Palestine TV accuses Israel of committing a “deliberate assassination” of Mohammed Abu Hatab and his family.
An Israeli airstrike killed a journalist working for the Palestinian Authority television channel and ten members of his family, according to the channel.
Palestinian television accused Israel of committing a “deliberate assassination” of Mohammed Abu Hatab by bombing his family home in Khan Younis, Gaza, in the south of the territory on Thursday.
“Our colleague Mohammed Abu Hatab was martyred along with his family members in an Israeli bombing of his house in Khan Younis,” the TV channel said in a statement carried by the Palestinian Wafa news agency.
Sources at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis said at least 11 people were killed in the strike.
The statement said an airstrike hit Abu Hatab’s apartment shortly after his arrival.
He claimed that the attack “is a bloody message aimed at terrorizing Palestinian journalists”, intended to prevent them from “transmitting the suffering of the Palestinian people and denouncing the crimes of the occupation”.
The channel said it would continue to fulfill its duty “regardless of the scale of the sacrifices and regardless of the crimes that the occupying state commits against our journalists.”
Dozens of journalists killed
The Palestinian Journalists’ Union says 27 of its members have been killed in Gaza since October 7.
Local and international media representatives in Gaza worked from offices in Gaza City. However, intense Israeli bombardment, which destroyed many buildings, forced news agencies to send their teams to the south of the enclave, even as Israeli airstrikes hit targets throughout the territory.
The conflict raged Friday for the 28th day after the Oct. 7 attacks, when Hamas fighters stormed the border, killing 1,400 people and capturing more than 240, according to Israeli officials.
Since then, Israel has relentlessly bombed the Palestinian territory and sent in ground troops, with Gaza’s health ministry saying 9,061 people have been killed, including 3,760 children.
