Israeli forces in Gaza have killed Palestinian journalist Mahmoud Juhjouh along with his wife and children, local Palestinian media reported on Thursday.
Juhjouh was killed in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood of Gaza City, when a bomb struck his family home.
The journalist worked for the Palestine Post Network. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) says that at least 103 journalists have been killed in Israel's war on Gaza since 7 October, but Palestinian sources have given a higher figure of 145.
"The Palestine Post Network mourns our journalist colleague in Gaza, the martyr Mahmoud Jahjouh, who was killed with a number of his family members after the occupation bombed their home," the statement read.
According to reports, Jahjouh had been forcibly displaced several times due to Israeli bombardment, and had finally returned to his home after Israeli forces withdrew from areas in north Gaza.
Breaking: The Israeli army kills the journalist Mahmoud Juhjouh, his wife, and children by bombing their home in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in northwest Gaza City. pic.twitter.com/eY2LpDTmBE
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Online, tributes have poured in for the journalist, with some people calling his killing a "deliberate targeting of journalists" by the Israeli army.
Another social media user said that Israel targeted him as a journalist because "they don’t want the truth getting out."
The UN has raised concern over the “extraordinarily high numbers of journalists and media workers who have been killed, attacked, injured and detained” in recent months.
"We pay special tribute to the courage and resilience of journalists and media workers in Gaza who continue to put their own lives on the line every day in the course of duty, while also enduring enormous hardship and tragic loss of colleagues, friends and families in one of the bloodiest, most ruthless conflicts of our time," UN experts said in a statement.
Israel’s war on Gaza has killed over 35,200 people, mostly women and children, since 7 October and wounded over 79,000 others. The bombardment has devastated most of the Gaza Strip and destroyed the enclave’s infrastructure.
Around 1.4 million people displaced by the bombing are currently sheltering in Rafah, which Israel has started attacking.
