‘I cannot imagine our coverage without him’: Read tributes to MEE Gaza correspondent

Just before his death, photojournalist Mohammed Salama had bought a new camera.

In October 2023, with the onset of Israel’s onslaught on Gaza, Salama was just starting, recording footage on an iPhone mounted on a gimbal.

He was one of the first Palestinian journalists documenting the genocide to publish his reports on TikTok.

Fiercely ambitious and committed to documenting the situation on the ground, he did not stop. 

On Monday, he was killed in a “double-tap” Israeli strike on Khan Younis’ Nasser Hospital along with five other colleagues, including fellow MEE contributor, Ahmed Abu Aziz. They are among at least 270 Palestinian journalists killed by Israel in Gaza since October 2023.

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