Four more journalists killed in Israeli strike on Gaza hospital yard

By Al Mayadeen English
Source: Al Mayadeen
5 Jun 2025 13:33
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This brings the death toll of Palestinian media workers since October 7 to 226.

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The body of Palestinian journalist Yahya Sobeih, who was killed along with at least 28 others in an Israeli army strike on a restaurant, is carried for burial at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, Wednesday, May 7, 2025 (AP)

Four journalists were killed and several others were wounded in an Israeli airstrike on the courtyard of the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza City.

The journalists killed at the hospital site were identified as Suleiman Hajjaj and Ismail Bdah of Palestine Today TV, journalist Samir Rifai, and photojournalist Ahmad Qalja.

Journalist Imad Daloul, also of Palestine Today and a contributor to Al Mayadeen Net, was critically injured.

The moment after the israelis target, bomb & kill journalists who were sheltering together in the courtyards of the Baptist Hospital in Gaza City pic.twitter.com/J2qIluF40j
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The Government Media Office in Gaza also announced that Yousef Nakhalah, a journalist at Watania News Agency, was killed on Saturday, May 31, 2025.

The Media Office strongly condemned the systematic targeting and killing of Palestinian journalists by Israeli forces. It urged the International Federation of Journalists, the Arab Journalists Union, and all press organizations worldwide to denounce the deliberate campaign against journalists and media workers in the Gaza Strip.

This raises the total number of Palestinian journalists killed in Gaza since October 7, 2023, to 226.

The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate said "Israel" has destroyed 115 media offices in Gaza since the beginning of the war.

Al Mayadeen's correspondent reported that Israeli airstrikes have killed 23 Palestinians in various parts of the Gaza Strip since dawn Thursday.

Hospital targeted for 8th time

The director of Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital, Dr. Fadel Naim, confirmed that this was the eighth time the hospital has been targeted since the start of the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza. He warned that the hospital is under severe strain following the shutdown of numerous other medical facilities across Gaza.

'Compound crime'

In a statement, the Palestinian Resistance Committees mourned the slain journalists and described the attack as a “compound crime” targeting both a civilian hospital and journalists reporting from the scene.

The group called on all international press unions and journalist organizations to take immediate action to halt Israeli crimes against Palestinian media workers and urged all news agencies to boycott the Israeli government and its officials.

Continued bloodshed across Gaza

In southern Gaza, four Palestinians were killed in an Israeli strike near Bani Suheila junction, east of Khan Younis. Two more were killed in a separate strike that targeted a humanitarian vehicle west of Khan Younis.

In the north, two people, including a pregnant woman, were killed in an airstrike on Jabalia town. Israeli artillery also shelled the al-Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza.