10 January 2025 | CPJ
Saed Abu Nabhan shot dead by Israeli sniper while reporting
Shooting
Saed Abu Nabhan, a 25-year-old freelance camera operator and photographer who worked with Al-Ghad TV and Anadolu Agency, was shot dead by an Israeli sniper while reporting on January 10, 2025, in Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, according to multiple news reports.
Khamis Al-Rifi, a witness who freelances for the broadcaster Al Jazeera and Reuters news agency, told CPJ, that Al-Awda Hospital in Nuseirat camp started receiving emergency calls to help injured people after an Israeli attack.
“Given our presence at the press coverage point next to the hospital, we headed there with the ambulances at five in the evening. While the wounded were being pulled out of the area, an Israeli soldier fired a single bullet from a place we could not see. The bullet penetrated Saed’s chest and exited his back,” Al-Rifi said.
“One of the young men tried to pull him out, but he couldn’t because he was within range of the soldiers, who were apparently about 50 meters away from us. Unfortunately, he was martyred on the spot. After about 20 minutes, the young men managed to pull him out under Israeli tank fire,” Al-Rifi said.
A video shot by Al-Rifi showed Abu Nabhan running from gunfire with other people then falling to the ground saying, “Oh God, I was hit.” Other news videos showed journalists wheeling his body into the hospital on a stretcher.
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