Israeli attacks target, kill two renowned journalists in Gaza as death toll soars to 208

Two more Palestinian journalists have been killed in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip, taking the death toll among journalists to 208 since early October 2023, when the regime launched its all-out onslaught against the blockaded territory.

Gaza's Government Media Office announced in a statement that Hossam Shabat, a correspondent for the Qatar-based Al-Jazeera Mubasher television channel, was killed in an Israeli strike in northern Gaza on Monday.

Mohammed Mansour, a reporter for Palestine Today TV, also lost his life in another aerial raid that struck his apartment in the southern city of Khan Younis. His wife and child were also killed in the attack.

The media office condemned the targeting, killing, and assassination of Palestinian journalists by the occupying Israeli regime.

It called on the International Federation of Journalists, the Arab Journalists Union, and all relevant bodies worldwide to denounce such systematic crimes against Palestinian journalists and media workers in the Gaza Strip.

Gaza's Government Media Office held Israel, the US and their allies, including Britain, Germany, and France, fully responsible for the unfolding brutal and heinous crimes being committed in the besieged coastal territory.

It appealed to the international community and journalism organizations to censure Israeli crimes, deter them, take them to international courts, and bring criminal Israeli authorities to justice.  

Female Palestinian journalist reporting from Gaza’s Indonesian Hospital killed in Israeli attack

A female Palestinian journalist who reported from Indonesian Hospital has been killed in an Israeli attack in the Gaza Strip.

“We also call on them to exert serious and effective pressure to stop the genocide, protect journalists and media workers in the Gaza Strip, and halt the crime of killing and assassinating them,” the media office pointed out.

For its part, the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate stated that the Zionist regime is committing a new massacre against journalists, and the targeted killings of Mohammed Mansour and Hossam Shabbat is a crime added to the record of Israeli terrorism.

Journalists working within the Palestinian territory have encountered enormous risks while covering the genocidal war, particularly in light of Israeli ground assaults and airstrikes, as well as challenges such as disrupted communications, shortages of supplies, and power outages.

In the face of such difficulties, Palestinian journalists persisted in documenting the atrocities of the war, acting as the global community's eyes and ears throughout one of the most deadly wars of the 21st century.

Backed by the United States and its Western allies, Israel launched the war on Gaza on October 7, 2023, after the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas carried out Operation Al-Aqsa Flood against the Israeli regime in response to its decades-long campaign of oppression against Palestinians.

The regime’s bloody onslaught on Gaza has so far killed at least 50,082 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injured 113,408 others. Thousands more are also missing and presumed dead under rubble.

On November 21, 2024, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former minister of military affairs Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.

Israel also faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for its deadly war on the blockaded coastal sliver.

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