In the Israel-Palestine war, Al Jazeera journalist Ahmad Baker Al-Ruhu (right) and three members of the Civil Defense were killed in an Israeli air strike in the Gaza Strip on December 15, 2024. Al-Ruhu was wearing a helmet and a waistcoat for the press. At the funeral held in Nuseirat, Gaza Strip, on December 16, mourners prayed in front of the body of the man who had been killed in the Israeli air strike the day before.
According to Al Jazeera, Ahmad Baker al-Ruhu, 39, was killed while documenting the rescue of family members injured in a previous explosion. According to a report published last week by the International Federation of Journalists, more than half of the 104 journalists and media workers killed in 2024 died in Gaza. Three members of the civil defense, including the local head of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, were also killed in the attack, according to a report from the hospital. The Hamas-run government oversees the civil defense, Gaza's main rescue organization. The Israeli military said the airstrike targeted Islamic Jihad and Hamas terrorists in a command center inside the civil defense headquarters. A journalist colleague in Gaza refuted al-Ruh's accusation of Islamic Jihad membership.
The Palestinian health ministry updated the death toll in the Gaza Strip to 45,028 on December 16. It warned that the real number of casualties was likely to be much higher, as 106,962 people had been injured since the war began and thousands of bodies were buried under the rubble in places where medics could not reach them. The ministry's figures do not distinguish between combatants and civilians, but women and children account for more than half of the dead. Without any evidence, the Israeli military claims to have killed more than 17,000 terrorists. The dead represent about 2% of Gaza's pre-war population of just over 2.3 million, the worst toll in the conflict between Israel and Hamas.
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