International News Safety Institute

24 August 2014

Abdullah Murtaja

Incident

Journalist dies of injuries from Gaza strike

Cause of death

Explosion

Details

Two other journalists were killed in the same airstrike in eastern Gaza City. Ashraf al-Qidra, a health ministry spokesman, said that Murtaja died of blood loss from the injury. Murtaja was a reporter for the al-Aqsa TV channel. Seventeen journalists have been killed since the beginning of the Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip. See the original article here.

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