Israel killed 219 Palestinian journalists in Gaza in 19 months
Palestinian officials say Israeli forces have killed at least 219 journalists and media workers since the regime’s genocidal war started in the Gaza Strip more than 19 months ago.
The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate said on Sunday that the Israeli regime was pressing ahead with its systematic policy of targeting and killing journalists to prevent truthful coverage of its war crimes.
The Syndicate said there are at least thirty female journalists among those killed by Israeli forces, and one who was killed in the occupied West Bank.
It noted that the regime’s forces also target Palestinian journalists’ families, and have killed more than 680 members of their families so far.
Israel has also been targeting media institutions in its war of extermination, destroying 115 institutions in Gaza.
Earlier on Sunday, the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas said Israel’s latest “simultaneous deliberate” strikes against Palestinian journalists are part of “its ongoing persecution and killing” of media members.
At least five more Palestinian journalists were killed in Israeli strikes in Gaza, as the regime keeps targeting media people covering its crimes in the strip.
Hamas named the slain journalists as Aziz al-Hajjar, Nour Qandil, Abdul Rahman al-Abadlah, Khaled Abu Saif, and Ahmed al-Zinati.
“Their homes and tents were bombed at dawn today, leading to their martyrdom, along with their children and families, in a complex crime that embodies the brutality of this fascist entity,” the group said in a statement
This brings the number of Palestinian journalists killed since the start of the Israeli assault on Gaza on October 7, 2023, to at least 219 journalists, many of whom were killed with their families in their homes or while reporting on the ground.
The killing has turned the month of May, which marks World Press Freedom Day, into a graveyard for journalists in Gaza.
At least 125 Palestinians, including many children, fell victim to the latest wave of strikes across the besieged strip.
The total death toll from the regime’s genocide since October 2023 has now exceeded 53,300, with over 121,000 others wounded.
