IOF killed 10 Palestinian journalists in Dec.: Journalists Syndicate

By Al Mayadeen English
Source: Agencies + Al Mayadeen
5 Jan 2025 11:44
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The syndicate’s Freedoms Committee noted that the Israeli occupation forces committed 84 violations, attacks, and crimes against Palestinian journalists last month.

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A relative mourns over the body of one of the five Palestinian journalists who were killed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City at the Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah, Thursday, Dec. 26, 2024 (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Israeli occupation forces carried out demolitions of residential buildings in the southern and northern areas of Gaza City, Al Mayadeen's correspondent in Gaza reported on Sunday.

Our correspondent added that Israeli artillery shelling targeted areas in the northwest of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.

In parallel, the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate confirmed that the Israeli occupation continues its systematic targeting of Palestinian journalists, even committing massacres against them, as evidenced by the execution of 10 journalists last December.

In a press statement issued on Saturday, the syndicate’s Freedoms Committee noted that the Israeli occupation forces committed 84 violations, attacks, and crimes against Palestinian journalists last month.

The most prominent occurred in Gaza, where 10 journalists were killed, including five in a brutal massacre while inside a live broadcast vehicle, the statement said.

It added that eight family members of journalists were killed, three journalists’ homes were destroyed, and five journalists sustained severe injuries from shrapnel and gunfire.

The Freedoms Committee documented the detention and prevention of coverage for approximately 20 journalists and crews, the arrest of seven journalists, and gunfire directed at journalists in 11 incidents.

Additionally, 10 journalists were brutally beaten, and three cases involving the destruction and seizing of work equipment were reported in both the West Bank and Gaza.

The statement emphasized that journalists faced numerous forms of aggression, including direct threats with weapons, exposure to toxic tear gas, unjust trials, financial penalties, travel bans, interrogations, and attempted vehicular assaults.

In a statement issued on January 3, the Gaza Government Media Office reported that the number of journalists killed at the hands of the Israeli occupation military in Gaza since October 7, 2023, has reached 202.