Warning: This story contains details of a man who burns alive.
Nidaa Mansour was on her phone when she read a news report that an Israeli air raid had hit a tent that was used by local media in southern Gaza and broke out flames in the tent.
Today she hectically called her husband Ahmad Mansour, a journalist and editor at the Palestine news agency, who worked in the tent in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis at the time. She could not contact him, but found out that he had been taken to the hospital even though she was not aware of his illness.
This week the film material from Mansour, who seemed to show that he was devoured by flames, was widespread on social media when he remained sitting.
“Ahmad burned around the world,” said Nidaa on Tuesday at his funeral. “The whole world saw him when he was burning and nobody could help him.”
Online video -division -divided video showed that a man ran to Mansour to try to pull his leg to get him out, while others tried to use the small water that they had to equip and blanket the fire. People screamed from horror and unbelief when they saw his body consumed by the flame.
“Dear God”, a person screamed when he filmed.
CBC News recorded the film material and decided due to its graphic nature not to show it.
The 32 -year -old Ahmad was taken to the hospital in a critical condition due to the severe burns he had suffered. He died in the hospital a day later on Tuesday.
The journalist Helmi al-Faqawi was killed together with another man in the early morning hours of Monday in the Israeli air raid in the media tent, while nine further mansour were wounded. The media tent was in a connection in the Nasser Hospital.
The 28 -year -old Nidaa said she called her husband on Sunday evening and asked him to leave the area after hearing that there are air raids. He told her that he would go shortly before the attack took place.
“He didn’t return,” she said. “I called it often. But he didn’t pick up.”
Mansour leaves 3 children
When Nidaa arrived in the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, where Mansour was taken for treatment, she could not see him.
“I had (still) hope that he was still alive,” said Nidaa. When she was allowed to visit her husband, she said that his condition was very difficult to observe.
At his funeral on Tuesday, colleagues Mansour’s body, which was wrapped in a white light towel, wore on a medical stretcher with his blue flak jacket. His wife knelt next to his body, which recovered the Koran when dozens of others gathered around him, including his two sons aged 1 and 6 and a five -year -old daughter.
Nidaa Mansour said her husband Ahmad died after an Israeli strike aimed at a media tent in the early morning of Monday in the southern city of Khan Younis. The pictures of her husband, a journalist, devour widespread in a fire that broke out in the tent.
In a joint explanation on Monday, the Israeli defense staff (IDF) and the Israeli security authority (ISA) said that they had started an attack in this area on Hassan Abdel Fattah Mohammed Aslih (Eslayeh), in which he claimed that he was a member of Hamas’ Khan Younis Brigade, who was a journalist. They did not provide any evidence.
The explanation claims that he had documented and uploaded recordings of looting, arson and murder during the attacks on Israel led by Hamas on October 7, 2023.
CBC News checked ASLIH’s Instagram account, but found the contributions, but did not find. Ismail al-Thawabta, director of the Gaza government’s media office, said that Israel’s allegations against ASLIH were “wrong” and added that ASLIH had no political belonging.
Other journalists killed
The attack on the media tent was killed one day after the killing of Islam Meqdad, another journalist, together with her husband and child.
Mansur’s death on Tuesday increased the number of journalists who have been killed in Israel’s Gaza campaign since October 2023 to 211, according to the Palestinian journalist syndicate.
In a statement on Monday, the committee based in the USA condemned the attack to protect journalists (CPJ).
“This is not the first time that Israel is aiming for a tent protection journalist in Gaza. The failure of the international community to act these attacks on the press in order to continue with impunity, and the efforts to hold the perpetrators into account,” said Sara Qudah, regional director of CPJ Middle East and North Africa.
“CPJ urges the authorities to be evacuated immediately for treatment, the injuries of whom have suffered some serious burns and no longer attack the Gaza press corps destroyed on the ground.”
The IDF said that “numerous steps” before the attack was necessary to alleviate the damage to civilians, “including the use of precise ammunition, air surveillance and additional intelligence”.
A ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza broke off on March 18, after Israel had resumed air and floor attacks on the area torn by the war after a 42-day first phase of the agreement.
More than 50,000 Palestinians were killed in the Israeli offensive in Gaza, say Palestinian officials. According to the Palestinian civil defense, thousands will still be below the rubble.
Israel started his attack after thousands of armed men armed by Hamas had attacked the communities in South Israel on October 7, 2023, killed 1,200 people and, according to Israeli days, kidnapped 251 as hostages.
