Rasheed Albably, a 33-year-old Palestinian freelance journalist, was killed in an Israeli airstrike that hit a United Nations Relief and Works Agency-run school around dawn on June 6, 2024. The school was housing a large number of displaced Palestinians in the Nuseirat refugee camp, west of central Gaza, according to SKeyes, several of his outlets, and Albably’s wife Aseel Badwan, who spoke to CPJ.
Albably wrote articles for a local Palestine newspaper, created content for websites at the Belgium-based European Institute for Training and Development and worked as a sound engineer and voice-over specialist at several outlets, including the independent regional podcast production company Sowt.
CPJ emailed the Israel Defense Forces’ North America Media Desk in late September 2024, asking for comment on the killing of Albably.
In an exchange that followed, the IDF asked CPJ for the journalists’ IDs and "relevant coordinates," which CPJ explained it could not provide due to research limitations. The IDF then said it could not fully address CPJ’s inquiry due to a lack of "sufficient details."
The IDF said it takes "all operationally feasible measures" to prevent harm to journalists and other civilians, asserting that "many" on CPJ’s list were Hamas members and therefore lawful targets, but did not name the journalists or provide evidence they were Hamas fighters.