The Committee to Protect Journalist reports that the Israeli war on Gaza is the deadliest for journalists since the organization started collecting data in 1992.
The Government Media Office in Gaza stated that the number of journalist killed since the beginning of the genocidal war on the Strip has risen to 137 after an Israeli strike targeted the home of journalist Abdul Wahab Aouni Abu Aoun in the al-Maghazi refugee camp on Sunday, leading to his martyrdom.
Journalists in Gaza are facing terrible dangers, brought forth by “Israel’s” mass indiscriminate bombing of the Strip, communication and electricity outages, and supply shortages.
The Committee to Protect Journalists CPJ warned on Thursday that “journalists in Gaza face particularly high risks as they try to cover the conflict during the Israeli ground assault.”
“CPJ is investigating all reports of journalists and media workers killed, injured, or missing in the war, which has led to the deadliest period for journalists since CPJ began gathering data in 1992,” it added.
An Israeli airstrike targeted earlier today tents housing journalists and forcibly displaced families within the premises of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital. The aggression resulted in the martyrdom and wounding of over 20 people.
Earlier this week, the world’s largest organization of journalists, the International Federation of Journalists, alongside 38 more media freedom organizations, including the CPJ, called on the Media Freedom Coalition (MFC) member countries to take “meaningful action” to protect journalists in Gaza.
The situation in Gaza “requires action from your member states to consistently and publicly call for the treatment of Palestinian journalists, who continue to report from Gaza in spite of the risks,” their statement read, also calling for “the immediate and unfettered access of international journalists to Gaza.”
Source: AlMayadeen
