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Al Jazeera reporter Ahmed Wishah was killed on Saturday in the Gaza refugee camp in Bureij, weeks after his brother Mohammed Wishah, who also worked for the Doha-based Network, was killed in an Israeli bombing of his car.
Ahmed, in his mid-20s, is the 12th Al Jazeera journalist to be killed by Israel in Gaza, which has become the world’s worst threat to journalists. At least 260 Palestinian journalists have been killed since Israel launched the war in October 2023, according to the Committee to Protect journalists.
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Ahmed, who works as a cameraman for Al Jazeera’s Mubasher channel, was killed when an Israeli plane hit a building. Two more Palestinians have been killed in the attack as Israel continues its violence despite the October 2025 ceasefire.
Who was Ahmed and what has Israel said about his murder?
Here’s what we know:
Who was Ahmed?
Born in al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, Ahmed Samir Mohammed Wishah was the youngest of three brothers. He worked as a cameraman for Al Jazeera Mubasher.
Ahmed gained notoriety during Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip by accompanying and photographing his late brother, Al Jazeera journalist Mubasher Mohammed, who was killed on April 8 by Israeli shelling.
Together, they created a group of publications that documented the suffering of the Palestinian people and the events of the war.
In an interview after his brother’s death, Ahmed called on the world to stop killing journalists.
“Let the killing of Mohammed Wishah be the end of the killing of journalists. This is my message to the world. Someone stop the operation from targeting the journalists. This is our only message. Stop the operation of Israel from targeting the journalists,” Ahmed said in April.
Ahmed’s devotion to his brother extended beyond his journalistic pursuits.
After Muhammad’s death, he took care of his late brother’s children and took responsibility for the family.
What do his friends say about him?
Talal Mahmoud, a reporter for Al Jazeera Mubasher in Gaza, recalled his close friendships with the two brothers.
“I have known Ahmed since the beginning of the war. He was always there, accompanying his brother Mohammed in the tent where he lived,” said Mahmoud.
“Thinking about the work we did together, we often gathered in that tent at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital or Al-Awda Hospital in Nuseirat camp, discussing and discussing the details of our story.”
“He is not only my friend, but my friend from the same channel.
Mahmoud also recounted a painful story from a few days before Ahmed’s death.
“My last meeting with Ahmed was a few days ago when he told us that his mother wanted to prepare a meal in memory of her martyred brother Muhammad. She brought us Maftoul (traditional Palestinian food), and said, ‘This is from my mother, a merciful sacrifice for the life of my brother Muhammad.
“We ate until we were full, and we prayed from the bottom of our hearts that Muhammad would show us mercy and forgiveness,” Mahmoud reflected.
Mohammad Al-Akhras, a photojournalist working with CGTN, the English-language news channel of the China Global Television Network, remembers Ahmed as “a kind, gentle, and good-natured person who brought joy to his colleagues.”
“He worked with real passion, and his main goal in his story was to spread the message of the people and their suffering.”
He always talked about martyrdom and paradise. he can only reply, ‘My marriage will be in paradise.’ He got exactly what he asked for.”
“As journalists, we walk the path of martyrdom because Israel’s targeting of journalists has become routine,” Al-Akhras said.
“This work wants to kill the image, kill the truth, and hide the reality.”
‘The evil of Palestinian journalists who were killed’
In a statement to the AFP news agency on Saturday, a spokesman for the Israeli army said the same about Ahmed Wishah, accusing him, without providing evidence, of being a “Hamas terrorist”.
But in a statement, Al Jazeera dismissed the allegations as “baseless”, saying that the Israeli army had “spread lies” to its staff to “confess their crimes to Al Jazeera journalists and photographers in Gaza”.
“This attempt has not lied to anyone and cannot hide the truth that the world is seeing,” said the press, calling it “a bad plan”.
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has previously accused Israel of “humiliating Palestinian journalists who were killed”, the press freedom group says it wrote about Israel “calling journalists terrorists without producing credible evidence”.
In a statement on Saturday, Al Jazeera said it was determined to “take all legal steps to hold accountable” those who have committed “wrongs” against workers in Gaza.
It added that it remains committed to covering up what is happening in the region despite the Israeli military’s attempts to “suppress the truth”.
