Overview

• Masri, 49, was operating Reuters’ daily live feed from Nasser Hospital when he was hit, and his body and camera were found on an external stairwell.
• A second blast minutes later on the same stairs killed at least 19 people, including four other journalists and rescue workers, and wounded Reuters photographer Hatem Khaled.
• Israel’s military said the Reuters and Associated Press journalists were not a target, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described the event as a tragic mishap.
• The Committee to Protect Journalists reports 189 Palestinian journalists killed during the war and is urging the international community to hold Israel accountable.
• A Reuters contractor since May 2024, Masri ran the hospital live feed used globally and documented Gaza’s humanitarian crisis while displaced with his family and seeking cancer treatment for his wife.