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Israel kills another Palestinian journalist amid global outcry over earlier deaths

Iran Press TV

Monday, 25 August 2025 7:04 PM

Israeli forces opened fire on a Palestinian journalist in southern Gaza, just hours after he had paid tribute to five of his colleagues killed in earlier Israeli strikes.

Hassan Douhan, a journalist and academic who worked as a correspondent for the al-Hayat al-Jadida publication, was shot dead by Israeli fire in Khan Younis on Monday.

His death brings the number of journalists killed in Gaza on Monday to six, and raises the total number of media workers killed since the start of Israel's war on the Strip in October 2023 to 246, according to the Gaza government media office.

Earlier, Israel carried out a "double tap" strike on Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, killing at least 20 people, including five journalists and a paramedic, and wounding dozens more.

In his final post on Facebook, Douhan paid tribute to the five journalists killed at Nasser Hospital.

"The martyrs of righteousness and conveying the truth, the word and the picture," he wrote of the slain journalists. "The martyrs of national duty and journalism. To the eternal heavens, moons of the homeland and professional colleagues."

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) condemned the fatal Israeli strike on Nasser Hospital, urging the international community to hold Israel accountable for its "continued unlawful attacks on the press."

CPJ's Regional Director Sara Qudah said Israel's killing of journalists in the strip continues while "the world watches and fails to act firmly on the most horrific attacks the press has ever faced in recent history."

"These murders must end now. The perpetrators must no longer be allowed to act with impunity," Qudah stressed.

The CPJ previously noted that Israel's war on Gaza has been the deadliest conflict for journalists ever recorded.

The United Nations also called for "accountability and justice" following the killing of the five journalists by Israel.

"The killing of journalists in Gaza should shock the world - not into stunned silence but into action, demanding accountability and justice," UN rights office spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani said in a statement.

"Journalists are not a target. Hospitals are not a target,"she added.

Israel has launched a genocidal war on Gaza since October 7, 2023, after Palestinian resistance fighters carried out the surprise Operation Al-Aqsa Storm against the Zionist entity in response to the regime's decades-long campaign of death and destruction against Palestinians.

The regime's bloody onslaught on Gaza has so far killed more than 62,800 Palestinians, mostly women and children.