Qatar’s Al-Jazeera news television network strongly condemned last Wednesday night the death in the Gaza Strip of one of its journalists in an Israeli drone strike, calling it a “deliberate and targeted crime”.
Al-Jazeera “strongly condemns the heinous crime of targeting and killing Al-Jazeera Mubasser’s correspondent, Mohamed Whisha, by striking the vehicle he was riding in in the western part of the Gaza Strip,” the network said in a statement released.
The network holds “the Israeli occupation forces fully responsible” for his death and expressed confidence that it was “not an accidental act, but a deliberate and targeted crime aimed at intimidating journalists”.
The Israeli army, when contacted by Agence France-Presse, declined to comment on the bombing for now.
The non-governmental organization Reporters sans frontières (RSF), in an email received by the French Press Agency, condemned in turn the “murder” of Mohamed Whisa, who, it recalled, is “the second journalist killed by the Israeli army since the ceasefire began” on 10 October 2025, “after Amal Es Samali, a freelance journalist killed by a drone on 9 March 2026”.
“Their names were added to those of more than 200 journalists killed by the Israeli military in Gaza since October 2023, including at least 70 in the line of duty. We continue to demand justice for the journalists,” RSF continued, urging “the international community to act to end the ongoing impunity for the crimes committed by the Israeli army in the enclave, under an absolute blockade for over two and a half years.”
The “two martyrs, including Al Jazeera correspondent Mohamed Whisha”, were killed when “occupation forces car-bombed the Sheikh Ajlin area in the western sector of the Gaza Strip”, Mr. Basal.
Al Jazeera added Mohammad Wisha to the list of ten other journalists killed in the Gaza Strip after the October 7, 2023 attack launched by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas on the southern part of the Israeli territory, the trigger for the devastating war in the Gaza Strip.
Mohammed Salama, another Al Jazeera journalist, was killed in the enclave in August 2025, before the fragile US-sponsored ceasefire that ended, in theory at least, the Israel-Hamas war took effect.
Earlier that month, four other Qatari network employees and two associates were killed in an Israeli airstrike near the Shifa hospital that had sparked a wave of international outrage.
Israel continues to strike the Gaza Strip despite a ceasefire, targeting Hamas members, according to Israeli political and military leaders.
In its statement, Al-Jazeera insisted that it meant to take all necessary legal action to hold those responsible for the killings of its correspondents and staff in the Gaza Strip accountable and to “bring justice” for them and “all fallen journalists” in the Palestinian enclave.
