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Israel killed one more Palestinian journalist, Sunday, in a mass airstrike on Al-Zaytoun neighborhood in southeastern Gaza City.
The strike killed two Palestinians, including journalist Fadi Khalifa, according to medical sources in Gaza.
Khalifa’s death hikes the number of journalists killed in Gaza since the start of Israel’s military campaign on Oct. 7, 2023 to 230 according to data by the Gaza Government Media Office.
Israel repeatedly targets journalists in a bid to stop coverage of the genocide, now going to nearly two years. On Thursday, the office said journalist Ahmad Salamah Abu Aisha lost his life after being directly hit in an Israeli drone attack in front of his home in the Sawarha area, west of the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza.
The office explained that Abu Aisha was killed as a result of a direct attack by Israeli drones in front of his home in the Al-Sawarah area, west of the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.
In a Media Office statement condemned “in strongest terms” the occupation’s systematic targeting and assassination of Palestinian journalists, calling on the International Federation of Journalists, the Federation of Arab Journalists, and all journalistic organizations around the world to condemn these crimes.
The statement also held the Israeli occupation, along with the US administration and countries involved in supporting the aggression, such as Britain, Germany, and France, fully responsible for the continued killing of journalists and media professionals.
Since 7 October, 2023, the occupation forces, with full American support, continued to commit genocidal crimes in Gaza, leaving approximately 195,000 Palestinians dead or wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 11,000 missing, in addition to hundreds of thousands displaced.
