Mohammed Mansour, a 30-year-old Palestinian journalist who worked as a reporter for the pro-Islamic Jihad, Beirut-based Palestine Today TV, was killed in an Israeli airstrike on his home in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza, on March 24, 2025. Mansour’s wife was injured in the strike.
Al Jazeera’s E-Learn platform posted a video featuring Mansour on March 23, where he spoke of the hardships Palestinian journalists and the media industry faced because of the war.
Mansour’s colleague, Ibrahim Ibrahim told CPJ, "Mohammed's last coverage was on the evening of Sunday, March 23, 2025, when Israeli aircraft bombed a section of the Nasser Medical Complex, west of Khan Yunis. He was covering the situation live for the channel, and then he left [for] home."
Ibrahim said that Mansour was displaced from the southern city of Rafah with his family and lived in tents for displaced people until a few days before his death, when he moved to a rented apartment with his wife in southern Khan Yunis, near his workplace.
Palestine Today TV mourned Mansour in a statement that held Israel and the United States responsible for his death.
"The channel confirms that the targeting was a deliberate assassination of colleague Mohammed Mansour, and it believes that this assassination is inseparable from the general context that the enemy has adopted since the beginning of its aggression in targeting the press and media corps." CPJ was unable to independently confirm whether Mansour was deliberately targeted for his journalistic work.
CPJ’s emailed the Israel Defense Force’s North America Media Desk to ask whether it knew that civilians and journalists were in the area it attacked, and whether Mansour was targeted for his work, but didn’t immediately receive a response.