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Journalist Mohammed Saleh al-Bardawil with two of his three children. Published by IMEMC News
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by IMEMC News
April 1, 2025

Israeli forces assassinated another journalist on Tuesday before dawn, dropping a missile on his house and killing him, along with his family in Khan Younis, south of the Gaza Strip.

An Israeli drone bombed the home of journalist Mohammed Saleh al-Bardawil in the Japanese neighborhood west of Khan Younis, killing him, his wife, and his three children. He is the 209th journalist to be killed by Israel in its 18-month long genocide against the people of Gaza.

In its annual report, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said a record number of journalists were killed in 2024, with Israel responsible for more than 95% of those deaths.

The committee’s chief Jodie Ginsberg said in the statement, “The war in Gaza is unprecedented in its impact on journalists and demonstrates a major deterioration in global norms on protecting journalists in conflict zones, but it is far from the only place journalists are in danger.” At least 85 journalists died throughout 2024 at the hands of the Israeli military during Israel’s war on Gaza, the CPJ said, with 82 of those who were killed being Palestinians.

Also on Tuesday, a child died of wounds he sustained in an Israeli bombing in southern Gaza last Sunday.

Before dawn Tuesday, Israeli occupation forces opened heavy fire east of Gaza City and east of Jabalia, north of the Strip. Three civilians were injured in artillery shelling north of the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.

The Israeli occupation army issued new evacuation orders on Tuesday for citizens in large areas of the northern Gaza Strip. The Israeli military spokesperson issued a statement warning citizens in the northern Gaza Strip to evacuate their homes and “move to shelters,” although there are no shelters in the Gaza Strip.

The military order stated, “A new warning to all residents of the Gaza Strip in the areas of Beit Hanoun, Beit Lahia Project, Sheikh Zayed, and the neighborhoods of Al-Manshiya and Tel Al-Zaatar. This is a preliminary and final warning before the raid.”

This follows the forced removal of thousands of Palestinians from Rafah, in southern Gaza, a day earlier.

Since the resumption of the genocide in Gaza on March 18th, 1,042 civilians have been killed and 2,583 others injured, most of them children and women.

At least 322 Palestinian children have been killed in Israeli attacks since the resumption of Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza, with an average of approximately 100 children killed or maimed daily over the past 10 days, according to UNICEF, the UN agency for children.

The total death toll from the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip has risen to 50,399, and the number of injuries to 114,583, since October 7, 2023. This is likely a severe undercount, as many of those killed are still unaccounted for. 90% of the buildings in Gaza have been destroyed.