Al Jazeera Gaza correspondent Ismail Al Ghoul and camera operator Rami Al Refee were killed in an Israeli airstrike west of Gaza City on Wednesday, July 31, 2024.

Al Ghoul and Al Refee were covering the aftermath of the assassination of the senior Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, reporting from in front of Haniyeh’s home in Gaza an hour before they were killed. Al Jazeera said in its live coverage that Al Ghoul and Al Refee were leaving the scene after an Israeli order to evacuate the area when they were hit, and that it believes the journalists were deliberately targeted.

Al Ghoul was previously arrested by the Israeli Army at Al-Shifa hospital in northern Gaza. CPJ has documented the killing of at least seven journalists and media workers affiliated with Al Jazeera since the start of the Israel-Gaza war last October.