Gaza journalist Heba al-Abadla and family killed in Israeli bombing of Khan Younis

Yet another Palestinian journalist has been killed in Israel’s war on Gaza, according to local media. 

Heba al-Abadla was killed on Tuesday in an Israeli airstrike on her home in Khan Younis, along with her daughter, mother, and maternal uncles, the Palestinian Information Centre reported.

The deaths of al-Abadla and her daughter Judy were also reported by the Palestinian Journalists' Syndicate.

The strike on the home was one of several by Israel in the area on Tuesday, the Palestinian outlet said. Around 55 people were killed in the attacks in total, it added.

Abadla is one of scores of journalists killed in Gaza since Israel began its war on the Palestinian territory on 7 October.

Before Abadla's death was reported, Gaza's Government Media Office said 110 journalists had been killed in Israel's ongoing indiscriminate war. They are among the more than 23,000 people killed in the three months of war.

Abadla's killing came just two days after journalists from pan-Arab news outlet Al Jazeera died in a targeted Israeli strike on a car in Rafah, southern Gaza.

Journalists Mustafa Abu Thuraya and Hamza al-Dahdouh, the son of Al Jazeera’s Gaza bureau chief Wael al-Dahdouh, were killed in the attack.

Wael al-Dahdouh had already lost several members of his immediate family to Israeli strikes, and was himself injured in such an attack last month.

Reports of Abadla's death came as the International Criminal Court (ICC) confirmed it would be conducting a probe into potential crimes against journalists in Gaza.

Israel has also detained Palestinian journalists, including the Gaza bureau chief of The New Arab's Arabic language sister site Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, Diaa al-Kahlout, who was released on Tuesday after weeks in detention.