Mourners carry the body of Palestinian journalist Ismail Baddah, who was among those killed in the Israeli strike
Mera Aladam – Middle East Eye June 5, 2025
At least four Palestinian journalists were killed in Israeli strikes targeting a group of media workers in Gaza City’s al-Ahli Arab hospital’s courtyard, local reporters told Middle East Eye.
According to local sources, the attack on Thursday morning came with no prior warning of the bombing.
The Israeli assault has so far claimed the lives of correspondent Suleiman Hajjaj and photographer Ismail Badah, who both worked for Palestine Today TV, alongside photographers Samir al-Rifai, who worked for the Shams News Agency, and Ahmed Qaljah, who worked for Al-Arabiya TV.
Journalist Imad Daloul, who works for Palestine Today TV, was also critically injured in the Israeli attack and has been rushed to the intensive care unit.
Footage online shows bodies scattered across the courtyards of the Al-Ahli Hospital, otherwise known as the Baptist Hospital, as Palestinians attempt to aid one another.
Reporters told MEE that Israeli warplanes targeted the hospital’s courtyards as journalists were covering the events on the ground.
Hamas released a statement condemning a “new war crime” by Israel.
“This is part of a systematic Zionist policy targeting Palestinian journalists to silence their voices, deter them from covering the occupation’s crimes in Gaza, and obliterate its just narrative of the enemy’s horrific crimes against our Palestinian people,” the group said.
“This crime constitutes a complex war crime, as it assassinated journalists protected under the Geneva Conventions and all international conventions, and bombed a civilian hospital protected under international law.
“This reflects the insistence of the criminal government of Benjamin Netanyahu to expand the scope of its crimes of genocide against the Palestinian people and its blatant disregard for the international community and its legal and humanitarian system.”
‘Worst-ever conflict’ for journalists
Thursday’s killing of journalists is the latest in a wave of deadly Israeli attacks on Palestinian media workers.
The Israeli war on Gaza has been described by monitoring groups as the “worst-ever conflict” for journalists, due to the record number of media workers killed – at least 225 in 2o months.
According to a report published last month by the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Israel’s war on Gaza since October 2023 has “killed more journalists than the US Civil War, World Wars I and II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War (including the conflicts in Cambodia and Laos), the wars in Yugoslavia in the 1990s and 2000s, and the post-9/11 war in Afghanistan, combined”.
“In 2023, a journalist or media worker was, on average, killed or murdered every four days. In 2024, it was once every three days,” said the report.
“Most reporters harmed or killed, as is the case in Gaza, are local journalists.”
The Israeli military has frequently justified its attacks on civilian sites in Gaza, including hospitals, by alleging that Hamas uses them for military operations.
The latest Israeli assault brings the number of journalists killed since 7 October 2023 to 225, Arab48 reported.
Overall, Israeli forces have killed more than 54,607 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip since the start of the war and wounded 125,341 others.
jews are sick bastards
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Don’t drink sulphuric acid and don’t go near Israelis without proper protection
a lot of the hospital funding here was funded by americam christains
they are furious at this
israel is not doing itself any favours
many think trump should withdraw support and bomb israel
Odd how nobody in these governments or media requests the UN to intervene & deploy its military wing or ‘peacekeepers’ to Israel. They had no problem clamoring for them to go to to Sudan, Congo, Haiti, Ivory Coast, Serbia, Ethiopia & other various sh*tholes to resolve conflicts there.
Every single day judeo-christians bomb Gaza and kill children, hospital staff, journalists. Well, for the hungry people in Gaza it hardly makes any difference what is the news agency you’ve been lucky to find a job with. But as a symbol it still matteres – this time around it looks like the kikes attacked their friends- Al-Arabiya TV is based in UAE and is very judeo-christian friendly as well as the country it’s based in. Here below you have a vid about the UAE – kike war criminals, like those who killed the palestinian journalists feel at home there
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q86TZsSj2zE
Then there is Shams News Agency which is Syria, and the syrian strongman Jewlani is also a perfect partner of the kikes. Here below you have a couple of vids about that
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbR7n5_avwA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJk0ak6k5F4
So, dear Mera Aladam, il’ask you again a couple of simple questions i already asked so many times in the past, maybe this time you’ll answer: Where are you sunni brothers? Why don’t they help you now when the Shia Crescent(Syria of Bashar Al-Asad linking Iran and Hizbullah) has been removed with a very active palestinian partecipation? Nothing stands anymore between the suffering Gaza and the brave sunni armies, just go ahead. Are you chicken of the kikes?Oy vey!
And then, dear Mera Aladam, how do you call the Persian Gulf? Whose are the 3 islands – Greater and Lesser Tungs and Abu Musa?
what the f…ck is going on ? whole Gaza now is rubble
and above foto is years old + hospitals were destroyed
from beginning is this old news preceding ?
Obviously it was the Nazis Nazis.
How fortunate to have CJ to educate us.
is germany only country with functioning sewage treatment ?
as exseaman I have seen how Brazil spills its dirt into rivers
and atlantic + I doubt if mediterranian masstourism countries
and overpopulated costas treat their sewage . I saw in middle
of mediterranian sea toiletpaper + other waste + our ships machine +
paint buckets going over bord . if I today see the mainships routs
on marine traffic I can imagine the massdirt from ships on ocean
bottom .
notice never anything on these alt news sites about white kids in ukraine being killed by the commie slavo-mongol mongrels of russia