Mahdi Al-Mamluk, a Palestinian external broadcast engineer for the Islamic Jihad-affiliated Al-Quds Al-Youm TV, was killed in an Israeli airstrike west of Gaza City on November 11, 2024, according to news reports, and his manager, who spoke to CPJ.
“Mahdi lived in the Shuja’iyya neighborhood, east of Gaza City, and since the beginning of the war he had been displaced more than once,” Mohammed Al-Amsi, the channel’s external broadcast manager, told CPJ, adding that the engineer remained in Gaza City and transmitted reports about the siege of its Al-Shifa hospital while other members of staff were displaced southwards.
“Mahdi was supervising coverage of the war and the people’s suffering and transmitting the images from the northern Gaza Strip. On Monday evening, he was in the vicinity of Al-Shifa Medical Complex, west of Gaza City, doing his job transmitting the situation, when he was targeted by Israeli airstrikes, and he was martyred instantly,” Al-Amsi said.
CPJ’s email to the Israel Defense Forces’ North America Media Desk asking whether the military knew there was a media worker in the area it attacked and whether Al-Mamluk was targeted for his work did not immediately receive a response.