Five journalists killed in Israeli airstrike in Gaza
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Thursday, December 26, 2024
Islamabad (UrduPoint News International/ Pakistan Point News - 26th December, 2024 ) According to a statement issued by Al-Quds Today, the journalists’ broadcast wagon was targeted by a missile while it was in the Nussirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.
Al-Quds Today is affiliated with the militant Palestinian organization Islamic Jihad, whose militants fought alongside Hamas in the Gaza Strip and also participated in the terrorist attack in Israel on October 7, 2023, which led to the current Gaza Strip war.
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The channel identified its five killed workers as Faisal Abu Al-Qamsan, Ayman Al-Jadi, Ibrahim Al-Sheikh Khalil, Fadi Hassouna and Muhammad Al-Laada.
A statement issued by Al-Quds Today said the members were killed “while carrying out their journalistic and humanitarian responsibilities.”
The statement added, “We reiterate our determination to continue our resistance media message.”
The Israeli military said in a statement that it targeted a vehicle belonging to an Islamic Jihad “terrorist cell” in the Nusra area. “A number of measures were taken to minimize the risk of harm to civilians before the attack,” the statement added.
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According to witnesses in Nusra, a missile fired by an Israeli aircraft hit a broadcast vehicle parked outside Al-Awdah Hospital, causing the vehicle to catch fire and killing the people inside.
The Middle East branch of the Committee to Protect Journalists, an organization that works to protect journalists, said it was deeply saddened by reports that five journalists and media workers were killed inside their broadcast vehicle in the Israeli attack.
“Journalists are civilians and must always be protected,” a statement on social media said.
The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate said last week that more than 190 journalists have been killed and at least 400 injured since the start of the war in Gaza.
According to the AFP news agency, a Hamas-led terrorist attack in Israel on October 7 last year killed 1,208 people, most of them civilians, while about 250 people were taken hostage and taken to the Gaza Strip.
Following the attack, Israel launched a military operation against Hamas in the Gaza Strip that is still ongoing.
According to figures from the Gaza Health Ministry, at least 45,361 people have been killed in the Gaza Strip as a result of the Israeli military operation, the majority of whom were Palestinian civilians.
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