31 October 2024 | CPJ
Palestinian freelance photographer killed by Israeli drone strike
Drone strike
Amr Abu Odeh, a 26-year-old Palestinian freelance photographer for Turkish state-owned Anadolu Agency and Reuters news agency was killed on October 31, 2024, by a strike from an Israeli drone that hit a group of civilians in the Al-Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City, according to the Beirut-based press freedom group SKeyes and news reports.
“We fled our home in the town of Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip to the Al-Shati refugee camp,” Yahya Abu Odeh, Amr’s brother, told CPJ. “On Thursday afternoon, an Israeli drone targeted a group of citizens in the camp, including Amr, which led to his immediate death.”
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