27 October 2024 | CPJ
Palestinian journalist Haneen Baroud killed in Israeli airstrike
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Haneen Baroud, a Palestinian journalist and freelance video editor who contributed to the Al Majedat Media Network, was killed alongside eight others in an Israeli airstrike on a school sheltering displaced Palestinian families in Gaza City’s Shati camp on October 27, 2024.
The airstrike also killed Saed Radwan, a reporter with Al-Aqsa TV, and freelance journalist Nadia Emad Al Sayed.
Emad Al Sayed’s husband, Muhammad Masoud, told CPJ they were surprised when Israel began bombing the school around 1:15 p.m., including one of the classrooms they turned into a makeshift newsroom.
The head of the programs department at Al-Aqsa Radio, Ahmed Zughbour, told CPJ that “the strike was direct to the classroom they were in. to the point that our colleague Saed was shattered into pieces, and our colleague Nadia was also difficult to recognize at first.”
Baroud’s four brothers were killed during the war, according to a feature about her published posthumously by the pro-Hamas newspaper Felesteen.
CPJ emailed the IDF’s North America Desk inquiring whether it knew that civilians and journalists were in the school when Israeli forces bombed it but did not immediately receive any response.
