Mohammed Wishah

Mohammed Wishah — also spelled Washah — was a Palestinian journalist born in 1986 in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza. He joined Al Jazeera Mubasher as a correspondent in 2018 and became one of the steadier hands in its Gaza team, the one younger colleagues went to for guidance during the war. Before his death, Israel had run an incitement campaign accusing him without evidence of being a Hamas operative, following the same pattern used against Anas al-Sharif, Hossam Shabat, and Mohammed Qreiqeh; the campaign forced him to stay away from his family, sleeping in tents alongside other reporters near al-Shifa Hospital. On 8 April 2026, nearly six months into a US-brokered ceasefire, an Israeli drone struck the car he was travelling in on al-Rashid Street, the coastal road west of Gaza City, as he was driving south toward home. The car burst into flames and he was declared dead at the scene. He was the twelfth Al Jazeera journalist or media worker killed by Israeli forces in Gaza since October 2023.