Israel Kills Journalist Maisara Salah in Cold Blood
CrossFireArabia- December 1, 2024
Maisara Salah, a journalist with the Quds News Network, was killed by Israeli forces in northern Gaza while he was covering an attack on a school.
Hours after his passing from an Israeli military attack in northern Gaza, the journalist’s grandmother also from grief over the loss of her grandson.
In a statement the Quds News Network it is with profound sadness and sorrow, mourns the loss of its deeply committed colleague who died after wounds by gunfire of the Israeli occupation forces. It added Maisara was targeted, Friday, on the ongoing war on Gaza, in which the occupation continues to destroy buildings, massacres people and families while uprooting trees on a mass scale.
The journalist was injured and succumbed to his wounds the following day Saturday, near the Awani Al-Harthani School after a violent Israeli airstrike targeted the school, which was sheltering hundreds of displaced people. These individuals were trapped for the past two months, hungry and desperate due to the continuous military aggression.
Despite the relentless efforts of the medical staff at the Kamal Adwan Hospital to save his life, the Israeli occupation refused to allow his transfer to hospitals in Gaza City for necessary treatment on Saturday, 30 November, 2024. After strenuous attempts to transfer him to the Al Ahli Baptist Hospital and/or Shifa Hospital, the occupation stopped the ambulance and detained Maisara for eight hours. They allowed him to pass thereafter but it was too late and died as a result.
In a written statement the editors of the Quds News Network stated they hold the Israeli occupation fully responsible for the martyrdom of Maisara Salah, who they said was killed twice—once by the direct injury and again by the obstruction of his medical treatment.
The network calls on human rights and international organizations to launch an immediate and thorough investigation into the ongoing war crimes committed by the occupation against Palestinian journalists, which have so far led to the martyrdom of more than 190 journalists, in a blatant violation of all international laws and norms. He is journalist number 192 to have been killed by Israeli gunfire.
His comment on Facebook on the situation in North Gaza stated: “We are besieged from all directions—south, north, west, and east. Between us and the Israeli tanks, there are less than 400 meters.
There is no way to flee or reach Gaza.” For over 52 days, the Israeli army has been besieging North Gaza, cutting off food, water, and media services, while shutting down hospitals and civil defense operations.
