Family and friens mourn over the bodies of Palestine Today journalist Mohammad Mansour (L) and Hossam Shabat (R), a 23-year-old Al Jazeera journalist, who were killed by Israeli army on March 24, 2025 in Gaza Strip, Palestinian territories.

Israeli forces separately killed two Palestinian journalists in Gaza within hours of each other on Monday, including an Al Jazeera correspondent who had prewritten his final words to be released after his death.

The Israeli military first killed Palestine Today correspondent Mohammed Mansour in Khan Younis, along with his wife and son, in an airstrike. All three were in their house in southern Gaza when the strike hit, according to Al Jazeera.

Many of Gaza’s surviving journalists shared posts on social media mourning Mansour, including Al Jazeera Mubasher correspondent Hossam Shabat. Less than an hour after reporting on Mansour’s death, Shabat himself was killed in northern Gaza.

“Hossam was not just a brother or a passing journalist, but a pure soul walking the earth, an influential journalist and a symbol of northern Gaza,” said Al Jazeera journalist Anas Al-Sharif, who posted several graphic clipson X showing the immediate aftermath of the attack on his 24-year-old friend and colleague. Shabat’s dead body can be seen on the ground by his car near Beit Lahiya.

Anticipating his death as a prominent Palestinian journalist, Shabat had composed final words to be published........

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