Colleagues, relatives and friends pray over the bodies of journalists Sari Mansour and Hassouna Esleem after they were killed in an Israeli bombardment at Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip on November 19, 2023. (Photo by NurPhoto)
Gaza City, July 24 (RHC)-- Gaza’s Government Media Office has reported that two more Palestinian journalists were killed in Israeli airstrikes, condemning the “systematic” targeting of media workers in the besieged territory.
In a statement on Wednesday, the media office confirmed that photojournalist Tamer al-Za’anin and editorial journalist Walaa al-Ja'bari were among the latest killed in Gaza. According to local media reports, al-Za'anin was killed by Israeli forces during a raid to kidnap Dr. Marwan al-Hams, the director of Gaza field hospitals, in the southern city of Khan Younis.
Meanwhile, Anadolu Agency cited medical sources as saying that Ja’bari was killed, along with her husband and four children and her unborn baby, in a strike on eastern Gaza City earlier in the day.
The media office “strongly” condemned the Israeli killing and targeting of Palestinian journalists, urging the International Federation of Journalists and the Federation of Arab Journalists and other journalism bodies to “condemn these systematic crimes against Palestinian journalists and media people in the Gaza Strip.”
According to the media office, the latest killings bring the number of Palestinian journalists killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 2023 to 231. Israel's bloody onslaught on Gaza has so far killed at least 59,219 Palestinians, mostly women and children.
[ SOURCE: PRESS TV and NEWS AGENCIES ]
