A funeral for Palestinian journalists in Gaza on Nov. 19, 2023 (Ali Jadallah/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
Gaza (Quds News Network)- 182 Palestinian journalists have been killed in Israeli attacks since the start of the ongoing Israeli genocide war in Gaza on October 7, 2023, accoridng to Gaza’s Governmenr Media Office.
In a statement issued on Sunday, the Office condemned “the targeting, killing, and assassination of Palestinian journalists by the Israeli occupation,” holding it “fully responsible for committing this heinous crime and call on the international community and those involved in global journalism to deter the occupation and pursue it in international courts for its ongoing crimes.”
“We urge pressure to be applied to stop the genocide and the killing and assassination of Palestinian journalists.”
Israel’s war on Gaza has been considered the deadliest for journalists and media workers in the world in 30 years.
The International Federation of Journalists said the mortality rate for media workers in Gaza is over 10 percent.
Seventy-five percent of all reporters killed in the world in 2023 were killed between October 7 and the end of last year.
Critics accuse Israel – which banned foreign reporters from entering Gaza – of targeting journalists in the Palestinian territory to obscure the truth about its war crimes there.
CPJ has repeatedly documented Israel’s “pattern of smearing of Palestinian journalists with unsubstantiated ‘terrorist’ labels following their killings”.
“Deliberately targeting journalists is a war crime under international law. This attack must be independently investigated and the perpetrators must be held to account,” Programme Director at the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), Carlos Martinez de la Serna, said.
Source: qudsnen
