Mohammed Balousha
Killed by drone strike in Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, Gaza City, Israel
Killed by drone strike in Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, Gaza City, Israel
Biography
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.
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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.1 cpj.org Open source
The correspondent for the Emirati channel Al-Mashhad was injured for the first time on 16 December 2023 when he was hit by Israeli sniper fire while reporting from the northern Gaza Strip. The previous month, in November 2023, the 38-year-old journalist had revealed the existence of decomposing infant bodies in Gaza's al-Nasr hospital, which had been emptied of its staff by the Israeli army. Mohamed Balousha was fatally wounded by a targeted drone strike in Ahmed Yassin Street, according to RSF’s information, nearly a year later, on 14 December 2024, as he was reporting in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in the north of the Gaza Strip.2 rsf.org Open source