Abed Chat to sleep on Sunday evening, exhausted after covering Israeli air strikes throughout the day.

The 33 -year -old independent photographer returned to a tent in front of Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis in southern Gaza, where he was headquartered with other journalists since the beginning of the Israeli war on Gaza.

Then, they were awake.

“I woke up to the sound of a huge explosion nearby.” “My colleagues and I immediately rushed from the tent. [I had] My mobile phone for photography.

“The strike directly hit the tent of journalists. I was terrified – to target journalists like this!”

Burning

The tent belonged to Palestine TV today.

“I started taking pictures from a distance, but with my approach to the burning tent, I saw one of my colleagues on the fire,” Chat said.

“I couldn’t continue filming. I don’t even know how courage called for approaching fire and trying to withdraw the burning person.

“The fire was intense. There was a gas box that had exploded, and another was burning. I tried to pull it out of his leg, but his pants were torn in my hand. I tried from another angle, but I could not.

“The fire grew very strong, I retreated, and I couldn’t bear it anymore. Then some men came with water to take out the fire.

“I suddenly felt weak … and I lost consciousness.”

The Israeli correspondent of the Palestine correspondent today, Hilmi Al -Faqi, burned to death with another man named Youssef Al -Khazir.

Journalists hasan eslaih, ahmed al-Agha, Muhammad Fayek, Abdallah Al-Attar, Ihab Al-Pardini and Mahmoud Awad Were also injred.

The Israeli army said in X that it launched the attack to seize Hassan Abdel -Fateh Muhammad Isleh (Esla), claiming that he was a member of Hamas who thought as a journalist.

Eslaih, a journalist who follows large social media, was severely injured in the strike. He was threatened several times by the Israeli authorities to cover an attack on Israeli Kibbutz during the Hamas -led attacks on southern Israel on October 7, 2023.

The Israeli army also said that it took steps to “reduce the opportunity to harm civilians”, but it did not clarify the reason for choosing a tent full of asleep journalists to arrest one of them.

“Nothing is new in … crimes against journalists.”

More than 200 journalists and media workers have been killed by Israeli forces since October 2023, according to the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate, making it the most bloody conflict of journalists.

The targeted tent was outside one of the largest hospitals in southern Gaza.

Journalists meet in hospitals from the beginning of the Israel war on Gaza, where they are looking for relatively fixed internet service, electricity and safety in the numbers. Local residents said that journalists were stationed and reported on Nasser Hospital throughout the conflict.

“We live, sleep and work there. We see each other more than we see our families,” Chat said. “What links us … is more than just a job.”

Al -Jazeera experts told September that Israel’s killing of journalists in Gaza offers offers A clear pattern to target journalists.

“There is nothing new in the Israeli occupation crimes against journalists,” Jad Shahrour, a spokesman for the Samir Casser Foundation, who monitors media in Beirut, told Al Jazerera.

“This is not the first time during this war, from October 7 to today, whether in Lebanon or Gaza, the Israeli army targeted the positions of journalists directly.

“This, of course, according to international law, is a war crime, and nothing justifies it.”

Among the other journalists who have been killed in Gaza since the beginning of the war is Al -Jazeera journalist Mobashir Hossam Shabat Al -Jazeera correspondent Hamza DahdouhThe son of the head of the Gaza Island office, Will, Dahda.

Both journalists were killed in targeted attacks on their cars, and Israel justified its actions by saying that they are part of the armed groups, but they did not provide evidence of these allegations.

Since October 7, 2023, Israel has killed at least 50,700 people in Gaza, most of them children or women, and therefore are not considered members of “terrorist groups” in the classification of Israel. Many civilian men – a group protected under international law – were also killed.

Representatives without the island’s borders told the Al -Jazeera that he was investigating the Monday’s attack.

Who is the next role?

Media rights organizations said that journalists in Gaza are walking with targets on their backs.

“Israel is deliberately exploding because it does not want anyone to reach the situation,” Shahrour said.

The groups said that the idea is to install the potential war crimes that Israel is committed to allowing Israel to avoid any accountability. The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate presented a press conference on Monday, which called for international accountability for Israeli crimes against journalists in Gaza.

Speaking to the island after returning from the Al -Qaeda funeral, Chat talked about the deep psychological scars left by the experiment.

“Until now, I don’t feel that I can go beyond what I saw. I have never imagined in my life that I will pull someone while shooting him.”

He kept slight burns on both hands while trying to rescue and now he cannot carry the camera.

“I feel completely paralyzed … … Who do we do this? Does anyone care? Is there something more shocking than this scene to move people?”

“This is not the first time that someone has burned to death, and it is not the first time that journalists have been targeted directly,” said Chat.

“We still don’t know who will be his next role.”