The Price of Reporting: Journalist Death Toll in Gaza Rises to 188
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Roshan Amiri
- . November 11, 2024
- . Update: November 11, 2024 12:59 pm
The media office said in a statement that although Israeli forces killed two journalists in Gaza City on Saturday, officials had already identified two more journalists who had been targeted.
The News Media Network journalists Ahmed Abu Sukheil and Al-Zahraa Abu Sukheil were killed in an Israeli attack on Saturday which the strike targeted on a school in Gaza City that provided shelter to people who were displaced.
Mustafa Bahar and Abdulrahman Bahar who were employed by the local news organisation Ajel Palestine were the other two journalists who had been killed. A photojournalist named Abdulrahman was murdered on October 6 in the Al-Karama area northwest of Gaza City and a reporter named Mustafa was killed on March 31 near the Kuwait Roundabout south of Gaza City.
The media office blamed Israel alone for the attacks on Palestinian journalists and criticised them. It demanded action from the international community to put an end to Israel’s murdering of journalists.
The Israeli attack on Gaza has murdered more journalists in the last year than any previous conflict in the last thirty years as per the US-based Committee to Protect Journalists. (CPJ)
“Since the war in Gaza started, journalists have been paying the highest price – their lives – for their reporting. Without protection, equipment, international presence, communications, or food and water, they are still doing their crucial jobs to tell the world the truth. Every time a journalist is killed, injured, arrested, or forced to go to exile, we lose fragments of the truth. Those responsible for these casualties face dual trials: one under international law and another before history’s unforgiving gaze,” said CPJ Program Director Carlos Martinez de la Serna in New York.
According to the report by the CPJ, As of November 8 a total 137 journalists and media workers were confirmed killed. 129 of them were Palestinian, two Israeli and six Lebanese. Additionally 47 journalists were reported injured, 2 journalists were reported missing and 71 journalists were reported arrested.
The CPJ also released a list of all journalists who had been killed while covering the truth on Israel’s strike.
