DaysofPal- The Gaza Government Media Office has called for urgent international intervention following the death of journalist Ahmed Mansour, who succumbed to severe burns after an Israeli airstrike targeted a media tent in Khan Younis early Tuesday morning. His death marks the 211th journalist killed since Israel’s war on Gaza began in October 2023.
“We call on the International Federation of Journalists, the Federation of Arab Journalists, and all journalistic bodies in all countries of the world to condemn these systematic crimes against Palestinian journalists and media professionals in the Gaza Strip,” the media office said in a statement.
Mansour died at dawn from injuries sustained in Monday’s bombing near the Nasser Medical Complex, which also claimed the lives of fellow journalist Hilmi al-Faqawi and young Youssef al-Khazandar.
Shocking footage of the attack circulated widely on social media, showing Mansour engulfed in flames as the tent burned.
Several other journalists were also wounded in the attack, including Hassan Isleih, Ahmed al-Agha, Mohammed Fayek, Abdullah al-Attar, Ihab al-Bardini, Mahmoud Awad, Majed Qdeih, and Ali Isleih.
The Government Media Office emphasized that the toll of 211 journalist deaths is the highest recorded globally since the start of monitoring journalist fatalities in 1992. Of the victims, 13 were female journalists.
The majority of those killed died as a result of airstrikes carried out by reconnaissance drones or combat aircraft. Others were shot by snipers or killed in targeted operations on their homes. The office stressed that many journalists were killed “while carrying out their journalistic duties” or during “indiscriminate bombings throughout the ongoing genocidal war.”
There have also been at least 185 journalists hurt in various attacks in addition to the deaths. Social media activists have also come under threat, with many reportedly targeted and warned to remain silent or face death.
The statement linked the targeting of media workers to what it described as a “broader genocidal campaign” in Gaza, in which at least 15 journalists have been killed in 2025 alone.
The Israeli military renewed its assault on the Gaza Strip on March 18, shattering a brief ceasefire and prisoner exchange agreement reached in January. Since then, nearly 1,400 people have been killed and more than 3,400 injured in intensified strikes.
Last week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged to escalate attacks further, aligning with efforts to implement U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan to forcibly displace Palestinians from Gaza.
This comes amid a larger humanitarian catastrophe. Since the beginning of the war in October 2023, over 50,700 Palestinians, most of them women and children, have been killed in the Israeli genocidal war.
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