Mohammed Balousha

Their life

Mohammed Balousha, a 38-year-old Palestinian journalist and a reporter for the Emirati-owned Dubai-based Al Mashhad Media was killed in an Israeli drone strike when he was returning from a medical checkup at the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood clinic in northern Gaza City, on December 14, 2024, according to the outlet and multiple news reports.

Mohammed Balousha, a 38-year-old Palestinian journalist and a reporter for the Emirati-owned Dubai-based Al Mashhad Media was killed in an Israeli drone strike when he was returning from a medical checkup at the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood clinic in northern Gaza City, on December 14, 2024, according to the outlet and multiple news reports.

Al Mashhad TV, as well as Balousha’s wife and a friend who witnessed the attack, said they believe the strike was targeted.

Balousha’s friend and neighbor, Abdul Karim Kalloup, told CPJ that he’d accompanied Balousha to the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood clinic for a medical check-up following a December 2023 Israeli shooting that left him with two gunshot wounds.

They were on their way home about 11 a.m., crossing the street leading to Balousha’s house while taking their usual precaution of keeping a distance of several yards between them “out of fear of being targeted en masse by Israeli drones with bullets, missiles, or bombs,” when Balousha was killed. “About 700 meters (about 770 yards) before he reached his house, an Israeli drone struck him directly,” said Kalloup.

How they died

Killed by drone strike in Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, Gaza City, Israel

Why we remember them

This record exists so that Mohammed Balousha, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.

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