IOF killed 195 journalists in Gaza since 2023: Media Office

By Al Mayadeen English
Source: Al Mayadeen
14 Dec 2024 19:46

The Gaza Government Media Office condemns the deliberate killing of journalists by Israeli occupation forces, calling on the international community for action.

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A stain of blood is seen among the rubble of a building hit by an Israeli airstrike that apparently targeted a municipal meeting in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, Palestine, on Dec. 14, 2024. (AP)

The number of journalists killed by "Israel" in Gaza since October 7 last year has risen to 195, following the killing of journalist Mohammad Jabr al-Qarinawi, an editor at Sanad News Agency, according to Gaza's Government Media Office.

The office condemned, in the strongest terms, the targeting, killing, and assassination of Palestinian journalists by the Israeli occupation and called on all countries worldwide to denounce these systematic crimes against Palestinian journalists and media workers in the Gaza Strip.

"We hold the Israeli occupation, the US administration, and the countries complicit in this crime of genocide, such as the United Kingdom, Germany, and France, fully responsible for committing this heinous, brutal crime," it asserted.

Gaza's Government Media Office urged the international community, international organizations, and entities related to journalism and media worldwide to condemn the crimes of the occupation, restrain it, and prosecute its perpetrators in international courts for their continuous crimes, further calling on them to exert serious and effective pressure to stop the genocide and the killing and assassination of Palestinian journalists.

In the same context, Al Mayadeen condemned the latest Israeli crime against journalists in the Gaza Strip and extended its sincerest condolences to the family of the martyred journalist, Mohammad Baalousha, a correspondent for Al Mashhad Media, as well as to the journalistic community in Gaza and Palestine as a whole.

Al Mayadeen expressed its solidarity with Al Mashhad Media and offered its deepest condolences to the channel's administration and staff, particularly its Director-General Mr. Tony Khalifeh.

It also called on the Arab and international journalistic community to speak up and take legal action to hold the Israeli occupation accountable for its ongoing crimes.

Israeli forces killed 18 journalists in Gaza in November

At least 18 Palestinian media workers were killed in November as a result of Israeli assaults on the Gaza Strip, highlighted a recent report by a Palestinian journalists’ rights group.

The report, issued by the Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA), indicated that the Israeli occupation is deliberately targeting journalists to suppress coverage of the war and its severe human rights violations.

According to MADA, Israeli forces committed 65 violations against journalists in the occupied West Bank and Gaza during the reported period. The report detailed that these violations included 22 incidents in the occupied West Bank and 43 in Gaza.

MADA emphasized that the Israeli assaults aim to “silence journalists and prevent them from documenting the ongoing events and atrocities for the global community.” The group further reported that Israeli airstrikes destroyed the homes of seven journalists in Gaza.