The health ministry in Gaza and a Palestinian news site has said that a journalist was killed by Israeli fire the previous day in the south of the territory.
“Ibrahim Muharab’s body was taken to Nasser Hospital”, in the southern city of Khan Yunis Monday, the ministry said.
Palestinian Daily News, a website for which Muharab worked, announced his death “following shelling from the Israeli occupation on him and a group of journalists”. It added that Muharab’s body was found on Monday morning in Hamad City, a large apartment complex built by Qatar and now in ruins.
Two other journalists who were with Muharab at the time were wounded and sent to Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, an AFP journalist on the ground reported.
Online videos that AFP could not separately authenticate show an Israeli armoured vehicle advancing towards the Hamad neighbourhood while bullets are being fired. At least one man wearing a “Press” jacket can be seen running away from the shots before a voice can be heard saying “Ibrahim is wounded, where is he?”
Contacted by AFP, the Israeli army declined to comment on this specific case without receiving the geographic coordinates for the location of Muharab’s death and his identification card.
