Two separate Israeli attacks on Gaza Strip has killed two journalists making the total number of journalists killed ince October 2023 to 208, the Government Media Office (GMO) in Gaza confirmed.
One of the deceased was identified as Hossam Shabat, a journalist who worked for Al Jazeera Mubasher who passed away on Monday in northern Gaza after his car was targeted in the eastern part of Beit Lahiya.
Two separate Israeli attacks on Gaza Strip has killed two journalists making the total number of journalists killed ince October 2023 to 208, the Government Media Office (GMO) in Gaza confirmed.
One of the deceased was identified as Hossam Shabat, a journalist who worked for Al Jazeera Mubasher who passed away on Monday in northern Gaza after his car was targeted in the eastern part of Beit Lahiya.
The other journalist who lost his life was Mohammad Mansour, who worked for Palestine Today and he was reportedly inside his house with hsi family and they all were killed in an attack.
The Health Ministry in Gaza has announced that at least 50,082 Palestinians have been killed while 113,408 others were wounded in Israel라이브 바카라 war on Gaza since October 2023.
According to Al Jazeera, the 23-year-old Shabat was reporting from Deir el-Balah in central Gaza and had been previously wounded in another Israeli attack “but he insisted on continuing news reporting” in Gaza.
Al Jazeera reported that the Israeli military targeted Shabat's vehicle without giving “any prior warning”.
The attack on the other journalist took place in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza and reportedly the Israeli Army attacked while the Palestine Today journalist Mohammad Mansour was in his house "alongside his wife and his son” and this attack had also come without any prior warning.
The Government Media Office in Gaza issued a statement where they wrote, “strongly condemns the targeting, killing, and assassination of Palestinian journalists by the Israeli occupation” and called on press advocacy groups to denounce “these systematic crimes against Palestinian journalists and media professionals in Gaza”.
The GMO has also alleged that Israel and its main ally, the United States, as well as “the countries participating in the genocide, such as the United Kingdom, Germany, and France, fully responsible for committing this heinous crime”.
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has also condemned the killing of the two journalists and called for an independent investigation into the two attacks.
Jodie Ginsberg, the CPJ라이브 바카라 chief executive said, “The deliberate and targeted killing of a journalist, of a civilian, is a war crime.”
Ginsberg has also added that they are currently investigating other cases where it appears that Israel has 'deliberately' targeted a journalist, knowing them to be a media worker.
“That would amount to a war crime. Journalists and civilians must never be targeted”, she said.