Khaberni - Palestinian press photographer Mahmoud Wadi was martyred in a drone strike targeting a group of photographers in the center of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, according to activists and journalists, on this Tuesday. Activists noted that the martyr Mahmoud Wadi was working as a "drone" photographer, pointing out that another photographer was injured due to the bombardment.
With Wadi's martyrdom, the number of martyrs from journalists and media workers killed by the Israeli occupation has risen to 256 since the beginning of the genocide war on the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, according to figures from the governmental media office. The office has previously repeatedly condemned "the targeting, killing, and assassination of Palestinian journalists in a systematic manner by the Israeli occupation." It has also called on more than one occasion for "the International Federation of Journalists, the Federation of Arab Journalists, and all journalistic bodies worldwide to condemn these systematic crimes against Palestinian journalists and media workers."
Since the beginning of the genocide war on October 7, 2023, the Israeli occupation forces have been destroying headquarters and offices of media institutions in Gaza, and have persistently targeted and killed Palestinian journalists, accusing them of terrorism, as part of a systematic policy aimed at silencing dissent and preventing the transmission of the truth about the Israeli crimes committed in the sector. Currently, Israel holds the global record for killing the highest number of journalists and media workers, having killed more of them in Gaza than in all the major wars in recent modern history combined, according to the Costs of War project at Brown University.
