The airstrike on the tent housing journalists in the grounds of Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis killed Hilmi al-Faqaawi, a social media manager for pro-Palestinian Islamic Jihad broadcaster Palestine Today TV, and injured the following journalists:

• Ahmed Mansour, Palestine Today news agency editor
• Ahmed Al-Agha, BBC Arabic contributor
• Mohammed Fayeq, freelance photojournalist and drone operator
• Abdullah Al-Attar, freelance photographer for Anadolu Agency
• Ihab Al-Bardini, camera operator contributing to U.S. channel ABC
• Mahmoud Awad, Al Jazeera camera operator
• Majed Qudaih, Radio Algerie correspondent
• Ali Eslayeh, photographer for West Bank-based site Alam24

The Israel Defense Forces said the strike targeted Hassan Eslayeh, a freelance photographer who was with Hamas on October 7, 2023. The IDF said Eslayeh, who was injured on April 7, 2025, was a “terrorist” who “participated in the bloody massacre.”

In 2023, the pro-Israeli watchdog HonestReporting published a photo of Eslayeh being kissed by then-Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, after which CNN, the Associated Press and Reuters news agencies cut ties with the journalist.

“This is not the first time Israel has targeted a tent sheltering journalists in Gaza. The international community’s failure to act has allowed these attacks on the press to continue with impunity, undermining efforts to hold perpetrators accountable,” said CPJ Middle East and North Africa  Director Sara Qudah. “CPJ calls on authorities to allow the injured, some of whom have sustained severe burns, to be evacuated immediately for treatment and to stop attacking Gaza’s already devastated press corps.”

Footage verified by Reuters news agency showed people trying to douse flames in the tent while other images of someone trying to rescue a journalist in flames were widely shared online.

CPJ’s email to the IDF’s North America Media Desk to request comment did not receive an immediate response.

More than 170 journalists and media workers have been killed in the Israel-Gaza war.

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The Ministry of Information informed the radio station by phone of the suspension on December 1, 2021, according to those reports. Earlier in the day, al-Alawi had interviewed Shura Council member Mohammad al-Zadjali on her program “All Questions,” during which he criticized the council and the Ministry of Information. In its article on the suspension, BBC Arabic embedded a video of the conversation, originally posted on Twitter, which shows al-Alawi interrupting al-Zadjali’s comments, saying “all appreciation to the Ministry of Information, which supervises our work, and we also follow all of the laws,” before abruptly ending the interview.

On December 23, the Ministry of Information issued a memo to media outlets in Oman ordering them to coordinate with the ministry when hosting members of the Shura Council, according to the Gulf Center, which linked to a photo of the memo posted on Twitter by a former council member. The Shura Council is the lower house of the Omani Parliament and the only one elected by popular vote in Oman.

CPJ was unable to confirm the grounds on which al-Alawi’s suspension was decided, whether the ministry’s order suspended al-Alawi from her duties as the station’s general manager or only as host of “All Questions,” or if the suspension was for a specified length of time, as the ministry did not release a written decision and did not immediately respond to CPJ’s email request for comment.

On January 2, 2022, the station advertised the next upcoming episode of “All Questions” on its Twitter profile and tagged al-Alawi, without mentioning the prior suspension of either the program or its host. As of January 10, the station was promoting the program with al-Alawi as its host on its website.

CPJ reached out to Hala FM via the station’s website for comment on the reasons for al-Alawi’s suspension and whether she had returned to work but did not immediately receive a response.

BBC Arabic describes Hala FM as being the first private radio station in Oman. According to the U.S. human rights organization Freedom House’s 2021 country report, private media outlets in Oman receive subsidies from the government and practice self-censorship on sensitive topics. The Omani Centre for Human rights, a UK-based human rights organization, detailed several arrests of activists and media workers for social media posts in its 2021 annual report, while also reporting on al-Alawi’s suspension.

Omani authorities shuttered the sultanate’s only independent newspaper and sentenced three of its journalists to varying prison sentences in 2016, as CPJ reported at the time.

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