At just after 10 am on Monday, August 25, standing on a balcony at Nasser Hospital in near 30-degree heat, Hussam al-Masri panned his camera right across the landscape of Khan Yunis in a livestream for Reuters. The cameraman shifted his gear slightly to the right of a large wooden support beam to zoom in on a column of smoke in the distance, the result of one of the many daily Israeli strikes to hit the strip. Within minutes, around 10.09 am, with the camera locked on the now dissipating smoke, the feed went black. While trying to document another…

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