Who were the five journalists killed in Israel’s Gaza hospital attack?

Israel has been wide condemned for an onslaught its forces conducted connected Nasser Hospital successful confederate Gaza’s Khan Younis that killed astatine slightest 21 people, including 5 journalists, 1 of whom worked for Al Jazeera.

The onslaught connected Monday consisted of 2 strikes – oregon a ‘double tap’ – the 2nd of which was captured connected camera, showing journalists and rescuers connected a staircase being straight hit.

Israel has present killed much than 270 journalists and media workers successful Gaza since its warfare started successful October 2023. The journalists killed successful the Nasser Hospital onslaught were not adjacent each of those killed by Israel connected Monday – a sixth journalist, Hassan Douhan, who worked arsenic a analogous for Al-Hayat al-Jadida newspaper, was killed successful a abstracted incidental successful Khan Younis aboriginal connected Monday.

The journalists killed were portion of an progressively close-knit but dwindling media assemblage successful Gaza. They had already endured astir 2 years of war, which had affected not conscionable their enactment but besides their idiosyncratic lives.

Ahmed Abu Aziz

Palestinian writer Ahmed Abu Aziz, who was killed successful Israeli strikes connected Nasser Hospital successful confederate Gaza connected August 25, 2025, takes a selfie [Ahmed Abu Aziz via Facebook via Reuters]

Ahmed Abu Aziz, 29, was known among colleagues for his quiescent demeanour, humility and kindness.

Capable of penning and filming, Ahmed was well-respected among Gaza’s media community, and helium worked with a fig of outlets and organisations, including Middle East Eye, Quds Feed and the Independent Commission for Human Rights.

The trouble of travelling astir Gaza during the warfare did not halt Ahmed. He would often question agelong distances crossed the Gaza Strip connected ft to pursuit stories and papers Israeli warfare crimes against Palestinian civilians.

Ahmed joined successful July past twelvemonth and was besides pursuing a doctorate astatine the Institute of Press and Information Sciences successful Tunisia, which mourned his sidesplitting and condemned the targeting of journalists successful Gaza.

Hussam al-Masri

Palestinian cameraman Hussam al-Masri, who was a contractor for the Reuters quality agency, works astatine Nasser Hospital, wherever helium was killed connected August 25, 2025 [Reuters]

Hussam al-Masri, 49, was a photojournalist with Palestine TV and besides worked arsenic a contractor for the Reuters quality agency. Hussam operated a unrecorded video provender for Reuters from Nasser Hospital, which the quality bureau said “suddenly unopen down astatine the infinitesimal of the archetypal [Israeli] strike”.

Hussam’s dedication to his enactment came adjacent arsenic helium carried idiosyncratic burdens.

Writing connected Instagram aft Hussam had been killed, writer Amr Tabash recalled that days earlier, Hussam had asked him successful a breached voice: “Can you assistance maine evacuate my wife? Her unwellness is consuming her, and I tin nary longer carnivore to ticker her suffer.”

Amr described Hussam arsenic tireless successful helping others and said helium had been among the past to permission Nasser Hospital during an Israeli siege successful December. Amr asked that radical assistance Hussam’s woman present that helium is nary longer capable to.

“Hussam is gone, and his woman remains, warring crab alone, carrying treble the symptom aft losing her spouse and support,” Amr wrote. “For Hussam’s sake, for the ngo helium devoted his beingness to, and for his children, bash not fto his woman look decease successful silence.”

Mariam Abu Daqqa

Freelancer Mariam Abu Daqqa, 33, who worked for The Associated Press and different outlets during the Gaza war, successful Khan Younis connected June 14, 2024 [Jehad Alshrafi/AP Photo]

Mariam Abu Daqqa was a 33-year-old Palestinian writer and parent of a 13-year-old lad named Ghaith.

Out of fearfulness for Ghaith’s information during the war, Mariam sent him to unrecorded with his begetter successful the United Arab Emirates.

Mariam was a freelance lensman moving with respective planetary agencies, including The Associated Press, and contributed to Independent Arabia.

She was good known among her colleagues for her dedication and relentless thrust to papers the suffering of the Palestinian people. She stood connected the beforehand lines, among the journalists covering the warfare astatine Nasser Hospital successful Khan Younis, adjacent nether repeated Israeli assaults connected Gaza.

Mariam documented galore quality stories that revealed what Palestinians are enduring nether siege and bombardment.

Mariam was besides devoted to her family. She had antecedently donated 1 of her kidneys to prevention her father, who had kidney failure. But she could not prevention her mother, who died from crab 4 months agone owed to a deficiency of attraction disposable successful Gaza.

Mohammad Salama

Al Jazeera writer Mohammad Salama was killed successful Israeli strikes connected Nasser Hospital connected August 25, 2025 [Handout via Reuters]

Mohammad Salama was a 24-year-old photojournalist and cameraman with Al Jazeera successful Gaza. Born successful Abasan al-Kabira, eastbound of Khan Younis, helium grew up and studied successful the town’s schools.

He joined Al Jazeera arsenic a cameraman successful February 2024. He was known among his colleagues for his professionalism, dedication, cheerful grin and light-hearted spirit, adjacent successful the darkest circumstances.

Mohammad mislaid his parent successful puerility and lived with his begetter and relatives. In November – connected his day – helium got engaged to chap writer Hala Asfour, hoping to clasp a wedding erstwhile determination was a truce oregon ceasefire.

Mohammad studied astatine a vocational college, earning a diploma successful photography. From a young age, helium was passionate astir photojournalism, taking galore courses and shadowing seasoned journalists to hone his skills.

He was 1 of a fewer journalists near successful Khan Younis aft an Israeli cognition successful the metropolis successful December 2023, but helium was temporarily forced to permission the pursuing February erstwhile Israeli forces stormed Nasser Hospital, expelling displaced civilians, journalists and aesculapian teams astatine gunpoint.

He would aboriginal beryllium killed astatine the aforesaid hospital, the 10th Al Jazeera writer killed successful the war.

Moaz Abu Taha

Moaz Abu Taha worked with immoderate Palestinian and planetary outlets [AFP]

Moaz Abu Taha was a 27-year-old Palestinian freelance video journalist.

One of the younger procreation of photojournalists, Moaz documented the devastation of Gaza until his beingness was chopped abbreviated alongside his colleagues.

He was profoundly shaken by the sidesplitting of chap Al Jazeera writer Anas al-Sharif 2 weeks earlier, penning connected Facebook: “By God, our spot is gone.”

Moaz was known for his humour, kindness and humanity and often helped patients, the needy and children.

His brother, writer Adly Abu Taha, called him up aft proceeding astir the archetypal onslaught connected Nasser Hospital: “I called him immediately. He answered and said, ‘I’m fine, but Hussam al-Masri has been killed. I told him, ‘May God person mercy connected him,’ and begged him to leave.”

“He said, ‘I’ll conscionable decorativeness filming Hussam. Then I’ll go.’ Minutes later, different onslaught hit. I called again. His telephone was off. I rushed to the hospital, searched everywhere, adjacent successful the morgue, until I recovered him, without a head. I recognised him lone from his clothes.”