Khan Younis Reporter among 10 dead after IDF airstrike on camp at hospital

An Israeli airstrike on a tent camp within a hospital complex in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis yesterday killed 10 people, including a journalist, while seriously injuring dozens more after their encampment caught fire.

- Ruth Michaelson

Images and video from the courtyard of Nasser hospital in Khan Younis showed people desperately attempting to extinguish fires as they 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 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 a 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 had been killed in the airstrike, with many more wounded. The ministry called Faqawi's death an act of "extrajudicial killing," labelling it part of growing crimes against journalists and an attempt to prevent the media from covering events on the ground.