Gaza (Quds News Network)- 183 Palestinian journalists have been killed in Israeli attacks since the start of the ongoing Israeli genocide war in Gaza on October 7, 2023, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office.
On November 1, journalist Bilal Rajab was killed in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a civilian gathering near Al-Fras Market, east of Gaza City. He is the latest journalist to lose his life in the ongoing Israeli assaults.
According to the Government Media Office, 182 Palestinian journalists have been killed since the beginning of the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza.
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 calling 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.
The Committee to Protect Journalists (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 CPJ, Carlos Martinez de la Serna, said.
Source: Qusnen
