Fearless Journalist Mohammad Baalousha Killed by Israeli Quadcopter

• CrossFireArabia
• December 14, 2024

CROSSFIREARABIA – Israeli warplanes struck the home of journalist Mohammad Baalousha, Saturday, killing him instantly with no let up on the open murder of Palestinian journalists.

The latest strike on his home on the Ahmad Yassin Street in the Saftawi neighborhood of Gaza City killing is trending on the social media.

He becomes journalist number 194 to have been killed by the Israel since 7 October when the war on Gaza began.

Last January, Baalousha was injured by an Israeli sniper while reporting and was denied medical treatment for six hours, as Israeli tanks blocked his evacuation.

Nour Naim wrote: “Despite sustaining severe injuries in this war, he regained his strength and returned to work under harrowing conditions. He was known for his fearless reporting, including exposing the massacre of premature infants at Al-Nasr Hospital back in March 2024.

In this Israeli slaughter of the Gaza Strip about 400 journalists were injured and 40 others were arrested according to the Qatar Press Center.

“The number of journalist martyrs has risen to 195 following the martyrdom of journalist Mohammad Baalousha, a correspondent for Al-Mashhad Channel (a private Lebanese network based in Dubai), as a result of an Israeli airstrike on Gaza,” the Palestinian Journalists’ Forum said in a statement.

The Government Media Office in Gaza condemned in the strongest of terms the targeting, killing and assassination of Palestinian journalists by the Israeli occupation, and called on all countries of the world to condemn these systematic crimes against Palestinian journalists and media professionals in the Gaza Strip.

The office also put on the American administration the United Kingdom, Germany and France for the killing of the journalist because the are the major suppliers of weapons to the Israeli government.

It called on the international community, international organizations and organizations related to journalistic and media work in all world countries to condemn the crimes of the occupation, deter it and prosecute it in international courts for its ongoing crimes and bring the criminals of the occupation to justice according to the Palestine Information Center.