Tuesday, August 20, 2024
Year : 2, Issue: 33
The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza and a Palestinian news site said Monday that a journalist was killed by Israeli fire the previous day in the south of the territory.
“Ibrahim Muharab’s body was taken to Nasser Hospital”, in the southern city of Khan Yunis Monday, the ministry said.
Palestinian Daily News, a website for which Muharab worked, announced his death “following shelling from the Israeli occupation on him and a group of journalists”.
It added that Muharab’s body was found on Monday morning in Hamad City, a large apartment complex built by Qatar and now in ruins.
Two other journalists who were with Muharab at the time were wounded and sent to Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, an AFP journalist on the ground reported.
Online videos that AFP could not separately authenticate show an Israeli armoured vehicle advancing towards the Hamad neighbourhood while bullets are being fired.
At least one man wearing a “Press” jacket can be seen running away from the shots before a voice can be heard saying “Ibrahim is wounded, where is he?”
About 30 people gathered on Monday at the hospital to stand around Muharab’s body, which was laid on the ground under a white plastic tarpaulin on which a bulletproof jacket marked “Press” was laid like a wreath, AFPTV footage showed.
Source: AFP
