Why Does Israel Continue to Kill Journalists?

CROSSFIREARABIA – Over 190 Palestinian journalists have been killed in Gaza since 7 October, 2023 for daring to report and utter the truth.

The Government Media Office in Gaza states the number of journalists killed in Gaza, as reported on 30 November, 2024, is now 191 after the death of Mamdouh Quneita in the al-Ahli Arab Hospital.

Quneita was an editor for Al-Aqsa satellite channel, the media office said.

“The Government Media Office condemns in the strongest terms the targeting, killing and assassination of Palestinian journalists by the Israeli occupation. We hold it fully responsible for committing this heinous crime.”

His name is trending on the social media for he was killed by an Israeli drone in the middle of Gaza City on Saturday afternoon in the courtyard of the Baptist Al Ahli hospital . According to the Anadolu Agency, as of Nov 27, 190 journalists have been killed in Gaza from Israeli attacks since Oct 7, 2023

One blogger writes: Shame on mainstream medias and all western journalists who remain silent in the face of Palestinian journalists being killed in unprecedented numbers by the Israeli colonial and apartheid regime. @MariamBarghouti, @ReporterSol

Another said Israeli forces shot and killed Mamdouh Quneita with a direct bullet to the head while he was performing his journalistic duties by Mamadani hospital. 191 journalists killed by Israel in just 13 months. This should be met with outrage and consequences.

Quneita was killed at the same hospital that Israel bombed October 17, 2023 killing hundreds in one go and setting the precedent for what later became a targeted attack on the Palestinian health infrastructure— including the rape and execution of doctors, nurses, and their own children.

One writes the killing of Palestinian journalists is more than WWI, WWII and Vietnam war combined yet the killing goes on the silence by the international community is maintained.

Yet the shocks continue by shallow statements from such western politicians.

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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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