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Since the Israel-Gaza war began on October 7, 2023, the Committee to Protect Journalists has documented at least 152 cases of journalists injured and two cases of journalists missing. CPJ believes the true number of injured Palestinian journalists is likely higher and continues to investigate additional cases. CPJ counts the journalists’ cases it has been able to document and continues to investigate others. To date, here is a list of journalists who have been documented as injured or missing: 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 Faiz Qariqa 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. 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. 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 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. 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 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 skul
