GAZA (Palestine Foundation Information Center) An Israeli airstrike targeted a media tent housing journalists near the Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, south of Gaza, at dawn Monday, killing two civilians, including a journalist.
Nine other journalists were injured, some critically, in the airstrike on the tent. The slain journalist was identified as Helmi al-Faqaawi, a reporter for Palestine Today TV.
Footage showed people trying to douse flames engulfing the tent, inside the compound of the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, during the early hours of Monday.
Other footage posted on social media appeared to show the tent had been burned to the ground, along with the furniture and equipment inside it.
Images appearing to show a journalist in flames while sitting on a chair and another person trying to rescue him, were widely shared on social media.
The Israeli attack on those journalists happened less than 48 hours after an airstrike on a house in Khan Yunis claimed the life of journalist Islam Miqdad.
On Sunday evening, an Israeli airstrike on an apartment building in central Khan Yunis massacred at least six civilians, including four women and two children, and injured 28 others.
Medical sources said that many civilians were still buried under the rubble of the bombed building, adding that efforts were underway to reach them.
