Death in Gaza: Journalists murdered in Israeli attack!

Death in Gaza: Journalists murdered in Israeli attack!

In the Gaza Strip there was a tragic incident in which several journalists died during an Israeli air raid. According to reports from krone.at , five employees of the Palestinian television broadcaster Al-Quds Today were killed in a vanity clearly marked as" press ", while she was waiting for a reporter in front of the Al-Awda Hospital. According to the Israeli armed forces, the targeted attack was concerned with being targeted by alleged terrorists who are expressed as journalists. This confirms the violent reality that many rapporteurs experience in the Gaza Strip.

The context of the attack

The Israeli army said that the attack on the press vehicle took place in targeting to protect the civilian population and to eliminate supposed activists from Islamic jihad. The organization reporter without borders described the recent events as "unprecedented massacre", since over 145 journalists have been killed since the beginning of the current war in October 2023. As Jewish general , the Israeli army also reports that in another attack a son of a prominent al-Jazera-correspondent, Hamza al-dahduh, was killed. He is said to have been promoted in an attack on a vehicle that was with a Palestinian terrorist.

This incident caused strong international attention, since rapporteurs are increasingly at risk in war zones. According to the committee for the protection of journalists, at least 79 journalists, including a high number of Palestinians, have died since the beginning of the conflict. The foreign press association in Israel was deeply dismayed by the losses and called for the security of reporting. This is done in an environment that is peppered with air strikes, interruptions of communication and supply bottlenecks.