who contributes to Qatari-funded Al Jazeera, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), and Britain’s BBC, told CPJ.
“Suddenly, a nearby house was bombed just meters away. I ran, but the stones struck me from behind, and despite wearing a “Press” vest, I was injured in my back from the force of the debris.”
Qariqa said he was taken to Al-Ahli Baptist hospital in Gaza City, where he received treatment before being discharged three hours later.
August 26, 2025
Abu Zubaida, editor-in-chief of the Palestinian news site 180 Investigations and a military analyst for numerous outlets, was injured when an Israeli airstrike hit his family home in Al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza at around 1:15 a.m.
“Without any prior warning, Israeli warplanes bombed our house in Al-Bureij camp, which was crowded with displaced members of my family. The strike caused many serious injuries and killed my mother, my brother and his wife, my two sisters, and two of their children,” Abu Zubaida, a 45-year-old father of five, told CPJ.
“I suffered a fracture in … my left foot. I was transferred first to Al-Awda Hospital in Al-Nuseirat refugee camp, then to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, where I stayed for more than five hours without effective treatment due to the collapse of the health system. I later returned home to search for my family under the rubble.
After three days, when my foot worsened, I went to the Belgian Field Hospital in Al-Zawaida, where I received treatment and was discharged after several hours.”On March 2, 2024, Israeli forces arrested Abu Zubaida and his brother Ibrahim at a checkpoint in Khan Yunis while residents were evacuating under fire; he was held for nearly a year in harsh conditions in Israel’s Sde Teiman detention center and later the West Bank’s Ofer Prison, experiencing mistreatment and denial of medical care, before being released on February 27, 2025.
August 25, 2025
Hatem Khaled
Khaled, a 45-year-old Palestinian photographer who contributes to Reuters news agency, was injured in an Israeli strike on Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza. Multiple strikes killed at least five journalists — Ahmed Abu Aziz, Hussam Al-Masri, Mohammed Salama, Mariam Abu Dagga, and Moaz Abu Taha — alongside at least 20 other people. Al-Masri was killed in the first strike, while the others were killed while covering the aftermath of the initial strike.
Khaled told CPJ that he and other journalists had been staying in tents outside the hospital, using the site as a base to cover events in the city. He said he was preparing to film a story, not far from where the Reuters camera used for live feeds was set up, when the eastern side of the hospital was hit.
“I rushed to the scene and went upstairs to see the destruction,” Khaled said. “If Hussam were still alive, I would have saved him before beginning to film, but he had already been killed. I reported the incident to our WhatsApp group, then returned to get my camera and began documenting the Israeli strike. Medics, civil defense crews, and other photographers were at the site when a second blast occurred minutes later. That’s when I lost consciousness.”
A photograph by AFP and video shared by Middle East Eye showed Khaled covered in blood after being hit and in hospital. Khaled told CPJ he was injured on the right side of his body, sustaining shrapnel wounds to his head, shoulder, and neck, as well as damage to his right ear, and was receiving treatment at the hospital.
Khaled, a father of six, holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism and media from Al-Aqsa University in Gaza and a master’s degree in diplomacy and international relations. He has worked as a photographer for 23 years.
Jamal Baddah
Baddah, a 20-year-old Palestinian who works for Palestine Today TV, was injured in the same Israeli strikes on Nasser Hospital.
“I rushed to the [first] targeted site and began documenting the event with my camera, along with journalist Ahmed Abu Aziz,” Baddah told CPJ. “While we were filming Hussam Al-Masri’s body, there was another strike that wounded everyone there. Among those killed in the second strike was our colleague Ahmed Abu Aziz. I was also injured, resulting in the amputation of my right leg and a fracture in my left leg, along with shrapnel in my body. I am still receiving treatment at the Nasser medical complex.”
Baddah was in his first year at Al-Isra University, majoring in photography and editing, when the war began.
“I began filming full-time, not just as a trainee, right away. I live in the northern Gaza Strip, but I covered the area of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip. This was what was required of me, and I continued to do so because I had a message I wanted to communicate,” he told CPJ.
“Although I am at the beginning of my professional career and have lost my leg, I am determined to continue my journey. The Israeli occupation will not be able to silence us and stop our cameras. During the war, I completed my first year at university. I will finish my studies and continue my work.”
Mohammed Fayeq
Fayeq, 29, a freelance photojournalist and drone operator, was injured in the same Israeli strikes on Nasser Hospital.
CPJ spoke to Fayeq’s brother, Diaa Fayeq, who said, “Mohammed was rushing up to Hussam Al-Masri at the top of Nasser medical complex when a second strike occurred, seriously wounding Mohammed and several others. A number of photographers, civilians, doctors, as well as a civil defense officer were also killed.”
“Mohammed received shrapnel in his spinal cord and head, and four vertebrae were broken. He has lost the ability to walk and shrapnel is still embedded throughout his body. He remains at Nasser medical complex,” Fayeq’s brother said.
Fayeq graduated from the Technical College in Deir al-Balah with a degree in journalism and media. He was previously injured on April 7, 2025, when an Israeli airstrike hit a media tent housing journalists killing two journalists and injured eight others on the grounds of Nasser Hospital.
Mohamed Ashraf Salama, a 22-year-old freelance photojournalist who contributes to Turkish state-owned TRT World and Qatari-funded Al Jazeera Mubashar was injured in the same Israeli attack on Nasser Hospital.
“I was at the hospital gate when the first strike hit, and I was injured by shrapnel in my left shoulder,” Salama told CPJ, adding that he received treatment at the hospital for an hour and a half.
August 10, 2025
Mohamad Subuh
Mohamad Subuh, a 38-year-old Palestinian correspondent for the pro-Fatah satellite broadcaster Al-Kofiya TV, was injured in an Israeli strike that targeted Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif in a journalists’ tent outside the main gate of Gaza City’s Al-Shifa Hospital. Six journalists died in the attack.
“I had just finished my live report with the channel and entered the Al-Kofiya TV tent,” he said adding that Al Jazeera’s tent was next to the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate tent, which was next to Al-Kofiya’s tent.
“I wanted to sit down when the explosion occurred at exactly 11:22 p.m., and I found myself falling to the ground,” Subuh told CPJ on August 11:
“The bombing was from an Israeli drone with a single missile, causing a massive explosion that left behind a large amount of shrapnel. I was injured by shrapnel in my back and another in my left leg,” he said, adding that he spent 12 hours receiving treatment in Al-Shifa and Al-Ahli Baptist hospitals.
Mohammed Qita
Mohammed Qita, a 30-year-old freelance reporter and camera operator who contributes to Qatari-based Al Jazeera Mubasher, was injured in the same deadly Israeli strike outside Gaza City’s Al-Shifa Hospital.
“I left the [Palestinian] Journalists’ Syndicate tent, next to the Al Jazeera tent, and stood at its door to catch the internet signal. Then, a huge explosion occurred, sending shrapnel flying. It turned out that the bombing was carried out by a missile fired from an Israeli drone,” Qita told CPJ on August 11.
“My colleague Mohammad al-Khaldi was behind me, but I was closer to the site of the bombing. He called out to me to escape. He didn’t feel injured, but it turned out he had suffered internal bleeding and was martyred. I was also injured without realizing it. I went to help rescue my colleagues.”
Qita said he sustained two shrapnel wounds in his back and burns to his left hand, as he tried to extinguish the flames on al-Khaldi’s body, and received hospital treatment for two hours.
Ahmed al-Harrazein
Ahmed al-Harazein, a 29-year-old driver and logistics provider for Al Jazeera, was injured in the same deadly Israeli strike outside Gaza City’s Al-Shifa Hospital.
“He was outside the tent, several meters away from it. Several shrapnel pieces pierced his legs and back. He was admitted to the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital,” Mohammed Qita, who was also injured, told CPJ.
August 2, 2025
Abdulrahman Battah, 18, a Palestinian social media commentator known as Abod Battah, was injured by two bullets fired by an Israeli sniper north of Gaza City on August 2, 2025.
Battah, who is displaced from Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, told CPJ that he had arrived at an area known to Israeli forces as Zikim, north of Gaza City, around 2 p.m., where a limited number of humanitarian aid trucks were entering.
“I stood on a hill away from civilians and Israeli soldiers, and began recording on my phone. Suddenly, an Israeli sniper shot me twice just above my left knee,” Battah said.
He added that due to the danger in the area, no ambulances were present. “I had to walk about three kilometers to reach the edge of a residential area, and then some friends drove me to the Palestinian Red Crescent’s field hospital in the Al-Saraya area of Gaza City,” Battah said. He remained there for about two hours before being discharged.
July 27, 2025
Israeli forces shot and injured Abdul Hadi Farhat, a 27-year-old correspondent for the television channel Yemen Today, in the left thigh while he covered the entry of humanitarian aid in northern Gaza.“
I heard that Israeli forces had opened a humanitarian corridor to allow aid into the Al-Sudaniya area northwest of Gaza City. I went to document the scene, where thousands of starving Palestinians had gathered,” Farhat told CPJ. “I filmed the first aid truck arriving, and as the second came through – around 11 a.m. – soldiers opened fire and launched shells at us.”
Farhat, a father of two, told CPJ that he bled for a long time and had to administer first aid to himself before reaching Hamad Hospital in Al-Sudaniya. From there, he was transferred to Al-Shifa hospital in western Gaza City, where he waited for two hours without treatment due to overcrowding and shortages of medical supplies. Eventually, he went to Al-Sahaba Medical Complex, where the bullet was removed and the wound stitched. He has returned home to recover.
On November 9, 2024, Farhat was also wounded when Israeli airstrikes hit the courtyard of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah.
July 26, 2025
Abu Foul, a 50-year-old journalist and head of the nongovernmental Palestinian Network for Journalism and Media, was injured when hit by an aid truck amid Israeli fire while covering the entry of humanitarian convoys into northern Gaza for his network which publishes on a WhatsApp group.
“Suddenly and without reason, Israeli forces opened heavy fire on us, forcing us to run and seek cover. During the chaos, I was run over by one of the trucks,” Abu Foul, a father of four, told CPJ.
“I was injured in my right leg and taken to Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City, where I stayed for 48 hours before being discharged,” he added.
July 24, 2025
Ahmad Hamdan, a 26-year-old freelance photojournalist who has worked with Agence France-Presse news agency, Qatari-funded media outlets Al-Araby TV, Al Jazeera, and AJ+, and Turkish state-owned Anadolu Agency, was injured in the leg and head after an Israeli drone struck his family’s tent in western Gaza City. Several members of his family were also injured, and at least three – his uncle and two children – were killed.
His colleague Anas Al-Sharif, a reporter for Al Jazeera, told CPJ that Hamdan is originally from Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza and had been documenting life in the north, where few other journalists remained.
Following the Israeli forces’ destruction of his Beit Hanoun home, Hamdan and his family were displaced to a tented area near the Legislative Council building in western Gaza City, where the drone strike occurred. He was transferred to the city’s Al-Shifa hospital for treatment.
July 23, 2025
Gevara Safadi, a 38-year-old photographer, was injured by shrapnel from an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City’s Sheikh Radwan neighborhood. He was at home when an Israeli warplane struck a neighboring house around 6 p.m., according to his wife, Sanaa Al-Safadi.
Safadi, who works for the satellite broadcaster Al-Kofiya TV, affiliated with the Democratic Reform Current within the Fatah Movement, also contributes to the Turkish state-owned Anadolu Agency and is the father of three daughters.
“Our home was partially damaged, and Gevara was hit by shrapnel all over his body — most seriously in his right side,” his wife told CPJ, adding that he was taken to a neighborhood clinic for treatment and discharged an hour later to recover at home.
July 22, 2025
Osayd Mdoukh
Osayd Mdoukh, a 38-year-old camera operator for the satellite broadcaster Al-Kofiya TV, which is affiliated with the Democratic Reform Current within the Fatah Movement, told CPJ he was injured after being run over by an aid truck entering northern Gaza.
Mdoukh, a father of three, told CPJ he had not received his $400 salary for three months due to soaring commission fees charged by money changers – sometimes as high as 50%.
“I couldn’t feed my wife and children for nearly a month,” Mdoukh said, explaining why he went to Zikim, near the border, where limited aid convoys were entering.
“Around noon, the trucks came in. As I reached them along with the crowds, I was run over. The truck drove over me, causing internal bleeding, fractures throughout my body, and a severe hematoma in my left thigh,” Mdoukh said.
He was taken to the Palestinian Red Crescent’s field hospital in central Gaza City and remained there in late July, without access to necessary treatment.
July 17, 2025
Zahar Saleh, a 22-year-old Palestinian freelance photojournalist who contributes to Britain’s Channel 4 News broadcaster, was injured by Israeli drone fire in central Gaza City.
He had been reporting on Israel’s bombing of a church in Gaza’s Old City that morning, the journalist’s brother, Abdel Hakim Saleh, told CPJ.
“Zaher went to document the aftermath,” he said. “After finishing his documentation, he went to a central Gaza location that offers internet access to send out his footage. Around noon, an Israeli drone fired on him, hitting him in the left thigh.”
Saleh was transported to Jerusalem Hospital in Gaza City’s Tel al-Hawa neighborhood. He was treated for three hours and was scheduled to undergo surgery this following week, his brother told CPJ on July 17.
July 15, 2025
Akram Dalloul, a 40-year-old correspondent for the Lebanon-based broadcaster Al-Mayadeen, was injured by shrapnel from Israeli missile fire in Gaza City’s eastern neighborhood Al-Zeitoun.
Dalloul, a father of four, had just finished filming a televised report in his neighborhood around 10:30 a.m. when the area came under fire, according to his colleague, Al-Mayadeen camera operator Wissam Baalusha.
“I went with Akram and our fellow cameraman Abdulaziz Al-Afifi to film a report for Al-Mayadeen in Al-Zaytoun, where Akram lives,” Baalusha told CPJ. “After finishing, Abdulaziz and I got into the car to leave, and Akram started walking toward his house. Moments later, Israeli artillery fired a shell. We rushed back and found Akram had been hit by shrapnel on the left side of his head. There were also multiple casualties in the area.”
Dalloul was taken to Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in central Gaza City, where he remained as of late July.
On July 23, Dalloul wrote on Facebook that, despite several days of treatment, there had been no improvement in vision in his left eye, which continued to bleed; while doctors had offered some reassurances, he said, prayers remained important and he thanked God “in all circumstances.”
July 7, 2025
Fadi Turban, a 27-year-old Palestinian freelance photojournalist contributing to Jordan’s Roya TV and privately owned, Qatari-based broadcaster Al Jazeera, was injured by an Israeli drone strike in Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp.
“I was walking through the camp at around 11:15 p.m. when an Israeli drone struck a group of civilians,” Turban told CPJ.
Shrapnel struck his right eye, where it remains lodged, and another fragment hit his left ear and exited. He was taken to Al-Awda Hospital and Deir al-Balah’s Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital and Yaffa Hospital and discharged to await surgery to remove the shrapnel.
July 3, 2025
Islam Al Zaanoun, a 35-year-old Palestinian freelance journalist who contributes to multiple outlets, including Morocco’s Medi1TV and the Palestinian Authority-run Palestine TV, was shot by an Israeli drone minutes after completing a live broadcast in central Gaza City.
Al Zaanoun, who is a mother of three, was covering Israeli operations near a camp for displaced people at the Dabait intersection in Gaza City when she was injured. “After finishing the broadcast,” she told CPJ, “I walked with the camerawoman, and after about 150 meters (164 yards), at 3:15 p.m., an Israeli drone fired directly at me and hit my right shoulder.”
The bullet is still lodged there, she said.
Al Zaanoun was initially taken to Al-Shifa medical complex in western Gaza, where she was treated before being transferred to Al-Quds Hospital in Tel al-Hawa for imaging scans. She was later sent home, where she awaits surgery.
July 1, 2025
Youssef Al-Saudi
Youssef Al-Saudi, a 23-year-old Palestinian freelance photojournalist contributing to Algeria’s state-owned broadcaster EPTV was injured by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City’s Al-Zaytoun neighborhood.
“I was in Al-Zaytoun covering the aftermath of an Israeli airstrike on a house at around 5 p.m., when another missile struck a nearby location. Stones and shrapnel hit my head and left foot,” he told CPJ, adding that he was treated briefly at the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital. “I left the hospital quickly to resume my work.”
Al-Saudi was previously wounded in an Israeli airstrike on the Al-Shuja’iya neighborhood in eastern Gaza City on January 3, 2025.
Abu Al-Saud, a 33-year-old correspondent for Houthi-controlled Yemen TV and a father of four, was injured by an Israeli airstrike near a mobile phone charging station in western Gaza City.
“The Israeli army had threatened to strike a nearby residential building. While heading there, they struck the charging point,” Abu Al-Saud told CPJ. “A piece of shrapnel hit my left hand.”
He was treated at Al-Shifa Hospital without anesthesia due to lack of supplies and discharged two hours later.
Abu Al-Saud was previously injured on August 15, 2024.
June 30, 2025
Freelance journalist Bayan Abusultan was injured in an Israeli airstrike that targeted Al-Baqa Café, a popular beachfront location in western Gaza City known to host local journalists and residents. The strike, which occurred around 2:50 p.m., killed more than 20 civilians, including Palestinian filmmaker and photojournalist Ismail Abu Hatab, according to photographer Majdi Fathi, who was nearby at the time and spoke to CPJ.
Abusultan, who is widely known for posting news from Gaza on her social media accounts, was hit by shrapnel in her chest and head, Fathi said. Photos from the scene show Abusultan visibly wounded, walking through the aftermath of the blast.
CPJ contacted Abusultan for comment following the attack, but she declined to speak. She later published a detailed personal account on her Facebook page describing the moments leading up to and following the strike. She said she had been “sitting at a table next to journalist Ismail Abu Hatab shortly before the airstrike.” Abusultan described crawling under a table for cover while a friend shielded her from shrapnel.
“I turned my head and saw a leg without a body,” she wrote. “A girl next to me was trying to speak, but she died before saying anything.”
When she stood up, Abusultan saw that Abu Hatab and artist Frances Salmi had been killed. She said that she only realized she was injured when she tried to lift her bag and felt a sharp pain in her shoulder.
Mohammed Nabil Rafiq Skaik
Mohammed Skaik, a 40-year-old Palestinian freelance camera operator and video editor who works with the privately owned, Qatari-based broadcaster Al Jazeera English and Nawa Network, a news site published by the Palestinian NGO Filastiniyat, was injured by shrapnel from an Israeli strike in Deir al-Balah.
Skaik told CPJ he was sitting inside a journalists’ tent at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital around 11:30 a.m. when an Israeli drone hit a nearby displaced persons’ tent.
“I stood up to film, felt pain, and a colleague found shrapnel lodged near my spine,” he said, adding that he was treated briefly at Al-Aqsa and Yaffa hospitals.
June 27, 2025
Alhesi, 32, a correspondent for the privately owned, Qatari-based broadcaster Al Jazeera Mubasher, was injured by Israeli airstrikes on a residential building in western Gaza City, along with two other journalists.
Alhesi, a father of two, told CPJ that he had parked his car and was about to get out when the missiles struck. Video showed him sitting behind the wheel, looking dazed.
“Shrapnel struck the entire left side of my bodyーmy hand, back, and leg,” he told CPJ, adding that he spent five hours receiving treatment at the city’s Al-Shifa Hospital.
Mohammed Hammo
Mohammed Hammo, a 37-year-old correspondent for the Saudi news channels Al Arabiya and Al Hadath and a father of three, was inside a café about 50 meters from the residential building that was hit.
“The area was considered safe by the occupation [Israel],” he told CPJ, referring to part of Gaza designated by the Israeli military as a safe zone, which has shrunk to about one-tenth of the territory.
Hammo sustained shrapnel wounds to his left leg and received on-site medical treatment.
Mamdoh Al Sayed
Mamdoh Al Sayed, a 42-year-old camera operator for Al Arabiya and Al Hadath and a father of three, was struck by shrapnel in the back while inside the same café. He received field treatment.
The team’s driver, Mohammed Abu Hajar, also sustained bruises across his body.
Abu Alshaar, a 42-year-old Palestinian freelance journalist for the privately owned, Qatari-based broadcaster Al Jazeera Mubasher and Britain’s BBC, was injured by shrapnel from an Israeli strike near Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in central Gaza.
“I was walking outside the hospital at 5:30 p.m. when the drone targeted a group nearby,” he told CPJ. “I continued filming, then felt pain, and discovered a piece of shrapnel lodged in my thigh.”
He was treated and discharged after three hours.
Abu Alshaar was previously injured on January 14, 2025, when an Israeli airstrike hit his family home in the Al-Daraj neighborhood of central Gaza City around 9 a.m.
“Without warning, warplanes bombed our house. I was hit in the head by flying debris, my baby was wounded, and my mother too. Six of my nieces and nephews were killed, along with my brother-in-law who had been sheltering with us,” he told CPJ, adding that he was treated at Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital and discharged the same day.
June 9, 2025
Abu Armana, a 38-year-old freelance photographer and a father of two who works with the privately owned Qatari-based broadcaster Al Jazeera Mubasher, was injured by an Israeli strike in Al-Mawasi, west of Khan Yunis.
“I was in what the Israeli army calls a safe zone, when a drone hit a displaced person’s tent around noon,” Abu Armana told CPJ. “I sustained shrapnel injuries to my left hand, shattering the joint and damaging nerves.”
He was treated at a Red Cross field hospital and transferred to Nasser Hospital, where he received X-rays and was discharged four hours later.
He was previously injured on October 14, 2024.
June 5, 2025
Ramadan Abu Sakran, a 32-year-old freelance journalist and photographer for Al Araby TV and Al Jazeera Mubasher, was injured when an Israeli drone strike hit a group of journalists at Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in central Gaza City.
“The Israeli drone targeted a table where several journalists were sitting in the courtyard of Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital,” Abu Sakran, a father of three, told CPJ. “I suffered a minor injury to my hand, received treatment at the hospital, and was discharged shortly after.”
He was previously injured:
- On January 28, 2024, by Israeli forces shelling the United Nations Development Programme shelter center in western Gaza City, where he had taken refuge overnight. Abu Skran told CPJ he sustained shrapnel wounds to the intestines and colon, and a gunshot wound to his left shoulder that resulted in partial loss of the shoulder and nerve damage. He said he received initial assistance from family and friends at the shelter until 6 a.m., when he was transferred to Al-Shifa hospital and then to Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital.
- On October 7, 2023, by Israeli shelling outside his home in Gaza City. Abu Sakran said he was wounded in the head and his brother was killed. Due to the high number of casualties at the time, he was treated on-site.
CPJ reviewed medical reports related to all three injuries.
Emad Dalloul
Dalloul, a 29-year-old correspondent for pro-Palestinian Islamic Jihad broadcaster Palestine Today TV, was one of three journalists injured in an Israeli drone strike on the courtyard of Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital around 10 a.m. in Gaza City.
“I was sitting with several journalists at a table,” Dalloul told CPJ. “I survived by a miracle, even though I was right next to the colleagues who were killed.”
The strike killed three journalists. Editor Suleiman Hajjaj and camera operator Ismail Baddah of Palestine Today TV, a channel affiliated with the Islamic Jihad militant group, died at the scene. Ahmed Qalaja, a camera operator with Qatari-funded Al-Araby TV, later died from his injuries on June 6.
Dalloul told CPJ he received emergency surgery and treatment for multiple shrapnel wounds across his body, including in both legs, his right shoulder, left hand, neck, and stomach. He remained in Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital for four days before being discharged due to overcrowding.
“One of the [shrapnel] fragments had lodged between my skin and intestines, something doctors said rarely happens,” Dalloul told CPJ.
Islam Badr
Badr, a 36-year-old Palestinian reporter with Qatari-funded Al-Araby TV, was one of three journalists injured in an Israeli drone strike on the courtyard of Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital around 10 a.m. in Gaza City. Badr is the older brother of Imam Badr, who was injured in the same strike.
“I was inside the hospital on Thursday morning when an Israeli drone targeted a table where journalists were seated in the courtyard with a single missile,” Bard told CPJ. “Several journalists, doctors, and patients were killed. I suffered bruises in my right leg due to the blast shockwave, as I was only a few meters from the strike.”
The strike killed three journalists. Editor Suleiman Hajjaj and camera operator Ismail Baddah of Palestine Today TV, a channel affiliated with the Islamic Jihad militant group, died at the scene. Ahmed Qalaja, a camera operator with Qatari-funded Al-Araby TV, later died from his injuries on June 6.
Badr told CPJ he’d been previously injured with shrapnel wounds to his right shoulder and hip during an Israeli airstrike on the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza. He’d been working for Hamas-owned Al-Aqsa TV and contributing to Al-Araby TV.
Imam Badr
Badr, a 20-year-old Palestinian freelance camera operator with Qatari-funded Al-Araby TV, was one of three journalists injured in an Israeli drone strike on the courtyard of Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital around 10 a.m. in Gaza City. Badr is the younger brother of Islam Badr, who was injured in the same strike.
The strike killed three journalists. Editor Suleiman Hajjaj and camera operator Ismail Baddah of Palestine Today TV, a channel affiliated with the Islamic Jihad militant group, died at the scene. Ahmed Qalaja, a camera operator with Qatari-funded Al-Araby TV, later died from his injuries on June 6.
Badr sustained multiple shrapnel injuries and was briefly admitted to Al-Shifa Medical Complex four days later, where he was diagnosed with an infected wound and internal inflammation, according to a medical report reviewed by CPJ.
May 30, 2025
Freelance photographer Yousef Al Zaanoun, who contributes to the London-based news outlet Middle East Eye, was injured by shrapnel from an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City.
Al Zaanoun, who is in his early 30s, told CPJ that he had spent the morning filming the displacement of residents from northern Gaza to Gaza City. Later that afternoon, he was at his sister’s home in the Old City, a densely populated area filled with residents and displaced people, when he learned that Israeli forces had threatened to bomb a nearby house.
“I went to document the scene,” he said. “An Israeli drone struck the house with a missile, and I moved more than 500 meters away. Minutes later, a different house was bombed by warplanes. The explosion’s force threw me over 15 meters, and I was hit by stones and shrapnel.”
He added that he attempted to run but could not make it far. Residents took him to Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in central Gaza City, where he was treated for bruises to his chest and abdomen, shrapnel in his left leg, and multiple cuts across his body.
May 29, 2025
Mahmoud Al-Louh, a 36-year-old correspondent with privately owned Al-Ghad TV and a father of three, was injured by Israeli tear gas and smoke canisters while covering aid distribution in central Gaza.
“All I had done was report on the arrival of citizens seeking food aid,” he told CPJ. “Minutes after my live report, Israeli soldiers targeted me with multiple canisters. One hit my right leg, causing burns. I also suffered from gas inhalation.”
He was treated at Al-Awda Hospital in Nuseirat refugee camp and discharged after an hour.
Mahmoud Al-Louh was previously injured on October 31, 2024, when he sustained bruises after being thrown into the air by the force of an Israeli airstrike on Nuseirat refugee camp.
On December 26, 2023, he also lost consciousness after inhaling smoke from weapons fired into the camp by Israeli forces and received intensive care treatment for acute respiratory issues. Mahmoud Al-Louh said he believed he had inhaled gas from white phosphorus, which ignites upon contact with oxygen.
CPJ was unable to independently verify his claim, and the Israel Defense Forces has rejected such allegations.
Witnesses and videos examined by human rights groups suggest that Israel has used white phosphorus during its military operations in Gaza. It is illegal to use white phosphorus against humans in a civilian setting.
May 27, 2025
Issam Rimawi
A group of Israeli settlers attacked and injured Rimawi, a 42-year-old Palestinian freelance photojournalist and contributor to several international media outlets, in an agricultural area east of Ramallah in the West Bank, he told CPJ.
Rimawi told CPJ he had been documenting Palestinian farmers harvesting wheat after Israeli settlers reportedly set fire to crops in the same region a few days before.
“As settlers descended from the outpost toward the farmers, I put on my press vest and helmet and moved more than 700 meters away to film the unfolding events,” Rimawi told CPJ. “The settlers launched three separate attacks on the villagers.”
After he was finished, Rimawi began walking back to his vehicle, which he deliberately parked two kilometers away to avoid it being targeted — something that often happens during such reporting, he told CPJ. En route, he was intercepted by six settlers who attacked him with sticks and stones.
“They aimed for my face. I raised my hands to protect myself, which led to them breaking my wrists,” Rimawi told CPJ. “I tried to show them I was a journalist, speaking in several languages, and used by cameras to shield myself. But they intensified the attack.”
Eyewitnesses later told Rimawi that the settlers continued assaulting him, even after he lost consciousness and, believing he was dead, stole one camera and destroyed the other before fleeing the scene.
Rimawi, a father of four, was treated for several injuries, including a concussion, deep facial wounds, two broken wrists, multiple broken fingers, and further trauma to his shoulders, neck, and skull, he told CPJ. As of June 4, he remained under medical supervision at the Palestine Medical Complex in Ramallah due to the risk of internal bleeding and head trauma.
May 25, 2025
Osama Sohaib Hosny Al Ashi
An Israeli airstrike injured Al Ashi, a 29-year-old Palestinian freelance camera operator and television producer and contributor to Qatari-funded Al-Araby TV, China’s state-run CCTV, and BBC Arabic, around 11 p.m., in Gaza City. The missile struck a residential building near where he was sheltering alongside his family.
“I was sitting with my wife and child in our room at my parents’ apartment…[when] a sudden and powerful blast shook the building. As I moved toward the balcony, shrapnel and debris — stones, shattered windows, and glass — burst into the room,” Ali Ashi told CPJ.
Ali Ashi told CPJ he was treated at Al-Shifa Medical Complex for shrapnel injuries to his right hand and bruises on his body. He was discharged after receiving stitches to his hand.
May 18, 2024
Abdel Karim Zouidi
Zouidi, a 23-year-old camera operator for the privately owned Al-Ghad TV, was injured in an Israeli drone strike in Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza.
“An Israeli drone fired a missile at a school housing thousands of displaced people in northern Gaza, killing 11 and wounding 22. I was among the injured, hit by shrapnel in my chest and shoulder, and the nerves in my arm were damaged,” Zouidi told CPJ.
“At that time, Israel was imposing a blockade on Jabalia camp and targeting any ambulance moving inside,” he added that he had to walk to Beit Lahia’s Kamal Adwan Hospital, where he was admitted for several days.
May 17, 2025
Mohammad Al-Khatib
Al-Khatib, a 43-year-old Palestinian camera operator and video editor for Qatari-based Al Jazeera Mubasher, was injured while returning from a work assignment, when an Israeli drone strike hit a group of civilians in the Al-Mawasi area, west of Khan Yunis.
“I was hit by shrapnel in my right hand, and several others were also injured,” said the displaced father of four who lives in a tent in Al-Mawasi.
Al-Khatib said he was taken to the nearby Kuwaiti Field Hospital, where he remained for about an hour. The next day, surgeons removed the shrapnel from his hand.
May 13, 2025
Amr Tabash
Tabash, a 27-year-old Palestinian freelance photojournalist who contributes to multiple outlets including Britain’s BBC, was one of four journalists injured by Israeli strikes on the European Gaza Hospital in southern Khan Yunis.
Tabash told CPJ he was conducting a video interview in the hospital courtyard when it was bombed.
“The force of the explosions hurled me several meters, causing bruises to my shoulder and other parts of my body. I was briefly admitted to Nasser Hospital and then discharged,” he told CPJ.
Abed Shaat
Shaat, who was previously injured on April 7, 2025, was another casualty of Israel’s strikes around the European Gaza Hospital.
The photographer told CPJ that he was accompanying ambulances and civil defense workers who were rescuing people hit by the bombings in the hospital courtyards and surrounding areas.
“We found numerous bodies of civilians and patients lying on the ground. Then, I accompanied civil defense personnel to a residential building near the hospital that had also been bombed by Israeli forces,” he told CPJ.
“While we were at the building, the area was bombed again. I was hit by shrapnel below my right eye,” he said, adding that he was taken to Nasser Hospital, several kilometers north, but only stayed for a few minutes “due to the overwhelming number of injuries.”
Mohammad Al-Amour
Al-Amour, a 23-year-old freelance photographer who contributes to the privately owned Quds News Network and regularly reports from the European Gaza Hospital, was the third journalist injured during the strikes.
“The Israeli airstrikes targeted the hospital’s outer courtyards with multiple raids. I was injured by shrapnel in my right hand. Due to the large number of casualties, I had to bandage my wounds myself,” he told CPJ.
Hussein Abu Khreis
Abu Khreis, a 27-year-old freelancer who contributes to the Saudi state-owned broadcaster Al-Hadath and Qatari-owned Al Jazeera, was the fourth journalist injured at the European Gaza Hospital.
Abu Khreis told CPJ that his right leg was wounded but he treated it himself as medical staff were overwhelmed with casualties from the strikes.
April 8, 2025
Salma Al Qaddoumi
Al Qaddoumi, a 34-year-old Palestinian freelance photojournalist, sustained minor injuries during an Israeli airstrike on April 8, 2025, in central Gaza’s Deir al-Balah city. Al Qaddoumi contributes to several international outlets, including Al Jazeera, the BBC, Reuters, AFP, and Turkish state-owned Anadolu Agency.
Al Qaddoumi told CPJ she was standing at a taxi station around 7:30 p.m. when flying debris — a rock and a piece of metal —from the nearby explosion struck her. She was treated at the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital for bruising to her left hand.
It is the second time Al Qaddoumi has been injured during the war. In the first incident, an Israeli tank fired toward a group of journalists on August 18, 2024, killing Ibrahim Muhareb.
April 7, 2025
Abed Shaat
Shaat, a freelance photographer who contributes to Agence France-Presse news agency, was injured in a targeted Israeli airstrike on a journalists’ tent in southern Gaza’s Khan Yunis, which also killed journalists Hilmy al-Faqaawi and Ahmed Mansour.
“I woke up to the sound of a huge explosion nearby,” Shaat told Al Jazeera, describing how he and his colleagues rushed out of their tent and he started filming the fire in the neighboring tent, which belonged to the pro-Palestinian Islamic Jihad broadcaster Palestine Today TV. Shaat stopped filming when he saw a journalist on fire inside the tent.
“I don’t even know how I summoned the courage to approach the flames and try to pull the burning person out. The fire was intense. There was a gas canister that had exploded, and another one that was burning. I tried to pull him out by his leg, but his pants tore off in my hand. I tried from another angle, but I couldn’t. The fire grew so strong, I fell back, I couldn’t bear it any longer,” said Shaat, who said he then lost consciousness and was taken to Nasser Hospital.
Shaat’s right hand was burned while trying to save Mansour, who died hours later.
Ahmed Al-Agha
Al-Agha, a BBC Arabic contributor, was injured in the same Khan Yunis airstrike. “Al-Agha suffered shrapnel wounds to his legs,” Al-Ghad TV camera operator Mazen al-Brim, who was in his channel’s tent 50 meters away when the strike hit and helped with rescue efforts, told CPJ on April 7.
Abdullah Al-Attar
Al-Attar, a freelance photographer for Turkish state-owned Anadolu Agency, was injured in the same Khan Yunis airstrike. “Al-Attar suffered shrapnel wounds to his stomach and minor injuries to his legs,” Al-Ghad TV’s Mazen al-Brim told CPJ.
Ihab Al-Bardini
Al-Bardini, a freelance camera operator, was injured in the same Khan Yunis airstrike. “Al-Bardini suffered shrapnel wounds to his head and is in critical condition,” Al-Ghad TV’s Mazen al-Brim told CPJ.
Mahmoud Awad
Awad, a camera operator for the Qatari-based broadcaster Al Jazeera, was injured in the same Khan Yunis airstrike. “Awad suffered shrapnel wounds to his head,” Al-Ghad TV’s Mazen al-Brim told CPJ.
Ali Eslayeh
Eslayeh, a photographer for West Bank-based site Alam24, was injured in the same Khan Yunis airstrike. “Eslayeh suffered minor injuries to his legs,” Al-Ghad TV’s Mazen al-Brim told CPJ.
Mohammed Fayeq
Fayeq, freelance photojournalist and drone operator, was injured in the same Khan Yunis airstrike. “Fayeq suffered shrapnel wounds to his right leg and left thigh,” Al-Ghad TV’s Mazen al-Brim told CPJ.
Majed Qudaih
Qudaih, a Radio Algerie correspondent, was injured in the same Khan Yunis airstrike. “Qudaih suffered shrapnel wounds to his back,” Al-Ghad TV’s Mazen al-Brim told CPJ.
March 18, 2025
Esraa AlAreer
AlAreer, a 33-year-old Palestinian freelance journalist, was injured at 2:30 a.m. on March 18, 2025, in an Israeli airstrike that targeted an apartment adjacent to her rented unit in Khan Yunis in southern Gaza. AlAreer told CPJ her home was completely destroyed, “after Israeli forces had already destroyed all the homes and apartments my family owned.”
AlAreer contributes to the BBC and local media organizations, including Filastiniyat, which advocates for women’s and youth’s participation in media, and Radio Alam, a station affiliated with Hebron University.
“We survived by a miracle and made it out from under the rubble,” said AlAreer, a mother of one who lost her husband during the war. AlAreer told CPJ she was treated at Nasser Hospital for torn ligaments and bruises to her left leg.
March 5, 2025
Yousef Shehadeh
Yousef Shehadeh, a 25-year-old Palestinian photographer who works with local pro-Fatah TV Awdah TV and collaborates with Jordan’s Roya TV, suffered a head injury when Israeli forces opened fire on a group of photographers in the town of Rafat, northwest of Jerusalem, he told CPJ. A video shows him just after the incident.
Shehadeh told CPJ that at around 4 p.m. he was sitting on a wall in the town with eight other photographers while clashes took place between local residents and Israeli forces. “The army fired live and rubber bullets directly at us,” he said. “While running away, I fell from a wall and injured my head.”
He added that he was taken to Ramallah Hospital, where his wound was closed with six stitches.
December 4, 2024
Mohammed Awad
Awad, a 25-year-old Palestinian freelance photographer, who works for Turkish state-owned Anadolu Agency, was shot while covering people fleeing the town of Beit Lahia in northern Gaza, according to the Beirut-based press freedom group SKeyes and the journalist, who spoke to CPJ.
“I work primarily as a nurse, but during the war I began documenting Israeli violations,” Awad told CPJ. “I went to the outskirts of the town on Wednesday to document the situation. While I was there filming scenes of displacement, at 2:15 p.m. I was hit by Israeli bullets. I don’t know if it was a sniper or a drone.”
“The bullet entered the tip of my neck and exited and entered and exited my right hand. The tendons in my fingers were severed. I was transferred to the Ahli-Baptist Hospital in Gaza City and I am still receiving treatment,” he said.
Awad shared with CPJ an image of his injury to his right hand and a medical report which said he needed to be evacuated to receive medical treatment outside Gaza.
January 3, 2025
Youssef Al-Saudi
Al-Saudi, a 23-year-old freelance videographer, was injured on January 3, 2025, when an Israeli drone struck a street in the Al-Shuja’iya neighborhood of eastern Gaza City where he was standing with a group of young men.
Al-Saudi told CPJ that at around 4 p.m., the drone hit the group and he sustained fractures in his right wrist caused by shrapnel and flying rocks. He was taken to Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza City for treatment.
December 2, 2024
Wael AbuZaina
AbuZaina, a 35-year-old Palestinian freelance journalist, told CPJ that he and his father were injured when Israeli airstrikes hit their home in Jabalia in northern Gaza.
AbduZaina said he worked for two local radio stations, Amwaj Sport and Namaa Radio, making short films for digital media, until they stopped broadcasting during the war.
“I was determined that my message should not stop, so I was filming videos about events in the northern Gaza Strip on a voluntary basis and publishing them on my social media accounts, and a number of them were published on the Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya satellite channels.”
AbuZaina’s pregnant wife, son, and several family members died in Israeli bombing in December 2023 and the remainder of the family fled to Al-Shati refugee camp, closer to Gaza City.
A year later, AbuZaina and his father returned home to Jabalia to collect some of their possessions.
“We arrived, and minutes later, specifically at 11:45 am on Monday morning, the Israeli warplanes bombed the house with a single missile, and its four floors collapsed on us. And the displaced people who were near the area took us out after an hour and a half,” he said.
“I miraculously survived and was transferred to the Ahli-Baptist Hospital in Gaza City. I sustained bruises and shrapnel wounds all over my body, burns to my face, and an injury to my left eye, which requires surgery outside the Gaza Strip. I am still in the hospital,” he said in February 2025.
AbuZaina shared with CPJ medical reports showing that he had surgery to remove shrapnel from his left eye 11 days after he was injured. As of March 2025, he had no sight in this eye.
AbuZaina said he also lost mobility in his right hand, which was broken and healed incorrectly.
November 28, 2024
Talal Al Arrouqi
Al Arrouqi, a 31-year-old Palestinian correspondent for the privately owned Qatari-based broadcaster Al Jazeera Mubasher, was injured by Israeli airstrikes on Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza while reporting on ambulances rescuing injured people, according to the Beirut-based press freedom group SKeyes and the journalist, who spoke to CPJ.
“At around 11:00 a.m. on Thursday, the ambulance service received a report that there were a number of residents trapped in an area north of the Nuseirat camp due to Israeli gunfire and shelling of their homes,” he said, adding that he headed out with the ambulances once the shelling subsided.
“When we arrived at the location, we were directly shot at by Israeli drones, as well as shells from Israeli tanks, several times. I took cover at the entrance to a house, and the shooting continued several times. We changed our hiding place every time, until the Israeli tanks fired a shell at us that fell around us,” he said.
“I flew 2 meters [2.2 yards] away from my hiding place because of its force. I was injured in my right hand and leg by shrapnel from the shell, as well as my head,” he said.
Al Arrouqi said several paramedics were injured but a wounded ambulance driver took him to the camp’s Al-Awda Hospital.
“I lost consciousness due to the injury, and I woke up in the hospital’s emergency department. I am still receiving treatment,” he said.
Al Arrouqi is one of six Al Jazeera journalists accused by the IDF of being members of militant groups. Al Jazeera and CPJ condemned the allegations as unfounded.
Al Arrouqi denied the allegations, adding, “The occupation fights anyone who carries a camera and covers the image of the bombing. They noticed the presence of journalists in the area, so they opened fire and shelled directly [on us].”
Al Arrouqi was also injured on October 31, 2024.
November 19, 2024
Hossam Shabat
Shabat, a 23-year-old Palestinian reporter and photographer for Qatari-based Al Jazeera Mubasher, was injured on the evening of November 19, 2024, when an Israeli airstrike hit a house in the Al-Basra neighborhood in southern Gaza, according to footage and reports by his outlet and Shabat, who spoke to CPJ.
Shabat told CPJ he was on his way to report about a house, which Israeli forces had previously bombed, with Mohamed Al-Masry, one of the channel’s camera operators. Shabat said both journalists were wearing “Press” vests and traveled in a car marked with press insignia.
“We drove our car behind the civil defense vehicle to the site of the bombing. When we arrived and entered the house, we were surprised that it was targeted again and bombed by Israeli warplanes,” Shabat told CPJ, adding that the strike killed one of the civil defense workers.
Shortly after the attack, Shabat posted details on social media, saying he was “deliberately targeted by Israeli forces.” Shabat told CPJ he believed the bombing could have been intentional and linked to accusations made by Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
On October 23, the IDF accused Shabat and five other Palestinian journalists working with Al Jazeera in Gaza of being members of the militant groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
CPJ has denounced and called for a halt to Israel’s practice of making unsubstantiated allegations as a means of justifying its killing and wider mistreatment of journalists and media workers.
Shabat and Al-Masry were treated for bruising on their backs at a hospital but were discharged due to the high number of injured people.
Mohamed Al-Masry
Al-Masry, a 20-year-old Palestinian camera operator for Qatari-based Al Jazeera Mubasher, was injured on the evening of November 19, 2024, when an Israeli airstrike hit a local house in the Al-Basra neighborhood in southern Gaza, according to footage and reports by his outlet and Hosaam Shabat, a reporter and photographer for the outlet, who spoke to CPJ.
Shabat told CPJ that the pair were on their way to report about a house that Israeli forces had previously bombed. Shabat said both journalists were wearing “Press” vests and traveled in a car marked with press insignia.
“We drove our car behind the civil defense vehicle to the site of the bombing. When we arrived and entered the house, we were surprised that it was targeted again and bombed by Israeli warplanes,” Shabat told CPJ, adding that the strike killed one of the civil defense workers.
Shortly after the attack, Shabat posted details on social media and said he was “deliberately targeted by Israeli forces.” Shabat told CPJ he believed the bombing could have been intentional and linked to accusations made by Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
On October 23, the IDF accused Shabat and five other Palestinian journalists working with Al Jazeera in Gaza of being members of the militant groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
CPJ has denounced and called for a halt to Israel’s practice of making unsubstantiated allegations as a means of justifying its killing and wider mistreatment of journalists and media workers.
Shabat and Al-Masry were treated for bruising on their backs at a hospital but were discharged due to the high number of injured people.
November 9, 2024
Samer Zaneen
Zaneen, a 34-year-old Palestinian freelance journalist, who works for the U.K.’s BBC radio and television, and Yemen Today’s Abdul Hadi Farhat were both injured by Israeli bombing of tents in the compound of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, according to the Beirut-based press freedom group SKeyes, the Palestinian press freedom group MADA, and the journalists, who spoke to CPJ.
Zaneen told CPJ that he was displaced at the beginning of the war from his home in the northern town of Beit Hanoun to Deir al-Balah.
“At around 1:45 pm on Saturday afternoon, Israeli aircraft suddenly targeted a tent for displaced people inside Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital… We [journalists] work in a tent next to it. We heard the sound of an explosion and fire,” Zaneen said.
“The fire entered our tent and devoured it. I was in the tent with my colleague Abdul Hadi Farhat and a number of journalists at the time,” he said.
“I was injured by the shelling, with some bruises and shrapnel in one of my feet. I was admitted to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital after the injury, received treatment and was discharged the same day,” Zaneen said.
Abdul Hadi Farhat
Farhat, a 28-year-old Palestinian correspondent for Yemen Today television channel, was injured along with the BBC’s Samer Zaneen by Israeli bombing of tents in the compound of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, according to the Beirut-based press freedom group SKeyes, the Palestinian press freedom group MADA, and the journalists, who spoke to CPJ.
Farhat said he moved to the hospital compound after fleeing his home in Jabalia camp in northern Gaza at the start of the war.
“There were no less than six journalists with us in the tent… when the shelling occurred. We found shrapnel flying at us as the tent was torn apart and the fire engulfed it, while the remains of the martyrs and wounded were scattered on our bodies,” Farhat told CPJ.
“We miraculously survived the shelling, and I suffered severe bruises on my feet as a result of the force of the missile and the falling remains and shrapnel,” he said, adding that he was treated at the hospital and discharged later that day.
November 5, 2024
Rabie Al-Munir
Al-Munir, a Palestinian camera operator for the Qatari-funded Al-Araby TV, was shot in the abdomen while reporting on an Israeli military operation in Qabatiya, south of the West Bank city of Jenin, according to media reports. Video footage showed Al-Munir being treated in Jenin’s Ibn Sina hospital.
Al-Araby TV reporter and witness Ameed Shehade told the local online outlet Al-Jarmaq News that the journalists were visible to the nearby Israeli soldiers who “fired directly at us.” Al-Munir was wearing his “Press” vest, which reduced the severity of the injury, and his condition was stable, he added.
Previously, on May 6, Shehade and Al-Munir were shot at by Israeli soldiers while covering an operation in the West Bank city of Tulkarem.
October 31, 2024
Talal Al Arrouqi
Al Arrouqi, a 31-year-old Palestinian correspondent for the privately owned Qatari-based broadcaster Al Jazeera Mubasher, was injured by an Israeli airstrike on Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, according to the Beirut-based press freedom group SKeyes and the journalist, who spoke to CPJ. The privately owned Al-Ghad TV correspondent Mahmoud Al Louh was injured in the same strike.
Al Arrouqi told CPJ that “at around 8:30 p.m. on Thursday, Israeli airstrikes targeted three homes in the area north of Nuseirat camp in central Gaza … I went with the ambulance to cover the incident with my colleague Mahmoud Al Louh.
“When we arrived at the site, the situation was difficult due to the bombing and the lack of electricity. Residents were pulling out the dead and wounded. Minutes later, Israeli airstrikes targeted another home next to the three targeted homes, which resulted in the injury of my right foot, as a result of flying stones and shattered glass, as well as bruises all over my body because the force of the explosion threw me to another place.”
Al Arrouqi said that after about 15 minutes of being trapped under the debris, he was transferred to al-Awda Hospital but soon left because it was overwhelmed by an influx of dozens of dead and injured patients. He did not seek further medical treatment.
Al Arrouqi is one of six Al Jazeera journalists accused by the IDF of being members of militant groups. Al Jazeera and CPJ condemned the allegations as unfounded.
Mahmoud Al Louh
Al Louh, a 34-year-old Palestinian correspondent with privately owned Al-Ghad TV was injured by an Israeli airstrike on Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, according to the Beirut-based press freedom group SKeyes and the journalist who spoke to CPJ. Talal Al Arrouqi, correspondent for the privately owned Qatari-based broadcaster Al Jazeera Mubasher, was injured in the same strike.
“I was injured as a result of the shelling that occurred while I was reporting, with bruises all over my body,” Al Louh told CPJ, adding that he sought treatment at Al-Awda Hospital but quickly left as it was full of casualties from the strike.
October 25, 2024
Hassan Hoteit
Hoteit, a Lebanese camera operator for the media production company Isol, told CPJ that his hip was broken when an Israeli airstrike hit a compound housing 18 journalists in south Lebanon’s Hasbaya area. Two other journalists were injured and three were killed in the attack, which Lebanon described as a “war crime.”
Hoteit told CPJ that he received surgery in the capital Beirut, was hospitalized for a week, and required bed rest for a month.
Zakaria Fadel
Fadel, a Lebanese assistant camera operator for the media production company Isol, told CPJ that he was injured, without providing further details, when an Israeli airstrike hit a compound housing 18 journalists in south Lebanon’s Hasbaya area. Two other journalists were injured and three were killed in the attack, which Lebanon described as a “war crime.”
Ali Mortada
Mortada, a Lebanese camera operator for the Qatari-owned broadcaster Al Jazeera, told CPJ that his shoulder was broken when an Israeli airstrike hit a compound housing 18 journalists in south Lebanon’s Hasbaya area. Two other journalists were injured and three were killed in the attack, which Lebanon described as a “war crime.”
October 14, 2024
Mohammed Abu Armana
Abu Armana, a 37-year-old Palestinian journalist, was injured in an Israeli airstrike on Al-Mawasi, west of Rafah city in southern Gaza, according to the Beirut-based press freedom group SKeyes and the journalist, who spoke to CPJ.
“A number of displaced citizens in the Mawasi area, west of Rafah city, called the ambulance and told them that there was a martyr [fatality] and injuries in the area. And based on that, they headed there and I was with them to document the event,” Abu Armana told CPJ.
“When we arrived at the scene, we were surprised by a new Israeli target [strike] next to us, with a missile from an Israeli drone and four shells from a tank. And I sustained a minor injury to my left hand, as did three paramedics,” he said.
Safenaz Al-Louh
Al-Louh, a 33-year-old Palestinian journalist who freelances with multiple outlets including the Gaza-based Al-Elamya News and the Qatari-owned broadcaster Al Jazeera Mubasher, was injured when Israeli airstrikes hit tents for displaced people in the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza. The airstrike caused a huge fire, killing at least four people.
“At around 2 a.m., we were surprised by Israeli warplanes bombing the tents of displaced people inside the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital,” Al-Louh told CPJ. “As a result of the presence of cooking gas cylinders used by the displaced inside their tents, the bombing led to their explosion and the flames engulfed more than 30 tents.”
“I suffered burns to my left hand and foot while I was filming the event as the gas cylinders exploded,” said Al-Louh, who received treatment at the hospital.
Despite her injury, Al-Louhh has continued to report from Gaza with her left hand in a bandage.
She has given numerous interviews from Gaza during the war, including for Egyptian public broadcaster ETC TV and Ramallah-based Basma Radio.
Islam Ahmed
Ahmed, a 33-year-old freelance photographer and father of two who collaborates with Turkish state-owned broadcaster TRT and Anadolu Agency, Reuters news agency, and Qatari-owned Al Jazeera, was injured during an Israeli drone strike in Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza.“At around 10:00 a.m., an Israeli quadcopter drone dropped a bomb directly on him in Jabalia camp. He was injured in his left leg and taken to central Gaza’s Al-Awda Hospital, where he remained for a full day,” his brother Mohammed told CPJ.
October 9, 2024
Tamer Lubbad
Lubbad, a 37-year-old Palestinian correspondent for the Hamas-owned Al-Aqsa TV, was injured when an Israeli drone strike landed near him and his colleague Mohammed Al-Tanani as they were covering an Israeli siege on Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza. Camera operator Al-Tanani was killed.
Both men were wearing “Press” vests and helmets and were clearly identifiable as journalists, according to video footage and Lubbad, who spoke to CPJ.
“We went to monitor and cover the situation after we learned that the Israeli occupation forces are besieging the Jabalia camp and its residents,” Lubbad told CPJ via messaging app. “We reached the closest area to the camp — and the area was not dangerous — where we did a report. After finishing it and as we were leaving the area at about 4:30 p.m., a drone fired missiles that hit Mohammed directly, which immediately killed him.”
“The missile cut through his lower half and I was hit by shrapnel behind my left shoulder and shrapnel next to my colon,” he said, adding that it took two hours for the ambulance to arrive because of “repeated and deliberate” gunfire from Israeli forces.
“I received first aid in the ambulance. And at the General Service Hospital in Gaza City, an operation was performed to extract the shrapnel and I am staying there to complete the treatment,” he said.
Fadi Al Wahidi
Al Wahidi, a Palestinian camera operator for the Qatari-owned broadcaster Al Jazeera was critically injured in the neck by a bullet fired from an Israeli reconnaissance aircraft while Al Wahidi and correspondent Anas Al-Sharif were covering an Israeli siege on northern Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp. Both men were wearing “Press” vests and clearly identifiable as journalists.
“I was with my colleague, cameraman Fadi al-Wahidi, at the end of al-Jalaa Street, north of Gaza City, where we were in an area completely far from the areas of operations of the Israeli occupation forces. We had with us the external live broadcast vehicle to transmit the news,” Al-Sharif told CPJ via phone from Gaza City.
“The place was originally full of residents. Suddenly, while we were filming the events and after we had also finished a live segment on the channel, an Israeli reconnaissance drone fired at us.”
“After the shooting, we tried to move to another safer place and hide from any danger, but a bullet from the plane hit our colleague Fadi Al-Wahidi in the neck, which led to his complete paralysis. He is now lying in the Al-Ahli Hospital in a very critical condition, and in urgent need of travel for treatment outside the Gaza Strip to receive medical care.”
“This incident marks yet another grave violation against journalists in Gaza, where Israeli forces have been increasingly hostile toward media workers,” Al Jazeera said. “The deliberate targeting of journalists is a flagrant violation of international laws protecting the press and humanitarian workers in war zones.”
October 7, 2024
Ali Al-Attar
Al-Attar, a 27-year-old Palestinian journalist and Al Jazeera Arabic camera operator, was severely injured when an Israeli airstrike hit a tent for displaced people in front of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza, according to Al Jazeera and Al-Attar’s cousin Ahmed Maqat, who spoke to CPJ.
Al Jazeera posted a video showing Al-Attar being helped up from his bed and given first aid after some of the shrapnel from the 3 a.m. strike landed on a tent for Al Jazeera reporters.
“Ali was immediately admitted to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, and then transferred to the intensive care unit at the Gaza European Hospital south of Khan Yunis. He did not undergo any surgery because he is suffering from internal bleeding and he is still in a semi-coma,” Maqat told CPJ.
Al Jazeera said on Wednesday that pieces of shrapnel pierced Al-Attar’s skull, causing bleeding that resulted in a coma, and that his condition was deteriorating. Medics in Gaza were unable to treat him due to the lack of medical resources amid the ongoing war.
Al-Attar’s colleagues have called on the international community to facilitate his evacuation in order to save his life.
October 1, 2024
Ahmed Al-Zard
Al-Zard, a 33-year-old Palestinian camera operator and producer for the local Al-Kofiya TV, was injured and four family members were killed when Israeli aircraft bombed the house where they were staying in the village of Ma’an, east of Khan Yunis, the journalist told CPJ.
“At around 9 p.m., we began hearing very intense and rapid sounds of bombing. Minutes later, the house was bombed over our heads by Israeli warplanes without any warning. It turned out that the occupation had stormed the area and besieged it,” Al-Zard told CPJ.
“We were 13 people in the house. I was immediately injured, along with eight others. My brother, my uncle, his wife, and their daughter were martyred. We remained trapped until the Israeli occupation withdrew at 4:30 a.m.,” he added.
“I was hit by shrapnel all over my body, in my back, spleen, stomach, knees, hands, and head. I am currently suffering from internal bleeding. I am being treated at the European Gaza Hospital, southeast of Khan Yunis, with ongoing tests to determine what surgeries I need,” he said.
Ahmed said he fled his home in Gaza City at the beginning of the war and reported from southern Gaza. His family joined him in July but his father, who had cancer, died on the journey.
September 12, 2024
Mahmoud Issa Abu Shirby
Shirby, a 33-year-old Palestinian journalist for the Qatari-funded broadcaster Al-Araby TV and Palestine Today, was severely injured when Israeli airstrikes bombed his aunt’s house in Gaza City’s Zeitoun neighborhood, according to the Beirut-based press freedom group SKeyes and the journalist, who spoke to CPJ.
“All of my family were forced to flee to areas in the southern Gaza Strip after Israeli threats at the beginning of the war. Only my cousin and I remained in Gaza City,” he told CPJ.
“On Thursday, Israeli warplanes targeted it with a direct missile, killing my aunt’s husband, his brother, and his brother’s children. I was also injured. I saw myself burning in the rubble and shrapnel from the missile eating away at my body.”
“I was critically injured by the bombing. My left foot was amputated, and I suffer from wounds, abrasions, and laceration in my right foot … in addition to severe burns on my chest, abdomen, and hands. I lost all sight in my left eye and 60% in my right eye,” he said.
Shirby told CPJ in February 2025 that he was admitted to Gaza City’s Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital where he was still receiving treatment, more than four months later. The journalist said it was the twelfth time that he had been injured during the war but the first time that the seriousness of his injuries had stopped him from working.
September 3, 2024
Ahmed Al-Nakhala
Al-Nakhala, a Palestinian camera operator for the local Al-Kofiya TV, was injured by an Israeli airstrike while he was preparing to shoot a story at Nama College in Gaza City’s northern Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, where hundreds of displaced people were sheltering.
“The bombing was a surprise and the Israeli warplanes fired a large number of missiles. So I suffered bruises and shrapnel [embedded] in my left hand and a fracture in my left foot,” he told CPJ, adding that his filming equipment was destroyed, including his cell phone and SIM cards.
He was treated at Sheikh Radwan neighborhood clinic and then admitted to Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza City until October 15. In February 2025, he was evacuated to receive treatment in Egypt.
Mohammad Mansour and Ayman al-Nubani
Mohammad Mansour, a Palestinian photographer with the Palestinian Authority’s official news agency WAFA, was shot in the left arm while covering an Israeli military operation in the Palestinian village of Kafr Dan, about 8 kilometers (5 miles) northwest of the West Bank city of Jenin. Video footage of the incident shows that Mansour was driving a car marked “Press” and wearing a protective vest marked “Press.”
Ayman Al-Nubani, a WAFA photographer, was hit by shrapnel in his left arm in the same incident. He told the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate that Israeli forces used live gunfire against seven journalists in “Press” vests riding in three “Press” cars.
“We narrowly escaped death. Had we not sped up a little, they would have killed us. It was a direct assassination attempt,” he was quoted as saying, adding that the Israeli soldiers “started shooting at us directly.”
Al-Nubani said that Israeli forces obstructed the ambulances that were taking the injured to Jenin’s Ibn Sina Hospital and forces surrounding the hospital questioned them.
August 26, 2024
Mohammed Al-Za’anin
Al-Za’anin, a 40-year-old Palestinian journalist who works as a camera operator for the Turkish-owned TRT Arabic broadcaster, was injured by shrapnel in his left eye after an Israeli missile struck a house next to TRT’s temporary office in Khan Yunis, in southern Gaza, according to multiple media reports and the journalist, who spoke to CPJ. His assistant, Mohammed Karajah, was also injured.
The office is in a warehouse facing Nasser Hospital.
Al-Za’anin has been a camera operator and a photographer for 19 years. He was on assignment in southern Gaza in the early days of the war and remained there as a displaced person.
“We were near Nasser Hospital when an Israeli warplane struck near us,” Al-Za’nin told CPJ. “I was injured by shrapnel that penetrated my left eye and has not yet come out.”
Al-Za’anin said that he walked after his injury to Nasser Hospital because of its proximity to the office, and that he was still being treated there after undergoing surgery. He told CPJ that he needs an operation outside Gaza to extract the shrapnel due to the lack of capacity in the strip.
The Turkish foreign ministry posted on X about the incident, saying “the attacks on TRT members in Gaza are an Israeli effort to cover up the truth, with its hands stained with blood. We stand with all members of the press who are working with all their might to make Israel’s cruelty known to the world. We extend our best wishes to the TRT members and the TRT family who were injured in the latest attack.”
Mohammed Karajah
Karajah, a 32-year-old Palestinian assistant photographer for the Turkish-owned TRT Arabic broadcaster was injured in the same Israeli airstrike on a house near TRT’s temporary office.
“My assistant, Mohammed Karajah, was injured by shrapnel in his left leg. The doctors were able to remove it and he left the hospital,” his colleague Al-Za’nin told CPJ.
Karajah was displaced from Bureij Palestinian refugee camp, east of central Gaza, to the neighboring city of Deir al-Balah.
August 18, 2024
Salma Al Qaddoumi
Al Qaddoumi, a freelance Palestinian journalist, who works with multiple outlets including the Turkish state-owned Anadolu Agency, Al Jazeera, and AFP news agency, was injured when an Israeli tank fired towards a group of journalists reporting in the Hamad city area, northwest of Khan Yunis in southern Gaza, according to news reports. Freelance journalist Ibrahim Muhareb was also killed in the incident.
The Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate posted a description by journalist Rasha Ahmed of the incident. Ahmed said she was one of five journalists on assignment together when a military tank suddenly advanced from the Al-Hawz area in the northwestern part of Hamad city and opened heavy fire on them. Some reporters lay on the ground for more than five minutes due to the intense gunfire, until they were “miraculously” able to get out. Al-Qaddoumi also tried to run, unaware that her back was injured, but fell to the ground. Ahmed and another journalist Saeed Al-Lulu rescued Al-Qaddoumi and found a cart and then a car to transport her to hospital, the PJS report said.
On August 19, Al-Qaddoumi told CPJ by phone that the group of journalists reported from “a place far from the presence of tanks” but “a number of tanks suddenly appeared in the area after filming had ended.”
“The tanks fired shells and bullets at us, and Ibrahim was hit directly. He asked me to help him leave the place, and I went with one of the displaced people in the area to rescue him, but the tanks fired more shells and bullets at us. At that moment, I was hit in the back by two (pieces of) shrapnel, either from the shells or the bullets. I then lost consciousness and found myself in the hospital,” she told CPJ.
Sami Barhoom
Barhoom, a Palestinian correspondent for the Turkish state-owned broadcaster TRT Arabic was injured by shrapnel from Israeli sniper bullets when he and a colleague were reporting in southern Gaza, according to news reports and the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate.
“I was on a field mission to prepare a report with camera operator Hazem al-Baz about the cemeteries being full and the lack of graves to accommodate the martyrs in the Austrian neighborhood northwest of Khan Yunis,” Barhoom told CPJ by phone. “We finished and headed to another mission near Hamad city, west of Khan Yunis, at exactly 2:00 p.m.”
“Although the car was marked “Press” and “TV” and we were (both) wearing a “Press” jacket and helmet, we were surprised by direct fire on our car … The first shot hit the right door of the car, so I knew it was a targeted attack because the gunfire was hitting the sand very heavily,” he said, referring to the desert sand they were driving over.
“We tried to get out of the car to hide, but as soon as we tried to get out of it, the bullets hit the front window of the car at the level of our heads, and it was clear that the target was to kill,” he said.
Musa, a 20-year-old Palestinian volunteer reporter for the local social media-based Watan Media Agency, was injured by Israeli airstrikes in southern Gaza’s Khan Yunis, according to the Beirut-based press freedom group SKeyes and the journalist, who spoke to CPJ.
Barhoom said the pair managed to get out of the car, which was hit by five bullets, and took cover in a nearby shelter for an hour until it was safe to leave. In April, Barhoom was one of four journalists injured by Israeli shelling while reporting in Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza. His TRT Arabic colleague Sami Shehadeh lost a leg in the incident.
August 15, 2024
Wadeaa Abu Al-Saud
Abu Al-Saud, a 32-year-old Palestinian correspondent for Houthi-controlled Yemen TV, told CPJ that he was injured in an Israeli airstrike on a civilian target in Gaza City’s Al-Rimal neighborhood, according to the Beirut-based press freedom group SKeyes and the journalist, who spoke to CPJ.
“I went to cover an Israeli bombing of a residential building in the northern Al-Rimal neighborhood, west of Gaza City. While I was there, the Israeli Air Force bombed,” he told CPJ, adding that it was about the fifth time that he had been bombed, including twice while he was at home.
“I was slightly injured by stones that were thrown at us as a result of the bombing. Shrapnel also penetrated my ‘Press’ vest without causing any physical harm. I was transferred to the Ahli-Baptist Hospital in central Gaza City, but I only stayed there for an hour,” he said.
August 9, 2024
Mohammed Abu Musa
“A house in the village of Ma’in in Khan Yunis was targeted by Israeli airstrikes, so I went to cover [it],” he said. “The targeting was repeated again, which resulted in me being injured by shrapnel in my right foot.”
July 27, 2024
Youssef al-Firani
Musa said he was admitted to Nasser Hospital for treatment for nine days.
Al-Firani, a 23-year-old correspondent and director of the local social media-based outlets Watan Media Agency and Al-Quds News Network, was injured by Israeli airstrikes on a school housing displaced people in central Gaza’s Deir al-Balah city, according to the Beirut-based press freedom group SKeyes and the journalist, who spoke to CPJ.
“The Israeli air force bombed the school gate with four missiles. The intensity of the bombing caused me to fly a distance from where I was standing. I was injured in the head, and I suffered several shrapnel wounds and bruises all over my body, including my back, pelvis, and left knee,” al-Firani told CPJ, adding that he was treated at the city’s Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital and discharged later that day.
July 22, 2024
Mohammed Al Zanin
Al Zanin, a 44-year-old camera operator for the local Palestine Media Production company, was injured by Israeli airstrikes while covering the displacement of people near the southern city of Khan Yunis, according to the Beirut-based press freedom group SKeyes and the journalist, who spoke to CPJ.
“I went to cover areas east of Khan Yunis when the Israeli occupation asked its residents to evacuate. At 10:30 a.m., the Israeli Air Force bombed one of the residents’ homes near the Bani Suhaila roundabout while I was covering the displacement operations, which resulted in injury to both my feet,” said Al Zanin, who was himself displaced from northern Gaza’s Beit Hanoun earlier in the war.
“The injury was shrapnel in the right and left feet. I was transferred to Nasser Medical Complex, west of the city, where I received treatment. After 28 days, I was treated again and underwent a cleaning operation on my right foot to remove shrapnel. I am still taking painkillers and antibiotics,” he told CPJ on October 15, 2024.
July 20, 2024
Mahmoud Akki
Akki, a 34-year-old Palestinian camera operator for the Qatari-based broadcaster Al Jazeera Mubasher, sustained shrapnel injuries in his right arm during an Israeli strike on central Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp, according to the Beirut-based press freedom group SKeyes and the journalist, who spoke to CPJ.
“After I learned that the Israeli occupation threatened to bomb one of the Ain Jalut Towers in the Nuseirat camp in central Gaza on Saturday, I went to the place to cover the shooting. I arrived and set up the camera away from the tower. I had just finished and retreated a little when the Israeli warplanes suddenly bombed the tower,” he told CPJ.
“The shrapnel penetrated my hand and lodged in it, damaging the ligaments and nerves. I am still suffering from it and I am experiencing severe pain,” he told CPJ on October 9, 2024.
Akki said he sought treatment at the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the city of Deir al-Balah.
“I stayed there for only one day because there was no treatment available and there were not enough beds. In addition, I was supposed to receive physical therapy and painkillers, but I did not receive any because they were not available in the Strip as a result of the war,” he said.
July 13, 2024
Alshrafi, a 23-year-old Palestinian freelance photographer who works for the Associated Press, was injured by shrapnel from an Israeli drone strike in the Al-Mawasi area west of Khan Yunis.
Alshrafi told CPJ that he had gone with other journalists to cover Israeli airstrikes in the area when a drone launched another attack, hitting emergency rescue workers.
“I was hit by shrapnel in my left hand, and one of my cameras was damaged,” he said.
He added that he tried to continue working despite the bleeding, covering the wound temporarily before heading to Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis. Due to the large number of casualties, he later sought treatment at the Jordanian Field Hospital, where he received follow-up care over the course of a month.
Firas Abu Sharkh
Sharkh, a 25-year-old Palestinian freelance photographer and camera operator for the Qatari-based broadcaster Al Jazeera, the Saudi news channel Al Arabiya, Turkish state-owned Anadolu Agency, and Reuters news agency, told CPJ that he was injured by Israeli airstrikes on the Al Mawasi area west of Khan Yunis, which killed 90 people.
“The Israeli warplanes launched a major bombing campaign on Saturday in the Al Mawasi area of Khan Yunis, targeting the tents of displaced people there. I went to cover the incident, and because the occupation had set up a fire belt [intensive airstrikes], I was injured by several pieces of shrapnel in my left hand.”
He added: “I was transferred to the Kuwait Specialized Field Hospital in the Mawasi area for treatment. I stayed there for a whole month and I am still receiving treatment,” he said on October 15, 2024.
CPJ reviewed medical reports and photos showing Abu Sharkh’s legs were wounded and his left hand was broken and the nerves damaged. As of late 2024, the journalist was still undergoing treatment and could not walk properly.
June 29, 2024
Soliman Hijjy
Hijjy, a Palestinian freelance photographer who contributes to The New York Times, was injured by shrapnel from Israeli tanks in an area that had been declared a safe zone near the southern city of Rafah, according to the Beirut-based press freedom group SKeyes and the journalist, who spoke to CPJ.
“The Israeli occupation tanks retreated from the areas they had penetrated, northwest of Rafah. We went to cover the situation there, but we were surprised by a new incursion by tanks, starting from an area west of Rafah and reaching an area southwest of Khan Yunis,” Al-Kuaifi told CPJ.
“I was taking all professional safety precautions and wearing a helmet and shield for journalists. But the Israeli tanks fired shells at me, so I was injured in my head, both hands, and left leg. I remained trapped in the area for three hours, and then I was able to get out,” Hijjy said, adding that his injuries were treated at the Kuwaiti hospital.
June 5, 2024
Mohammed Fayq
Fayq, a 28-year-old Palestinian photographer and drone specialist, who freelances for Reuters and Agence France-Presse news agencies, Turkish state-owned Anadolu Agency, the Qatari-based broadcaster Al Jazeera, and Jordan’s Roya TV, was injured in an Israeli airstrike on central Gaza, according to the Beirut-based press freedom group SKeyes and the journalist, who spoke to CPJ.
“I accompanied ambulances and civil defense vehicles to the site of an Israeli attack on several homes in an area between the Bureij and Maghazi refugee camps in central Gaza. When we arrived at the site, the Israeli air force bombed it again,” he told CPJ.
“I was injured by a large amount of shrapnel in my hands, right shoulder, feet, and other parts of my body, along with a number of paramedics, in the same attack. We were transferred to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, about 20 minutes after the injury. I had to walk a long distance to reach the ambulances, because the ambulances that were present at the site had withdrawn due to the bombing,” he said.
“I underwent surgery about two weeks later to remove shrapnel from my hand, and to this moment I am still receiving treatment, as there is still shrapnel in my right hand and shoulder and I need very delicate operations outside the Gaza Strip,” Fayq told CPJ in February 2025.
May 28, 2024
Mahmoud Bassam Al Jamal
Al Jamal, a 30-year-old Palestinian freelance photographer, who works for the Qatari-based broadcaster Al Jazeera Mubasher and Turkish state-owned Anadolu Agency, was shot in southern Gaza’s Rafah city, according to the Beirut-based press freedom group SKeyes and the journalist, who spoke to CPJ.
“I was shot while covering the Israeli occupation forces’ invasion of the western areas of Rafah on Tuesday, while I was leaving the Emirati Crescent Hospital after it was put out of service. I was shot in the left hand by an Israeli drone, which caused some problems in my tendons,” Al Jamal told CPJ.
He continued: “I was transferred to the American hospital in Khan Yunis, and then I was transferred to the Red Cross Hospital in the Al-Mawasi area, west of Rafah, where I stayed for only one day. After that, my treatment continued for a month and a half, and I am still waiting to undergo surgery, but there are currently no possibilities to perform it.”
Al Jamal’s brother, Mohammed Bassam Al Jamal, who was also a journalist, was killed on April 25, 2024.
May 24, 2024
Mahmoud Abu Salama
Abu Salama, a 35-year-old Palestinian correspondent for the privately owned Al-Ghad TV, was injured on May 15 and 24, 2024, by Israeli airstrikes on the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, according to the Beirut-based press freedom group SKeyes and the journalist, who spoke to CPJ.
Abu Salama told CPJ: “On both occasions, on Wednesday and Friday, I was targeted by Israeli fire belts [intensive airstrikes] in the Jabalia camp in the northern Gaza Strip. I was heading directly to cover the bombing, and we were surprised by new, intense bombing and fire belts. Because of the pressure of the bombing and some stones falling on me, I was bleeding from several areas of my body and was transferred to the Indonesian hospital because it was close to the target, and I was discharged the same day.”
May 21, 2024
Amro Manasrah
Manasrah, a freelance photographer working with the local Palestine Post outlet and the regional Hezbollah-affiliated Al-Mayadeen broadcaster, was hit in the back by an Israeli bullet that ricocheted off the wall next to him as he and other journalists were reporting on an Israeli operation in the West Bank city of Jenin, according to Palestine Post, Al Jazeera, and the journalist, who spoke to CPJ.
Manasrah, who was wearing a press vest, told CPJ via phone call after he was hospitalized, that the bullet hit a wall next to him and ricocheted, hitting him in the back. Manasrah said that only journalists were in the area and were visible to IDF soldiers. Manasrah was later released from the hospital on the same day.
Journalist Obada Tahayneh, a freelance reporter for Qatari-owned Al Jazeera Mubasher who was at the scene, told CPJ over the phone that “there were approximately 20 journalists present at the scene, only 150 meters away from IDF soldiers. Seven of us moved towards the nearby hospital, when we heard shots fired. We ran and hid next to a wall, and shortly after I saw Manasrah on the ground.” Tahayneh added that he is still “in shock” from being so close to the shooting and witnessing Manasrah’s injury.
April 22, 2024
Rami AlShrafi
The general manager of Gaza City-based Zaman FM, AlShrafi, 45, and several family members were injured when an Israeli airstrike hit the house next to them in central Gaza’s Deir al-Balah, according to the Beirut-based press freedom group SKeyes and the journalist, who spoke to CPJ.
AlShrafi told CPJ that the family moved to the Al-Brouk area of Deir al-Balah after their home in northern Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp was destroyed on October 7, 2023.
“We were surprised, without warning, in the early hours of Monday morning, by the Israeli air force targeting the house adjacent to the house we had been displaced to,” he said.
“Thank God, we miraculously survived. I, my son, my father, my two nephews, and my sister were slightly injured all over our bodies as a result of shrapnel and flying window glass.”
He said they were treated at Al-Awda Hospital in Al-Nuseirat camp and discharged later that day.
Like other local radio stations, Zaman FM stopped broadcasting during the war but continued to publish news via its website and social media.
April 12, 2024
Sami Shehadeh, a camera operator for Turkish state broadcaster TRT Arabic, was injured by an Israeli shell while reporting in central Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp, which led to the amputation of his right leg.
Sami Barhoom, TRT Arabic reporter, was injured in the same attack on Nuseirat camp.
Ahmad Harb, who was reporting for Al Arabiya TV, was injured in the same attack on Nuseirat camp.
CNN stringer Mohammad Al-Sawalhi was struck by shrapnel, injuring his right hand and bruising his left leg, in the same attack on Nuseirat camp.
March 31, 2024
Freelance photojournalist Ali Hamad, was hit in the back by missile shrapnel in an attack on Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza’s Deir al-Balah.
Freelance photojournalist Saeed Jars, was hit in the knee by shrapnel in the same hospital attack.
Freelance photojournalist Naaman Shteiwi sustained minor facial injuries in the same hospital attack.
Zain Media camera operator Mohammed Abu Dahrouj was seriously injured in the leg in the same hospital attack.
Freelance photojournalist Nafez Abu Labda sustained a leg injury in the same hospital attack.
Al-Aqsa photographer Ibrahim Labad sustained leg injuries in the same hospital attack.
Al Jazeera photographer Hazem Mazeed, who sustained leg injuries in the same hospital attack.
Freelance photojournalist Magdi Qaraqea was also injured in the same hospital attack.
March 26, 2024
Ali Abu Harbid
Abu Harbid, a 35-year-old Palestinian freelance photographer and camera operator, who works for the Qatari-based broadcaster Al Jazeera, was injured in an Israeli airstrike next to a school where he had been staying along with other displaced people in northern Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp, according to the Beirut-based press freedom group SKeyes and the journalist, who spoke to CPJ.
“This resulted in me sustaining a large number of shrapnel wounds to my body, and I was subsequently transferred to a hospital,” Abu Harbid told CPJ.
He was also injured on October 19, 2024, while covering the bombing of a house in northern Gaza’s Jabalia Al-Nazla area for the Palestinian Red Crescent Society, which he volunteers for.
“We were surprised by new bombing of the place, and I was injured by shrapnel in my thigh,” he said, adding that he was admitted to Gaza City’s Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital for two days.
March 2, 2024
Mahmoud Haniyeh
Haniyeh, a 35-year-old Palestinian reporter for the pro-Hamas Al-Risala newspaper, was injured, along with his colleague Khaled Banat, when a missile from an Israeli warplane hit a journalists’ tent opposite the Emirati hospital, west of Rafah, according to the Beirut-based press freedom group SKeyes and the journalists, who spoke to CPJ.
“We were working in the tent, which resulted in shrapnel hitting me in the back of my body. I received treatment at the American field hospital,” Haniyeh told CPJ.
Khaled Banat
Banat, a 59-year-old Palestinian editor for the pro-Hamas Al-Risala newspaper, was injured, along his colleague Mahmoud Haniyeh, when a missile from an Israeli warplane hit a journalists’ tent opposite the Emirati hospital, west of Rafah, according to the Beirut-based press freedom group SKeyes and the journalists, who spoke to CPJ.
“I was injured in the same bombing and targeting of the journalists’ tent in front of the Emirati hospital, in my right hand, an entry and exit injury,” Khaled Banat told CPJ, adding that he was treated in the American hospital and received three weeks’ additional treatment.
February 24, 2024
Abdallah El Hajj, a 34-year-old Palestinian photographer and filmmaker for the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), was seriously injured in an Israeli drone attack while he was documenting destruction in Al-Shati refugee camp in western Gaza City, according to the journalist.
El Hajj, a father of three, told CPJ that at around noon, while filming damaged sites in the northern part of the camp, an Israeli drone strike severed both his legs above the knee on impact, and caused fractures and nerve damage to his left hand, injury to his thumb, severe thigh tears, and buttock injuries. He was taken to Al-Shifa Hospital, where he remained in a coma for three days. His legs were amputated. El Hajj said Israeli forces had bombed his house the day before the attack.
Weeks later, he said Israeli forces stormed Al-Shifa Hospital, imposed a siege, used patients as human shields, and denied access to food, water, and medical care. El Hajj said his supervising doctor, Ahmad Al-Muqadama, was among those killed. After 15 days under siege, during which time his wounds became infected, El Hajj was transferred to Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital for a week, then to the U.K. Field Hospital in Khan Yunis , followed by the U.S. Field Hospital in Rafah. He later traveled to Hamad Hospital in Qatar for further treatment.
February 13, 2024
Al Jazeera Arabic reporter Ismail Abu Omar and freelance camera operator and photojournalist Ahmed Matar were traveling by motorcycle in Miraj, north of Rafah, on February 13, 2024, while reporting on displaced Palestinians in the area, when an Israeli drone strike hit them. Both journalists were wearing protective vests clearly marked “Press” and carrying their equipment, Al Jazeera reported.
Al Jazeera reported that the journalists received emergency surgery at the European Hospital in Rafah. Abu Omar’s right foot and some fingers on his right hand were amputated, his left leg was severely injured, and pieces of shrapnel remained in his head and chest, the channel said. A photograph shared with CPJ via messaging app showed Matar in the hospital with injuries to his face.
Abu Omar was later evacuated to Qatar where he is receiving treatment; Matar told CPJ he remains in Gaza.
A video posted by Al Jazeera Arabic, reviewed by CPJ, appeared to show Abu Omar soon after the attack, wearing a blue press vest and lying on the ground with severe leg injuries as people rushed to provide aid. CPJ also reviewed photographs of the damaged motorcycle that were shared by the Palestinian newspaper Al-Hadath in a messaging app.
Al Jazeera said in a statement the reporters were deliberately targeted, describing the incident as “a full-fledged crime added to Israel’s crimes against journalists, and a new part in the series of the deliberate targeting of Al Jazeera’s journalists and correspondents in Palestine.”
In an online response to CPJ’s February 2025 report about journalist killings, the IDF said, without citing evidence, that “Abu Omar…is a deputy company commander in Hamas’ Eastern Battalion of Khan Yunis. Abu Omar even filmed himself in Kibbutz Nir Oz during the October 7th massacre and published it on social media platforms.”
Al Jazeera condemned these accusations in a statement, adding that it “recalls Israel’s long record of lies and fabrication of evidence through which it seeks to hide its heinous crimes.”
Al Jazeera Arabic reporter Ismail Abu Omar and freelance camera operator and photojournalist Ahmed Matar were traveling by motorcycle in Miraj, north of Rafah, on February 13, 2024, while reporting on displaced Palestinians in the area, when an Israeli drone strike hit them. Both journalists were wearing protective vests clearly marked “Press” and carrying their equipment, Al Jazeera reported.
Al Jazeera reported that the journalists received emergency surgery at the European Hospital in Rafah. Abu Omar’s right foot and some fingers on his right hand were amputated, his left leg was severely injured, and pieces of shrapnel remained in his head and chest, the channel said. A photograph shared with CPJ via messaging app showed Matar in the hospital with injuries to his face.
Abu Omar was later evacuated to Qatar where he is receiving treatment; Matar told CPJ he remains in Gaza.
A video posted by Al Jazeera Arabic, reviewed by CPJ, appeared to show Abu Omar soon after the attack, wearing a blue press vest and lying on the ground with severe leg injuries as people rushed to provide aid. CPJ also reviewed photographs of the damaged motorcycle that were shared by the Palestinian newspaper Al-Hadath in a messaging app.
Al Jazeera said in a statement the reporters were deliberately targeted, describing the incident as “a full-fledged crime added to Israel’s crimes against journalists, and a new part in the series of the deliberate targeting of Al Jazeera’s journalists and correspondents in Palestine.”
CPJ’s email to the North America Desk of the IDF seeking comment did not immediately receive a reply.
January 19, 2024
Emad Ghaboun
Ghaboun, a 29-year-old Palestinian freelance journalist, was injured in an Israeli drone strike while trying to transmit reporting in northern Gaza around 2 p.m. on January 19, 2024.
“I was…accompanied by fellow journalists. We were preparing a report for Al Jazeera on the worsening food crisis in the region,” Ghaboun told CPJ. His mobile phone, which he had been using to send material to the outlets, was destroyed in the blast.
Ghaboun contributes to several international news organizations, including Al Jazeera, Reuters, and Turkish state-owned Anadolu Agency. He was treated for shrapnel wounds to his chest and body at Al-Awda Hospital for several days, he told CPJ.
January 18, 2024
Abdul Rahman Lubbad
Lubbad, a volunteer reporter for the local social media-based Watan Media Agency, was shot while reporting on the bombardment of a civilian target in southern Gaza’s Khan Yunis, according to the Beirut-based press freedom group SKeyes and the journalist, who spoke to CPJ.
“I was shot in the right shoulder by an Israeli quadcopter drone,” said Lubbad, who moved to Khan Yunis after being displaced from his home near Gaza City at the start of the war.
He was taken to Nasser hospital where doctors extracted the bullet from his shoulder.
January 7, 2024
Hazem Rajab
Rajab, a Palestinian freelance journalist, was injured in an Israeli airstrike while traveling to cover a story in Rafah city in the southern Gaza Strip on January 7, 2024.
The same strike killed two journalists: Al-Jazeera journalist Hamza Al Dahdouh, who is the son of Al-Jazeera Gaza bureau chief Wael Al Dahdouh, and freelance journalist Mustafa Thuraya.
Rajab told CPJ he was injured in multiple parts of his body, including his right hand, right eye, and both ears. Due to the difficult conditions in Gaza, Rajab was unable to access adequate medical treatment following the injuries, as local hospitals lacked the capacity to address his complex injuries, Rajab said. Attempts to secure support through local organizations and medical providers were unsuccessful.
Four months later, on April 9, 2024, Rajab successfully arranged his own medical evacuation and crossed into Egypt, where he is currently pursuing advanced medical treatment, he told CPJ.
Amer Abu Amr
Abu Amr, a 40-year-old television director, editor, and cameraman who works full time with the pro-Palestinian Islamic Jihad broadcaster Palestine Today TV and as a freelancer with the BBC, was injured in an Israeli drone strike that hit a group of journalists north of Rafah in southern Gaza, according to the journalist?.
Abu Amro, a father of three, told CPJ that he went with several journalists to cover the retrieval of bodies from a home that had been bombed by Israeli forces earlier that morning.
“After we finished filming, an Israeli drone struck the area while I was speaking with colleagues,” Abu Amro said. “I was injured along with my colleague, correspondent Ahmed Al-Bursh. Several other journalists were also with us, including Hamza Al Dahdouh and Mustafa Thuraya. They followed us in their own car to the hospital while we were in an ambulance.”
Abu Amro said that only minutes later, he heard a loud explosion – the drone had struck the journalists’ car, killing Al-Dahdouh and Thuraya. Abu Amro sustained multiple shrapnel injuries, with one piece lodging near his right kidney. He was taken first to Abu Youssef Al-Najjar Hospital in Rafah, then transferred to the European Gaza Hospital in southern Khan Younis, where he stayed for two weeks before being discharged due to the lack of available treatment.
He told CPJ that the shrapnel remains beside his kidney and that he requires surgery to remove it.
Ahmed al-Bursh
Al-Bursh was injured in an Israeli strike, minutes before the one that killed Thuraya and Al Dahdouh.
Mohamed al-Qahwaji
Freelance photographer al-Qahwaji, who works for the privately owned Media Town and White Media, was returning from an assignment in Nasr village, northeast of Rafah in southern Gaza, in a convoy with journalists from Al Jazeera when the other car was hit by an Israeli drone strike, killing Al Jazeera’s Mustafa Thuraya and Hamza al-Dahdouh and injuring Hazem Rajab.
“A drone fired a missile that landed next to us. The driver moved quickly after the bombing, and we did not expect that we would be the target,” al-Qahwaji told CPJ.
“After we traveled about 2 kilometers [1.2 miles], the Israeli drone targeted our car again, which led to the martyrdom of my colleagues al-Dahdouh and Thuraya … I sustained serious injuries that left me in the hospital for more than three months,” he said.
The IDF later said that Thuraya and al-Dahdouh were targeted because they were terrorists, a charge that has been rejected by their families and Al Jazeera.
Al-Qahouji said the paramedics initially thought that he had died from his injuries and removed him from the ambulance.
“They got me out and put me on the side of the road. So I moved to tell them that I was still alive,” said al-Qahwaji.
He sustained a wound on the left side of his face, a fractured lower jaw, the loss of 80% of his teeth, and a fractured bone below his left eye, a burst eardrum, and shrapnel wounds all over his body. In addition, his middle finger was amputated, he lost a thumb joint, and his right hand was unable to move properly due to nerve damage.
Al-Qahouji underwent 45 surgeries to his face over four months, spending much of his time in the intensive care unit.
December 23, 2023
Khader Marquez
Marquez, a cameraman for Lebanon’s Hezbollah-owned TV channel Al-Manar was injured after shrapnel from an Israeli missile hit his car on the Khardali road of south Lebanon, injuring his left eye, according to Al-Manar correspondent Ali Shoeib, who was with Marquez, posted about the incident on social media, and spoke to the privately-owned Beirut-based Al-Jadeed TV. The incident also was reported by the privately owned Lebanese Annahar newspaper, the Beirut-based press freedom group SKeyes, the National News Agency, and multiple news reports.
December 22, 2023
Hamza Hammad
Hammad, a 30-year-old Palestinian correspondent for the privately owned Al-Ghad TV sustained severe burns on his face, neck, hands, feet, and back when Israeli warplanes bombed the house where his family were staying in Gaza City, after being displaced from northern Gaza, according to the Beirut-based press freedom group SKeyes and the journalist, who spoke to CPJ.
Hammad said that several family members were killed, while he was admitted to Kamal Adwan Hospital for more than a month. He shared a photograph with CPJ of his swollen burnt face and wrists.
“I am currently waiting for the war to end so that I can complete my treatment outside the Gaza Strip,” he told CPJ in February 2025, adding that he had already resumed work.
December 20, 2023
Muath Mohsen
Mohsen, a broadcast engineer at Al-Manara TV Production Company, which provides broadcast services, was injured by shrapnel in the head and neck when an Israeli airstrike hit a house and mosque near the Kuwaiti hospital in Gaza’s southern city of Rafah, according to the Beirut-based press freedom group SKeyes, Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate, and the journalist, who spoke to CPJ.
Mohsen was treated at the Kuwaiti hospital and then at Deir al-Balah’s Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital for two days, followed by a month of outpatient treatment.
“I underwent surgery on my head, and the shrapnel is still inside my head and neck,” he told CPJ.
December 19, 2023
Badr, a 36-year-old correspondent for Qatari-funded Al-Araby TV, was injured by an Israeli airstrike on Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza.
“I was hit by three pieces of shrapnel in my neck, shoulder, and pelvis,” Bader, a father of four, told CPJ.
“I received treatment in shelters and at volunteer medical points where my wounds were dressed. The shrapnel in my shoulder was removed, but the other two pieces remain,” he added, noting he did not go to nearby hospitals as they were under siege by Israeli forces.
Mohamed Ahmed
Ahmed, a Palestinian reporter for the pro-Hamas Shehab agency and photographer for the Hamas-funded Al-Aqsa TV channel, was injured in the left thigh in an Israeli airstrike on Block 2 of Jabalia refugee camp, northern Gaza, on December 19, according to the London-based pan-Arab newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat, Al-Araby TV, and Palestine TV. His colleague Islam Bader was injured in the same strike. A video posted by Al Jazeera shows the two journalists being treated in Jabalia medical center right after their injury. Another video posted by the local Palestine Post website shows Bader and Ahmed lying on the floor of the medical center frowning in pain.
December 18, 2023
Ashraf Ramadan
Ramadan, a 31-year-old Palestinian photographer who freelances for Britain’s publicly funded BBC and the privately owned Al-Ghad TV, was injured when shrapnel from a missile fired by an Israeli warplane hit his neighbor’s house and damaged his own home in Gaza’s southern city of Rafah, according to the Beirut-based press freedom group SKeyes and the journalist, who spoke to CPJ.
“I was injured by several pieces of shrapnel in my back, abdomen, right hand, and right leg,” he told CPJ, adding that he was admitted to the city’s Kuwaiti hospital for one day.
December 16, 2023
Ashraf Harara
Harara, the 46-year-old director of the Palestinian Authority-run Palestine TV channel, and his wife and children were injured by shrapnel when a shell fired by an Israeli tank hit their apartment in central Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp, according to the Beirut-based press freedom group SKeyes and the journalist, who spoke to CPJ.
Harara, a father of four, had been displaced multiple times after his home in the Shuja’iyya neighborhood, east of Gaza City, was bombed.
“I was exposed to direct tank shell fire without prior warning … I suffered a compound fracture, a cut, and a tear in my right hand, which prevented me from moving it,” he told CPJ, adding that he was admitted to Deir al-Balah’s Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital for two weeks and a platinum rod was inserted in his right arm.
“My wife’s thumb was amputated,” Harara said.
Mohamed Balousha
Balousha, a reporter for the Emirati-owned Dubai-based Al Mashhad TV, was shot in the thigh while reporting on the war from northern Gaza. According to his outlet Al Mashhad, Al Jazeera, and the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate, the bullet was fired by an Israeli sniper. Balousha said in a video that he lost consciousness for about 30 minutes after “six hours of agony” and was roused by the nuzzling of cats he was feeding before the shooting. Al Mashhad said that Israeli forces intercepted the ambulances sent to evacuate Balousha, delaying his transfer to a hospital for treatment.
In late November, Balousha broke a story that four premature babies left behind at al-Nasr Children’s Hospital died and their bodies had decomposed after Israel forced the staff to evacuate without ambulances. Balousha accused Israel of directly targeting him.
“I was wearing everything to prove that I was a journalist, but they deliberately targeted me, and now I am struggling to get the treatment necessary to preserve my life,” he told The Washington Post.
December 15, 2023
Wael Al Dahdouh
Al Jazeera’s Gaza bureau chief Al Dahdouh was injured by a drone strike while covering the aftermath of nightly Israeli strikes on a UN school sheltering displaced people in the center of Khan Yunis, southern Gaza, according to reports by their Al Jazeera, Middle East Eye, and Reuters. Al Dahdouh was hit with shrapnel in his hand and waist and treated at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis. His colleague, camera operator Samer Abu Daqqa, was killed in the same strike.
Mustafa Alkharouf
Alkharouf, a photographer with the Turkish state-owned Anadolu Agency, was covering Friday prayers near Al-Aqsa Mosque in East Jerusalem when a group of Israeli police and soldiers attacked him, according to Anadolu Agency, footage shared by The Union of Journalists in Israel, and the Palestinian Authority’s official news agency WAFA. Soldiers initially brandished their weapons at Alkharouf, punched him, and then threw him to the ground, kicking him. Alkharouf sustained severe blows, resulting in injuries to his face and body, and was transported by ambulance and treated at Makassed Hospital in East Jerusalem.
December 12, 2023
Mohammad Farhat
Farhat, a 27-year-old Palestinian volunteer correspondent for the local social media-based outlet Watan Media Agency, was injured while walking past his neighbor’s home when it was hit by an Israeli airstrike in central Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp, according to the Beirut-based press freedom group SKeyes and the journalist, who spoke to CPJ.
“I was seriously injured in my leg,” said Farhat, who was taken to the camp’s Al-Awda Hospital and then to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah. “I stayed there for 12 days, and a platinum rod was inserted in my leg. I am still undergoing surgeries,” he said.
November 23, 2023
Samed Wajjeh Abu Zarefa
Wajjeh, a 32-year-old Palestinian freelance photojournalist and producer working with NBC News and British daily The Times, was among seven journalists and photographers injured while covering the aftermath of an Israeli airstrike on a house in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, according to four journalists who spoke to CPJ.
The others injured were: Mohammed Al-Haddad, Haitham Nour Al-Din, Fadi Shana, Fatima Shbair, Amer Sultan, and Amr Tabash.
Wajjeh was treated at Nasser Hospital for bruises to his hand, leg, and body, he told CPJ, adding that “Wearing a helmet and protective vest significantly reduced the severity of my injuries.”
Haitham Nour Al-Din
Nour Al-Din, a 28-year-old Palestinian freelance photojournalist working with the Frankfurt-based European Pressphoto Agency, was among seven journalists and photographers injured while covering the aftermath of an Israeli airstrike on a house in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, according to four journalists who spoke to CPJ.
The others injured were: Samed Wajjeh Abu Zarefa, Mohammed Al-Haddad, Fadi Shana, Fatima Shbair, Amr Tabash, and Amer Sultan.
The journalist was trapped beneath the rubble for 30 minutes before being rescued by civil defense teams. Nour Al-Din told CPJ he was treated for two days at Nasser Hospital for injuries and bruises to his legs, which made it difficult to walk for a month.
Before the war, in 2019, Nour Al-Din won first place in the Photo Portfolio category at the Hamdan International Photography Awards (HIPA) for pictures he took of the Palestinian people.
Fatima Shbair
Shbair, a 28-year-old Palestinian photojournalist for the AP, was among seven journalists and photographers injured while covering the aftermath of an Israeli airstrike on a house in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, according to four journalists who spoke to CPJ.
The others injured were: Samed Wajjeh Abu Zarefa, Mohammed Al-Haddad, Haitham Nour Al-Din, Fadi Shana, Amer Sultan, and Amr Tabash.
Before the war, Shbair received international acclaim for her work documenting life in the Gaza Strip. In 2022, she was recognized in the World Press Photo Contest for her images of Palestinian children. In 2021, she received the Anja Niedringhaus Courage in Photojournalism award by the International Media Foundation, becoming the youngest recipient of the award at 24, since its establishment in 2015.
Fadi Shana
Shana, a 41-year-old Palestinian photojournalist for Reuters, was among seven journalists and photographers injured while covering the aftermath of an Israeli airstrike on a house in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, according to four journalists who spoke to CPJ. Images of Shana receiving assistance after being wounded were widely circulated by media outlets and on social media.
The others injured were: Samed Wajjeh Abu Zarefa, Mohammed Al-Haddad, Haitham Nour Al-Din, Fatima Shbair, Amer Sultan, and Amr Tabash.
Shana has worked for Reuters for over two decades, covering the Gaza Strip. In February 2024, Shana received the Royal Television Society’s Camera Operator of the Year award for his compelling work documenting life in Gaza before the war.
Shana is the cousin of Fadel Shana, a Reuters photographer who was killed by Israeli forces in 2008.
Amer Sultan
Sultan, a 30-year-old Palestinian freelance photographer and contributor to BBC Arabic and Emirati-owned Dubai-based Al Mashhad TV, was among seven journalists and photographers injured while covering the aftermath of an Israeli airstrike on a house in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, according to four journalists who spoke to CPJ.
The others injured were: Samed Wajjeh Abu Zarefa, Mohammed Al-Haddad, Haitham Nour Al-Din, Fadi Shana, Fatima Shbair, and Amr Tabash.
Sultan told CPJ he was treated at Nasser Hospital for bruising.
Amr Tabash
Tabash, a 27-year-old Palestinian freelance photojournalist and contributor to several outlets, including the BBC and local pro-Fatah Al-Kofiya TV, was among seven journalists and photographers injured while covering the aftermath of an Israeli airstrike on a house in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, according to four journalists who spoke to CPJ.
The others injured were: Samed Wajjeh Abu Zarefa, Mohammed Al-Haddad, Haitham Nour Al-Din, Fadi Shana, Fatima Shbair, and Amer Sultan.
“We arrived at the site alongside civil defense and ambulance crews,” Tabash told CPJ in a statement. “As we were filming the destruction, rescue workers were still searching through the rubble for survivors.”
While the reporters were on the ground floor of the damaged building, a nearby explosion caused part of the structure to collapse, Tabash told CPJ.
“I was trapped under debris and nearly lost my life, as I was at the heart of the collapse,” he told CPJ, adding that he was briefly treated at Nasser Hospital for injuries to his head and body. “Thankfully, my helmet and protective [press] vest helped reduce the severity.”
Mohammed Al-Haddad
Al-Haddad, a 41-year-old Palestinian freelance photojournalist working with privately-owned Iraqi IA News, was among seven journalists and photographers injured while covering the aftermath of an Israeli airstrike on a house in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, according to four journalists who spoke to CPJ. He was injured in multiple places, including a fracture to his left hand, he told CPJ.
The others injured were: Samed Wajjeh Abu Zarefa, Haitham Nour Al-Din, Fadi Shana, Fatima Shbair, Amer Sultan, and Amr Tabash.
November 18, 2023
Mohamed Al Sawaf
Mohamed Al Sawaf, an award-winning Palestinian film producer and director who founded the Gaza-based Alef Multimedia production company, was injured in an Israeli airstrike on his home in Shawa Square in Gaza City. The airstrike killed 30 members of his family, including his mother and his father, Mostafa Al Sawaf, who was also a journalist, according to the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate, Anadolu Agency, and TRT Arabic.
Montaser Al Sawaf
Montaser Al Sawaf, a Palestinian freelance photographer contributing to Anadolu Agency, was injured in the same Israeli airstrike that injured his brother, Mohamed Al Sawaf and killed their parents and 28 other family members, according to the Anadolu Agency, the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate, and TRT Arabic.
November 13, 2023
Issam Mawassi
Al Jazeera videographer Mawassi was injured after two Israeli missiles struck near journalists in Yaroun in southern Lebanon covering clashes, which also resulted in damage to the journalists’ cars in the area, according to multiple media reports, some of which show the journalists live on air the minute the second missile hit the area. CPJ reached out to Mawassi via a messaging app but didn’t receive any response.
November 9, 2023
Said Al-Majdalawi
Al-Majdalawi, a 33-year-old Palestinian camera operator and video editor working with privately owned Al-Ghad TV, was injured in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza’s southern city of Rafah on November 9, 2023.
“Israeli warplanes struck a grocery store located beneath residential buildings in Rafah,” Al-Majdalawi told CPJ. “I was documenting the aftermath of the strike when I suddenly realized I had been hit.”
He was treated at Kuwaiti Hospital for shrapnel injuries to his hands and legs.
November 8, 2023
Khaled Abu Sultan
Abu Sultan, a 31-year-old camera operator for Britain’s privately owned broadcaster ITN Network, was severely injured while preparing to interview two members of a family who had survived a bombing attack on their home in Gaza City, according to the Beirut-based press freedom group SKeyes and the journalist, who spoke to CPJ.
A missile from an Israeli drone hit the group, killing the two interviewees and a civil defense worker who was recovering bodies from the previous bombing.
“I was the only survivor,” Abu Sultan told CPJ. “I suffered hearing loss in my left ear … bone loss in my right hand, and shrapnel in my left leg that required the implantation of platinum plates.”
Abu Sultan was treated at two Gaza hospitals and then flown to the Egyptian capital Cairo, where he was admitted at the Nasser Institute Hospital.
“My transfer experience was full of risks. I remained in the Institute for treatment for about 15 days, and I am still receiving treatment,” he told CPJ from the house where he was staying in Cairo in February 2025.
Abu Sultan said his photographic shop and home in Gaza were both destroyed by Israeli bombing in November 2023.
November 2, 2023
Ismail Abu Hatab
Abu Hatab, a 32-year-old Palestinian filmmaker and owner of Clight TV production company, was injured by an Israeli airstrike while in his office on the 16th floor of Gaza City’s Al-Ghifari Tower, according to the Beirut-based press freedom group SKeyes and the journalist, who spoke to CPJ.
Another strike hit the neighboring Hajji Tower, where an unmanned video camera was broadcasting live feeds of the city from Agence France-Presse news agency’s abandoned office.
“I was seriously injured in my left leg, as well as some shrapnel in my head, shoulder, back, and mouth,” said Abu Hatab, who was taken to the city’s Al-Shifa Medical Complex, where he had surgery on his leg, and to Al-Quds Hospital, a few kilometers away.
“On the way, the Israeli occupation forces opened fire on the ambulance, and we miraculously survived,” Abu Hatab said.
He was trapped inside Al-Quds Hospital for several months, one of numerous medical facilities targeted by Israeli forces, who said that Hamas operatives were based inside — a charge Hamas denied.
“The Israeli occupation army besieged us until mid-February in Al-Quds Hospital, and then we were evacuated to the south. But the occupation stopped us at the Netzarim checkpoint for several hours and searched us, and forced me to walk on my injured leg, which led to a crooked leg,” Abu Hatab said.
Abu Hatab said he was evacuated to Al-Amal Hospital in the southern city of Khan Yunis, which was also under siege, and had to move further south to Rafah.
“There was no good care due to the overcrowding of the displaced, and I was forced to flee from the city of Rafah again in May 2024 after the occupation stormed it,” Abu Hatab told CPJ in February 2025 from central Gaza’s Deir al-Balah, where he was paying for ongoing treatment although his injury prevented him from working.
October 20, 2023
Freelance journalist Abu Samra, 36, who contributes to the pro-Fatah satellite broadcaster Al-Kofiya TV, was injuredwhen Israeli warplanes bombed a house near where he was working in the central Gaza city of Deir al-Balah.
Abu Samra, a father of two, told CPJ that he had gone to Deir al-Balah at around 3:30 p.m. to interview a person in need when Israeli warplanes struck the neighboring house. “I was pulled from under the rubble after two hours,” he said.
He added that he sustained a hairline fracture to his spine, burns across his body, a broken foot, and head and facial injuries. He was treated at Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah and remained there for three days before being discharged due to the large number of incoming casualties.
October 19, 2023
Ola Al Zaanoun
Al Zaanoun, a 44-year-old Palestinian journalist who works as the Gaza correspondent for Reporters Without Borders (RSF), was injured in an Israeli airstrike on Khan Younis in southern Gaza on October 19, 2023.
Al Zaanoun, a mother of five, told CPJ that an Israeli warplane struck a target in the building next to the one in which she had taken shelter after being displaced. “I sustained a tear in the medial collateral ligament of my right knee due to the force of the sudden blast,” she said.
She added that she went to Nasser Medical Complex in western Khan Yunis, where doctors considered her injury minor compared to the severe cases arriving amid heavy bombardment. She remained there for several hours before being discharged.
In February 2024, after four months of reporting under heavy bombardment, Al Zaanoun was evacuated from Gaza with RSF and AFP’s assistance, leaving Rafah with four of her children on an Egyptian military flight to Qatar, where she received medical treatment.
October 13, 2023
Thaer Al-Sudani
Al-Sudani, a journalist for Reuters news agency, was injured in an attack that killed Reuters’ Issam Abdallah near the border in southern Lebanon.
Maher Nazeh
Nazeh, a journalist for Reuters news agency, was also injured in the same southern Lebanon attack.
Elie Brakhya
Brakhya, an Al Jazeera TV staff member, was injured as well in the southern Lebanon attack.
Carmen Joukhadar
Joukhadar, an Al Jazeera TV reporter, was also wounded in the southern Lebanon attack.
Christina Assi
Assi, a photographer for the French news agency Agence France-Pressse, was injured in the southern Lebanon attack.
Dylan Collins
Dylan Collins, a video journalist for AFP, was also injured in the southern Lebanon attack.
October 11, 2023
Hams, a 45-year-old photographer for Agence France-Presse (AFP), was injured in the leg when Israeli warplanes and tanks fired white phosphorus and smoke shells near AFP’s office in the Hiji Tower in western Gaza City.
“The blasts shattered the glass windows I was photographing from, injuring my left leg,” Hams told CPJ.
He added that he was taken to Friends of the Patient Hospital in Gaza City’s Rimal neighborhood, where doctors treated his leg wounds with eight stitches. He remained there for about an hour before being discharged.
October 8, 2023
Saleh al-Masry
Al-Masry, the 49-year-old editor-in-chief of the pro-Islamic Jihad news agency Palestine Today, and his wife were injured by a dawn airstrike which destroyed the building next to their home in Gaza City, according to the International Federation of Journalists and al-Masry, who spoke with CPJ.
“I was injured in my arm and head, and I was admitted to the emergency room at Al-Shifa Medical Complex. My condition did not require me to stay overnight, but my wife was injured by shrapnel, which required her to undergo a number of surgeries,” he told CPJ.
October 7, 2023
Moath al-Hams
Al-Hams, a 28-year-old Palestinian journalist, who freelances for several media outlets, including the Qatari-based broadcasters Al Jazeera and Al Jazeera Mubasher and Reuters news agency, was injured in his right hand in an Israeli airstrike on the city of Rafah while covering the aftermath of strikes, according to the journalist, who spoke to CPJ.
“I sustained a moderate injury to my leg and was admitted to Abu Yousef al-Najjar Hospital east of Rafah for five hours, before being discharged to complete my treatment at home,” al-Hams told CPJ.
The Palestinian Authority’s official news agency WAFA and the Palestinian press freedom group MADA said al-Hams’ house in Rafah was bombed on June 8, 2024, which led to its total destruction.
Ibrahim Qanan
Qanan, a 52-year-old correspondent for the privately owned Al-Ghad TV, was injured by an Israeli drone strike in Khan Yunis.
Qanan, a father of eight, told CPJ that he was outside Nasser Hospital preparing for a live broadcast when a passing ambulance was hit.
“Many were injured, including me. I was struck by 13 pieces of shrapnel in my leg, foot, abdomen, face, chest, and right shoulder,” he said, adding that he was treated at Nasser Hospital for about four hours, after which he returned to continue broadcasting.
CPJ safety advisories
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MISSING
October 7, 2023
Nidal Al-Wahidi
Nidal Al-Wahidi, a cameraman and photographer in Gaza for the Nablus-based Palestinian broadcaster An-Najah Nbc Channel, went missing near the Erez crossing, known in Gaza as the Beit Hanoun crossing, while reporting on Hamas’ attack on Israel on October 7, 2023 according to news reports, the Palestinian press freedom organization MADA, and a video interview with his father, Suhail Al-Wahidi, on Qatari-owned broadcaster Al Jazeera Mubasher.
On assignment? Yes
Haitham Abdelwahid
Haitham Abdelwahid, a cameraman and video editor for Ain Media, a Gaza production company, went missing near the Erez crossing, known locally as the Beit Hanoun crossing, while reporting on Hamas’ attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, according to news reports, his employer, and the Palestinian press freedom organization MADA.
On assignment? Yes
Clarifications and corrections:
*Definition of a journalist: CPJ defines journalists as people who regularly cover news or comment on public affairs through any medium to report or share fact-based information with an audience. This definition covers those working for a broad range of publicly and privately funded news outlets, as well as freelancers. In the cases CPJ has documented, multiple sources have found no evidence to date that any journalist was engaged in militant activity.
CPJ’s global database of killed journalists and media workers includes only those confirmed to have been killed in connection with their work or where it is unclear whether their death was work-related (motive unconfirmed.) Our research is ongoing and we remove names from our list if we determine that a person either was incorrectly identified as a journalist or could not have been working at the time of their death.
CPJ has removed a Palestinian man, Mohamed Khaireddine, from its database. Khaireddine was previously identified as a journalist, but his family later clarified that he was neither a journalist nor a media support worker.
CPJ has removed six other Palestinian journalists from its database that were found not to be journalists or media workers: Bahaa Okasha, Salma Mkhaimar, Ahmed Fatima, Mohamed Al Jaja, Assaad Shamallakh, and Mohamed Fayez Abu Matar.
CPJ has removed two Israeli journalists, Shai Regev and Ayelet Arnin, from its database after their outlets confirmed that the journalists were not on assignment to cover the music festival, nor were they in a position to begin reporting on the attack by Hamas militants that killed them on October 7. CPJ’s global database of killed journalists includes only those who have been killed in connection with their work or where there is still some doubt that their death was work-related.
After receiving reports that Palestinian journalist and presenter Alaa Taher Al-Hassanat may have survived the attack thought to have killed her, CPJ has removed her name from its database pending further investigation.
On February 6, 2024, Canadian-Palestinian journalist Mansour Shouman was found alive after being reported missing more than two weeks before. We have removed him from our list of missing journalists.
According to CPJ’s research, Israeli journalist Oded Lifschitz wasn’t working when he was taken as a hostage by Hamas on October 7, 2023. CPJ removed his name from the list of missing journalists after contacting the family.
This text has been updated to add detail about the funding of Al-Aqsa TV channel and the editorial stance of Shehab agency.
On March 13, 2024, the database numbers were updated to subtract a casualty that did not occur in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
On April 9, 2025, this page was updated to correct the job description of Ihab Al-Bardini.