10/6/2024–|Last updated: 10/6/202405:49 PM (Mecca time)
The number of journalist martyrs as a result of the ongoing Israeli aggression on Gaza has risen to 150 since last October 7, following the martyrdom of 3 journalists due to Israeli targets.
The government media office in Gaza said that the number of journalist martyrs has risen to 150 since the start of the genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, after the deaths of colleagues Abdullah Al-Jamal, Ahlam Izzat Al-Ajla, and Dina Abdullah Al-Batniji.
The government media office and human rights organizations have repeatedly warned that the Israeli army is deliberately targeting Palestinian journalists to prevent reporting the crimes it is committing in Gaza.
Since the beginning of the Israeli war on October 7, journalists in the Gaza Strip have faced continuous Israeli attacks that directly target them, their homes, their families, and the headquarters of their media organizations.
Data and statistics – according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, which works to investigate all reports related to the killing, injury and loss of journalists and media workers – show that this war has become the bloodiest for journalists since the committee began its work in 1992.
The International Center for Journalists announced last February that the war on Gaza witnessed the highest levels of violence against journalists in 30 years, and called on Israel to stop killing journalists and investigate incidents of their killing at the hands of its forces.
Since October 7, 2023, Israel has been waging a war on Gaza that has left more than 121,000 Palestinians dead or wounded, most of them children and women, and about 10,000 missing amid massive destruction and famine that claimed the lives of children and the elderly.