Israel Kills 5 Journalists Outside Maternity Hospital

• CrossFireArabia
• December 26, 2024

Five Palestinian journalists were killed at dawn, Thursday, when the Israeli occupation forces bombed their vehicle in the central Gaza Strip.

Local sources said the occupation forces bombed a television broadcast vehicle in front of Al-Awda Hospital in Al-Nuseirat camp, killing five journalists working for Al-Quds Today satellite channel who were inside it.

Al-Quds Today channel announced that five of its journalists were martyred at dawn today in an Israeli airstrike that targeted the channel’s external broadcast vehicle in Al-Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.

Footage from the scene showed the van engulfed in flames as civil defense teams worked to recover the bodies and extinguish the fire.

The five journalists that were killed by an Israeli targetted strike were Faisal Abu Al-Qumsan, Ayman Al-Jadi, Ibrahim Al-Sheikh Khalil, Fadi Hassouna, and Muhammad Al-Lad’ah, who were killed in a Zionist attack on the external broadcast bus.”

In a statement by the Quds Today satellite channel it added the five were killed “while performing their journalistic and humanitarian duty,” describing the incident as “a crime added to the series of crimes committed by the occupation against Palestinian journalists.”

The Gaza Government Media Office confirmed the number of the journalists has risen to 201 since the beginning of the Israeli aggression on the Strip since 7 October, 2023.

Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif reported al-Jadi was waiting for his wife, who was in labor with their first child, outside the hospital at the time of the attack.

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) wrote on X it “is devastated by the reports that five journalists and media workers were killed inside their broadcasting vehicle by an Israeli strike in the Nuseirat Camp,” pointing out that “journalists must always be protected.”

The Israeli occupation army, supported by the United States and Europe, has continued its aggression on the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, where its aircraft bombed the vicinity of hospitals, buildings, towers, and homes of Palestinian civilians, destroying them over the heads of their residents, and preventing the entry of water, food, medicine, and fuel.

The aggression left more than 153,000 Palestinian martyrs and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 10,000 missing, amid massive destruction and famine that killed dozens of children and elderly people, in one of the worst humanitarian disasters in the world.