Mohamed Salama, who started working with MEE shortly after Israel launched its genocidal campaign in Gaza, also contributed for several other media outlets in a freelance capacity, most notably Al Jazeera Arabic and Al Jazeera Mubasher. He was killed, along with four other journalists and at least 15 other people, as a result of an Israeli double-tap strike on the Nasser Hospital, southern Gaza on 25 August 2025.