Dozens seriously injured as fire engulfs tents used by Palestinian journalists in hospital complex in Khan Younis
An Israeli airstrike on a tent camp within a hospital complex in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis has killed 10 people, including a journalist, while seriously injuring dozens more after their encampment caught fire.
Images and video from the courtyard of Nasser hospital in Khan Younis showed people desperately attempting to extinguish the fires as it burned through a row of tents. One video showed people screaming as a bystander attempted to move a burning piece of furniture, while a journalist, later identified as Ahmed Mansour of the news outlet Palestine Today, sat upright engulfed by the blaze.
His colleague Helmi al-Faqawi was killed in the strike, while at least nine other journalists were among the wounded. Mansour received treatment for severe burns while photographer Hassan Aslih was reportedly in a stable condition after suffering a head injury and cuts to his right hand.
The Palestinian foreign ministry in Ramallah said 10 people were killed in the airstrike with many more wounded in the blaze. The ministry called al-Faqawi’s death an act of “extra-judicial killing,” labelling it part of growing crimes against journalists and an attempt to prevent the media from covering events on the ground.
