GAZA, June 6, 2025 (WAFA) – A Palestinian photographer on Friday morning succumbed to his wounds sustained in Israeli bombing on al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza City.
Ahmed Qaljah, a photographer who worked for Al-Arabiya TV, died of his wounds he had sustained in Israeli strikes that targeted a group of media workers in Gaza City's al-Ahli Arab hospital's courtyard on Thursday morning.
The attack claimed the lives of correspondent Suleiman Hajjaj and photographer Ismail Badah, who both worked for Palestine Today TV, alongside photographer Samir al-Rifai, who worked for the Shams News Agency.
It resulted in the injuring of four others, namely Qaljah, who died this morning, Emad Dalou, Islam Badr, and Mahmoud al-Ghazi, with their injuries described as moderate to critical.
Israel unilaterally ended the Gaza ceasefire agreement and resumed its aggression on the Strip on Tuesday, March 18, carrying out a wave of bloody airstrikes across the Strip and killing hundreds of Palestinians, including over 100 children.
The death toll reached at least 4,402 with 13,489 others wounded, according to medical sources. Emergency teams are attempting to recover victims still trapped beneath the rubble.
In the last 24 hours, the bodies of 70 slain Palestinians, including three bodies retrieved from the rubble, and 189 casualties were admitted to hospitals in the Strip, noting that these numbers exclude the fatalities and casualties in the northern Strip due to inaccessibility.
The aggression was resumed amidst concerns over the deterioration of the humanitarian situation in the Strip given the ongoing siege and ban on the entry of medical and humanitarian aid.
Israel has waged a military onslaught on the Strip since October 2023, killing at least 54,677 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injuring 125,530 others.
Moreover, at least 10,000 people are unaccounted for, presumed dead under the rubble of their homes throughout the Strip.
The Israeli aggression has also resulted in the forceful displacement of nearly two million people from all over the Gaza Strip, with the vast majority of the displaced forced into the densely crowded southern city of Rafah near the border with Egypt – in what has become Palestine’s largest mass exodus since the 1948 Nakba.
K.F.
