Palestinian journalist Ahmad Bdeir killed in Israel strike near Gaza hospital

Palestinian journalist Ahmad Bdeir was killed in an Israeli strike near a hospital in Gaza on Wednesday.

Bdeir, who was killed in the vicinity of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza, was working for Hadf News.

Press freedom group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said it "condemns the murder" of Bdeir, calling on the international community to "put pressure" on Israel to "stop the massacre of journalists" in Gaza.

The Gaza government media office said that 115 journalists have been killed in the Palestinian territory since Israel began its war on Gaza on 7 October. Israel's air and ground assault has so far killed more than 23,350 people in Gaza.

The UN human rights office said on Monday that it was "very concerned by [the] high death toll of media workers" in Gaza.

Journalist Heba al-Abadla was killed along with her daughter and other members of her family in Israeli bombing on Khan Younis earlier this week.

An Israeli strike in Rafah killed the journalists Mustafa Abu Thuraya and Hamza al-Dahdouh, the son of well-known reporter Wael al-Dahdouh, on Sunday.

Journalists are also being detained and beaten by Israeli forces.

Among them was Diaa al-Kahlout, the Gaza bureau chief for The New Arab's Arabic-language sister site Al-Araby Al-Jadeed. He was held by Israeli forces for a month before being released earlier this week.

Following his release he told Al-Araby Al-Jadeed that the Israeli army's treatment of him and other detained Palestinians was "indescribably tough and difficult".

He said he was subjected to beatings and torture several times, particularly by agents of the Shin Bet, Israel's internal security agency.

This included the "Shabah" technique – a torture method where prisoners are hung by their hands for hours or even days at a time.

Al-Kahlout said that he had spent 25 out of the 33 days of his detention forced to remain in a kneeling position, which caused him severe pain.