Safinaz Al-Louh was injured during the airstrike on the tents od displaced people and Press, in the courtyard of the Al-Aqsa Hospital, in Deir al-Balah, on the night of October 14.

It's not the first time Safinaz al-Louh was targeted by Israeli forces because she is a journalist.

• Israeli occupation forces wounded the journalist Safinaz Al-Louh by a rubber bullet in the head during the Great Return March, East of al-Bureij refugee camp in the middle of the Gaza Strip
• Se was the subject of a campaign to discredit it in December 2024, when a report criticizing Gaza traders for their pricing policies was hijacked by Israel on social media as if it were criticizing Hamas.
• She is related to journalist Mummamad Al-Louh and their family was particularly targeted: her sister, niece, uncle, homes and even family graves were targeted throughout the war by Israeli airstrikes.

Gaza’s Female Journalists in Israeli Line of Fire This article from March 22, 2024, pictured this well known Palestinian journalist.

*(AWP) - Palestinian press correspondent Safinaz al-Louh faces hardship covering Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip, now ongoing for more than five months, but is determined to continue her work in the field.

Safinaz lives in a tent inside a shelter center in the southern Gaza city of Rafah. Since day one of the war, she has witnessed its agonizing developments, like other Palestinian female journalists, who have taken it upon themselves to broadcast them to the world at large.

“As journalists, especially as female journalists, we have been displaced from our homes, which were destroyed by the Israeli occupation warplanes. We came to shelter centers, whether in hospitals or elsewhere. We have worked since the first moment of this aggression, and covered this genocidal war on the Gaza Strip," said Safinaz.

“There are no set times for our daily work on this coverage. We work any time, even during the late hours of dawn, or at night, when there are raids waged by the occupation’s warplanes. We keep reporting about the shelling that takes place in the areas we cover,” she added. The young reporter recounted some of the tough experiences she has been through while covering the war, which broke out on October 7, 2023 and has left more than 31,000 Palestinians dead so far.

“We suffer from the occupation’s terrorism. We have repeatedly seen the dead bodies of martyrs, and others with limbs mutilated in attacks by the Israeli occupation warplanes, with their lethal missiles, on the Gaza Strip,” she said. The Palestinian journalist elaborated on the hazards and difficulties involved in her work, even away from the field, as she covers the incidents in the enclave.

“During this aggression, we have undergone many violations, difficulties and troubles, including the assassination of fellow journalists, the devastation of our houses, repeated injuries, and attacks by the occupation’s drones," Safinaz indicated.

“We are being targeted in the field, and even on social media, to prevent us from sending our voices out to the world and publicizing the massacres and terrorism perpetrated by the Israeli occupation against our Palestinian people,” she added.*

Around [1:30 am] an Israeli airstrike targeted displacement tents in the courtyard of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah. The hospital is inside the "humanitarian zone" as per Israel's official communication. Specifically in block 128.

The strike caused a large fire to erupt which burned alive the people inside, as seen in multiple footage. The fire caused other items to explode minutes later including gas cylinders.

The fire grew near press tents. Journalist Safinaz Al-Louh was injured. This was the third time press tents in the hospital couryard was targeted in 6 months.

A young man was seen burning alive. He was identified as Shaaban Al-Dalo who survived an Israeli massacre the week before when the hospital's mosque was bombed by Israel. His mother Alaa was murdered alongside him in the fire. Shaaban was a 19 years-old software engineering freshman, and a Hafiz (memorizer of the Quran). Israel destroyed his home and university before forcibly displacing him earlier last year, and ultimately murdering him.

Israeli government spokesperson David Mencer commented on LBC about people being burnt alive as a Pallywood fabrication.

Casualties :

Preliminary report of casualties: 4 killed and 40 wounded

Names of the martyrs (identified):

1. Shaaban Ahmed Al-Dalo
2. Alaa Abdunasser Al-Dalo (Shaaban's mother)
3. Abdurrahman Al-Dalo (child, Shaaban's brother, succumbed to injuries on October 18)
4. Farah Al-Dalo (Shaaban's sister, succumbed to injuries on October 21)
5. Osama Saeed Kaloub
6. Siraj Aliwa

Testimony of Al Jazeera correspondent Hani Mahmoud present on site

"It is an extreme fire that keeps spreading. Civil Defence members had to be called and dispatched from other areas in central Gaza after working all day long in the Bureij refugee camp,so for an hour, there were no rescue crews at the hospital.

Someone inside the hospital described loud explosions and the fire spread right away because of what looks like incendiary bombs being used. The fact that these tents are made of plastic, nylon and pieces of wood makes the fire spread quickly as well.

We’re talking about 20 to 30 tents that have been completely destroyed, completely burned down. There were many people inside the tents as the fire spread who were not saved.

The report that I’m receiving right now is that the fire is still spreading and the situation is quite chaotic. We’re looking at the large number [of deaths] as these tents are close to each other, back-to-back and set up in a small space inside the hospital courtyard."