Israel strike on journalists’ tent in Gaza kills 2, injures 8
The Committee to Protect Journalists denounces Israel’s targeted airstrike that hit a media tent in the grounds of a hospital in Gaza on Monday, killing two journalists and injuring eight others, and calls on the international community to act to stop Israel killing Palestinian journalists.
Hilmi al-Faqaawi, a social media manager for pro-Palestinian Islamic Jihad Palestine Today TV, was killed in the fire. Ahmed Mansour, a Palestine Today news agency editor, died that night after sustaining severe burns.
The Israel Defense Forces said the strike targeted Hassan Eslayeh, a freelance photographer who was with Hamas on October 7, 2023. The IDF said Eslayeh, who was injured on April 7, 2025, was a “terrorist” who “participated in the bloody massacre.”
“This is not the first time Israel has targeted a tent sheltering journalists in Gaza. The international community’s failure to act has allowed these attacks on the press to continue with impunity, undermining efforts to hold perpetrators accountable,” said CPJ Middle East and North Africa Regional Director Sara Qudah. “CPJ calls on authorities to allow the injured, some of whom have sustained severe burns, to be evacuated immediately for treatment and to stop attacking Gaza’s already devastated press corps.”
Footage verified by Reuters news agency showed people trying to douse flames in the tent, while images of someone trying to rescue a journalist in flames were widely shared online.
See also: Israel-Gaza war
Journalists kidnapped, almost lynched in worsening Haiti chaos
The Committee to Protect Journalists is concerned about deteriorating media safety amid surging violence in Haiti, in which at least one journalist was kidnapped and two were almost lynched.
Roger Claudy Israël, owner of local radio station RC FM, and his brother were kidnapped in the central city of Mirebalais by Viv Ansanm gang members who threatened to execute their captives in an April 4 video.
Viv Ansanm, or Living Together in Creole, is an alliance of former rival gangs who joined forces in 2023 and took control of most of the capital Port-au-Prince.
“We call on Roger Claudy Israël’s kidnappers to free him and his brother without delay and urge Haitian authorities to restore order so that journalists and other citizens can live free from fear,” said CPJ U.S., Canada, and Caribbean Program Coordinator Katherine Jacobsen.
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