A 28-year-old Palestinian cameraman and reporter for the Cairo-based Arab TV network Al-Gad was killed on Sunday, the network said, attributing his death to an Israeli army strike.

“It is with heavy hearts that we announce that Al-Gad cameraman Yazan al-Zwaidi has been killed by Israeli fire” while he was “in the northern Gaza Strip,” the broadcaster announced via X (formerly Twitter), without giving further details.

Before the young cameraman and journalist, at least 82 other journalists and media professionals, the vast majority of them Palestinians, were killed after the Israel/Hamas war broke out on October 7, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).

Last Monday, the UN said it was “very concerned” about this “high toll”.

Last Tuesday, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) said for his part that crimes against journalists are included in his investigation into war crimes in the Gaza Strip.

Israel’s civil-military leadership has vowed to “annihilate” Hamas, the Islamist movement in power in the Gaza Strip, after its military arm launched an unprecedented attack on southern sectors of the Israeli territory that killed an estimated 1,140 people, mostly civilians, according to a count of AFP based on official announcements.

Israel’s military operations since then have killed at least 23,968 people, most of them women and children, according to the latest tally from the Hamas government’s health ministry.