Israel Kills 3 Journalists Hiking Their Deaths to 181

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.”

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Dr. Marwan Asmar holds a PhD from Leeds University and is a freelance writer specializing on the Middle East. He has worked as a journalist since the early 1990s in Jordan and the Gulf countries, and been widely published, including at Albawaba, Gulf News, Al Ghad, World Press Review and others.

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The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) sounded the alarm on Saturday over a rapidly escalating humanitarian catastrophe in the Gaza Strip.

“All basic supplies are running out in Gaza. It means babies, children are going to bed hungry,” Juliette Touma, the agency’s director of communications, said in a statement.

“Six weeks into the Israeli-imposed siege blocking the entry of aid and commercial supplies, food stocks are nearly gone, bakeries closed, and hunger is spreading,” the agency also noted.

The UNRWA emphasized that “immediate action is needed to prevent a deepening humanitarian crisis.”

The Israeli army renewed a deadly assault on Gaza on March 18, shattering the ceasefire and prisoner exchange agreement that took hold in January.

More than 50,900 Palestinians, most of them women and children, have been killed in Gaza in a brutal Israeli onslaught since October 2023.

The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants last November for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.

Israel also faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice for its war on the enclave.

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