Israeli forces injured one of the only journalists left in north Gaza on Tuesday in an airstrike, after the military publicly threatened the Al Jazeera reporter with assassination in October.

The journalist, Hossam Shabat, said that he was “deliberately targeted” by Israeli forces when they carried out a seeming double tap strike — an illegal practice under international law — on a house late Tuesday night. Shabat was injured in the strike, but has already resumed reporting, pledging to continue his journalism.

The 23-year-old journalist had traveled to the site of a nearby strike on a house in order to report when he was caught by the blast.

“Upon arriving at the house packed with terrified people, I could hear their desperate screams for help from the second floor,” Shabat recounted on a post on social media.

“The moment I stepped inside, the house was bombed again, and dismembered body parts of the wounded flew around me,” Shabat said. “Rubble crashed down on me and my colleagues; One first responder was killed, and while my colleague and I were injured, many others did not survive.”

Shabat is one of six Palestinians that Israeli forces included on a list of some of the only journalists left reporting in north Gaza in late October. Israeli forces had, without evidence, accused the Al Jazeera journalists on the list of being affiliated with “Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorist” groups — an accusation that laid the groundwork for Israeli forces to target them. The list constituted a clear “assassination threat” against the media workers, Shabat and others noted.

Al Jazeera Media Network rejected the Israeli military’s accusations, saying they were a “blatant attempt to silence the few remaining........

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