Another Palestinian Journalist Killed as Israeli Attack Continues to Target Journalists
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21 July 2024 22:35 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Another Palestinian journalist was killed on Sunday, July 21, 2024, in an Israeli attack in the central Gaza Strip, bringing the death toll to 162 since October 7, 2023, Anadolu Agency reported.
Medical sources at Al-Awda Hospital in the central Gaza Strip told Anadolu Agency that Israeli soldiers targeted the Ghorab family home north of Nuseirat camp in central Gaza.
The Israeli attack killed journalist Moatasem Ghorab and four members of her family, including two daughters, bringing the number of Palestinian journalists killed in Gaza since October 7 to 162, sources said.
Previously, on Tuesday, July 16, 2024, Mohammad Meshmesh, program director at Al-Aqsa Voice Radio was reportedly killed in an Israeli attack.
In a press statement, the media office said: “The number of journalist martyrs has risen to 160 since the start of the genocidal war in the Gaza Strip, following the martyrdom of our colleague Mohammad Abdullah Meshmesh, Program Director of Al-Aqsa Voice Radio.”
Meshmesh was martyred in the Israeli massacre targeting Al-Razi School in Nuseirat camp, central Gaza, which resulted in 23 martyrs and dozens injured.
The Israel-Gaza war has taken an unprecedented toll on Gaza journalists since Israel declared war on Hamas following its attack on Israel on October 7, 2023.
Meanwhile, on July 19, 2024, a preliminary investigation by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) showed at least 108 journalists and media workers were among the more than 39,000 people killed since the war began, making it the deadliest period for journalists since CPJ began collecting data in 1992.
Journalists in Gaza face particularly high risks when they try to cover the conflict during Israel's ground offensive, including devastating Israeli airstrikes, disrupted communications, supply shortages, and widespread power outages. This makes it increasingly difficult to document the situation, and CPJ is investigating nearly 350 additional cases of potential killings, arrests, and injuries.
“Since the war in Gaza began, journalists have paid the ultimate price - their lives - for their reporting. Without protection, equipment, an international presence, communications, or food and water, they are still doing their important work to tell the world the truth,” said CPJ Program Director Carlos Martinez de la Serna in New York.
“Every time a journalist is killed, injured, arrested, or forced into exile, we lose pieces of the truth. Those responsible for these casualties face two trials: one under international law and one before an unforgiving history.”
