CROSSFIREARABIA – Gaza has long become a bloodbath for journalists and the death toll doesn’t seem to be stopping.
Three journalists were killed in Gaza, Sunday evening, increasing the number of dead since 7 October, 2023, to 180 according to the Gaza Media Office.
They are Saed Radwan, head of Digital Media at the Al Aqsa Channel; Hamza Abu Salmiya of the Sanad news agency and Hanin Mahmood Baroud of the Al Quds Foundation.
Their death was the a result of an Israeli airstrike at a school-turned-shelter in western Gaza.
The three were killed in the Israeli bombing of Al Asmaa School in the Al Shaati refugee camp were four others were martyred include the child Zeina Saeed Al Ghoul, Shoaib Al Hadeed, Ahmad Shoaib Al Hadeed, Saja Ahmad Al Atal and Nidaa’ Al Atal.
The Gaza Media Office appealed to the world community and press organizations to intervene “to deter the occupation and pursue it in international courts for its ongoing crimes, and pressure it to stop its ongoing genocide and the killing of Palestinian journalists.”