[News] Bloody Toll on Gaza Journalists Continues - 158 Killed since October 7

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Bloody Toll on Gaza Journalists Continues - 158 Killed since October 7July
6, 2024
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Palestinian journalist Saadi Madoukh was killed in an Israeli airstrike in
Al-Daraj. (Photo: via social media)

*By Palestine Chronicle Staff
<https://www.palestinechronicle.com/writers/palestine-chronicle-staff>*

Israeli forces killed four journalists in Gaza in the last 48 hours,
raising the total number of media professionals killed since October 7 to
158.

Palestinian journalist Amjad Jahjouh was killed on Saturday morning along
with his wife, journalist Wafaa Abu Dabaan, and their child in the Nuseirat
refugee camp, in central Gaza.

On Friday evening, Palestinian journalists Saadi Madoukh and Ahmed Sakr
were killed by an Israeli airstrike that targeted the Madoukh family’s home
in the Al-Daraj neighborhood of Gaza City.

Palestinian sources reported that the bodies of five martyrs were recovered
from the rubble of the targeted house.

Palestinian activists shared a video showing the destruction of the Madoukh
family home and the rescue of martyrs and wounded individuals.

Images of the late journalist Saadi Madoukh, holding a camera on a street
in Gaza, were also circulated on Palestinian websites and social media
platforms.

With the deaths of the four reporters, the number of Palestinian
journalists killed since the start of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip on
October 7 has reached 158.

The Palestinian Center for the Protection of Journalists condemned the
killing of the two journalists in the Al-Daraj neighborhood, noting that
their killings occurred just one day after Al-Quds TV journalist Mohammed
Al-Sakani was killed in a similar bombing of his family’s home in the
Al-Tuffah neighborhood of Gaza City.

In a statement, the center asserted that these ongoing attacks on
Palestinian journalists result from decisions made by Israeli authorities,
aimed at concealing facts and preventing the exposure of the massacres
being committed against civilians in the Gaza Strip.

The statement described the targeting of Palestinian journalists in Gaza as
the bloodiest in modern history and called for an independent and
comprehensive international investigation into Israeli crimes against
journalists.
*Ongoing Genocide*

Currently on trial before the International Court of Justice for genocide
against Palestinians, Israel has been waging a devastating war on Gaza
since October 7.

According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 38,098 Palestinians have been
killed, and 87,705 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on
October 7.

Moreover, at least 11,000 people are unaccounted for, presumed dead under
the rubble of their homes throughout the Strip.

Israel says that 1,200 soldiers and civilians were killed during the
Al-Aqsa Flood Operation on October 7. Israeli media published reports
suggesting that many Israelis were killed on that day by ‘friendly fire’.

Palestinian and international organizations say that the majority of those
killed and wounded are women and children.

The Israeli war has resulted in an acute famine, mostly in northern Gaza,
resulting in the death of many Palestinians, mostly children.

The Israeli aggression has also resulted in the forceful displacement of
nearly two million people from all over the Gaza Strip, with the vast
majority of the displaced forced into the densely crowded southern city of
Rafah near the border with Egypt – in what has become Palestine’s largest
mass exodus since the 1948 Nakba.

Later in the war, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians began moving from
the south to central Gaza in a constant search for safety.

*(PC, AJA)*
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