Mohammed Mansour, a 30-year-old Palestinian journalist who worked as a freelance reporter for the pro-Islamic Jihad, Beirut-based Palestine Today TV, was killed in an Israeli airstrike on 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, one day before his killing, 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 [piece of] 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.
In June 2026, CPJ undertook a review of its documentation of journalists and media workers killed in the Israel-Gaza war since 2023, and examined IDF claims alleging that Mansour was a combatant alongside journalist Hossam Shabat, who was killed later that same day.
CPJ was unable to find any reliable evidence linking Mansour to armed military groups or that he participated in combat, including credible images, armed-group obituaries, official statements, or other reliable information. Two independent credible sources confirmed that he was an active journalist and had no military affiliations.
Based on the available evidence, CPJ was unable to determine that Mansour was an active combatant, and therefore qualified as a journalist under the organization’s methodology, and has retained him in its database.
CPJ continues to review its documentation and will update its findings if credible new information emerges.