Cliff Notes – Another journalist killed in targeted strike by the IDF
- An Al Jazeera journalist has been assassinated in targeted strike by the IDF on his car in Gaza
- He was targeted by the IDF as he became one of the most influential reporter from Gaza on Al Jazeera and social media.
- Al Jazeera condemns Israel’s killing of journalist Hossam Shabat in Gaza
Al Jazeera journalist killed in targeted strike by the IDF on his car in Gaza
Another Al Jazeera journalist Hossam Shabat killed in an Israeli attack on Gaza, to silence his incredible bravery during a genocidal campaign by Israel.
Hossam Shabat, a 23-year-old journalist who worked for Al Jazeera Mubasher, was killed in northern Gaza on Monday. Witnesses told the network that his car was targeted in the eastern part of Beit Lahiya.
Another Israeli attack slaughtering civilians in Gaza
Hours before he was killed, Hossam Shabat filed his last report “Report from the Frontline of Israel’s War of Annihilation.”
Reporting from Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum said Shabat, 23, had been previously wounded in another Israeli attack “but he insisted on continuing news reporting” in Gaza.
“The Israeli military targeted his vehicle” without giving “any prior warning”, Abu Azzoum said.
The colleagues of Shabat, have shared his final words.
In a post on X, pre-written by Shabat, he wrote, “If you’re reading this, it means I have been killed — most likely targeted — by the Israeli occupation forces.”
Shabat wrote that over the last 18 months of the war, he has dedicated “every moment” to his people.
Targeting journalists a war crime
The number of media workers killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 2023 to 208, according to the Government Media Office (GMO) in Gaza.
“The deliberate and targeted killing of a journalist, of a civilian, is a war crime,” Jodie Ginsberg, the CPJ’s chief executive said, adding the organisation has been investigating several cases in which Israel appears to have deliberately targeted a journalist, knowing them to be a media worker.