The particularly harrowing footage surfaced on social media during the night from Sunday, April 6, to Monday, April 7. It shows a man still alive, sitting on a chair, engulfed in flames, while screams of panic echo around him. The scene unfolds in the tent camp set up in the courtyard of Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, following an Israeli strike. "We had gone back to rest after covering the massacre perpetrated against the Al-Naffar family in central Khan Yunis when we were surprised by an explosion around 2:30 am. The Palestine Today tent was on fire," recounted journalist Bader Tabash, who took the video and was contacted by Le Monde on-site. Israel still prohibits foreign press from accessing the enclave.

The man burned alive was identified as Ahmed Mansour, a young journalist from Palestine Today, a news agency affiliated with the Islamic Jihad, an Islamist armed faction in Gaza. He succumbed to his injuries during the night from Monday to Tuesday, after being hospitalized in critical condition. Journalist Abed Chaat, who also appears in the video, recounted having his hand burned and losing consciousness while trying to save his colleague: "It was so difficult and painful to see him burning without being able to do anything."

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