Palestinian media worker Youssef Al-Nakhala was killed in an Israeli airstrike that targeted his family home in northern Gaza City on Saturday evening, according to a journalist on the scene who spoke to Al Manassa.
Al-Nakhala, a broadcast engineer working in Palestinian media, had been working continuously since the Israeli offensive began 20 months ago.
Al-Nakhala’s death brings the number of journalists killed in Israel’s war on Gaza to 222. Journalists have been killed while covering events, working in the field, or in their homes. Some were directly assassinated by the Israeli occupation army.
The Israeli occupation army stepped up its bombardment of northern Gaza overnight, issuing evacuation orders and shelling residential areas heavily.
A journalist on the scene told Al Manassa that at least 13 buildings in Gaza City were bombed Saturday evening after residents received phone calls from Israeli occupation officers ordering them to leave.
A witness said the strikes caused extensive destruction, damaging dozens of shops in one of the city’s oldest markets.
Meanwhile, across Gaza, dozens of civilians were killed in airstrikes that hit homes, tents, and vehicles on Saturday and Sunday. Among the dead were a young man, his wife and their three children killed in a tent in northwestern Gaza, and four others killed when a vehicle was struck near Al-Sahaba Medical Complex in central Gaza City.
In Khan Younis in southern Gaza, medics reported heavy shelling that killed at least 28 people and left dozens injured. Fourteen more bodies were recovered from the eastern districts where drones carried out direct strikes.
In Al-Qarara, two women and four children, including a mother and her three children, were killed when Israeli forces hit tents sheltering displaced people. At Nasser Medical Complex, five people were killed by Israeli fire as they collected food parcels from a humanitarian aid point southwest of Rafah.
On Sunday, Dr. Hamdi Al-Najjar, husband of paediatrician Dr. Alaa Al-Najjar, died from injuries he suffered in an Israeli airstrike on May 23 that had also killed nine of their children.
The Israeli military also claimed to have killed key Hamas military leaders, including Mohammed Al-Sinwar, Rafah Brigade commander Mohammed Shabana, and Khan Younis battalion leader Mahdi Kawara. The army accused them of playing major roles in planning the Oct. 7 attacks.
