On 10 August 2025, Al Jazeera correspondent Mohammed Qreiqeh was killed when Israeli forces bombed the journalists’ tent near Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza. It was the same place where, in March 2024, he had lost his mother, Na’ma, shot dead by an Israeli sniper during the siege of the hospital. For Mohammed, that site had always been a wound that never healed, a reminder of personal loss entwined with his professional mission.

Born in 1992 in Gaza’s Shuja’iyya neighbourhood, Qreiqeh pursued journalism as a calling shaped by hardship and resilience. He began as a freelancer before joining Al Jazeera in August 2024, shortly after the killing of his colleague Ismail Al-Ghoul. Carrying forward the torch, he became known for giving voice to ordinary people, mothers, children, and families struggling through displacement and bombardment. His reports were not just news segments but deeply human testimonies that transformed pain into words and images.

Hours before his death, Qreiqeh had spoken on camera about the endless journeys of displacement endured by Gazans, ending with words that sounded like a farewell: “Nothing will happen except what Allah has written.” His killing silenced one of Gaza’s most powerful journalistic voices, yet his legacy endures as proof that in Gaza, journalism is more than a profession, it is resistance, memory, and witness before history.