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'Silencing Palestinian Voices' - Three More Journalists Killed by Israel in
Gaza
March 23, 2024
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The funeral of two Palestinian journalists killed by Israeli forces in
Gaza. (Photo: Mahmoud Ajjour, The Palestine Chronicle)

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

“Israel deliberately killed journalists in Gaza in order to silence the
voice of Palestinians, to hide the facts.”

Three more Palestinian journalists were killed in fresh Israeli attacks on
the Gaza Strip on Saturday, bringing the death toll to 136 since October 7,
2023, the Gaza government media office said in a statement.

The slain journalists were identified as Muhammad al-Rifi, Abdul Rahman
Saima, and Mahmoud Imad Issa, the statement said.

In an earlier statement, the office said that “Israel deliberately killed
journalists in Gaza in order to silence the voice of Palestinians, to hide
the facts, and to prevent information from reaching the regional and
international public.”

At the end of February, media organizations around the world held a minute
of silence to mark the International Day for Palestinian Journalists, also
in honor of those journalists killed since the start of Israel’s genocidal
onslaught on the Gaza Strip.

Since October 7, “One hundred journalists were killed in four months, the
equivalent of seven per week,” the International Federation of Journalists
(IFJ) said on its website at the time.

The IFJ added that “this massacre is a terrible and unjustified tragedy.”

The IFJ also said it was “alarmed by the poor international coverage of the
conflict, resulting from the world media’s exclusion from the enclave by
Israel.”

“All over the world we deserve to know what is going on in Gaza. This
deliberate denial of the right to report is an abuse of media freedom.”
*Gaza 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, 32,142 Palestinians have been
killed, and 74,412 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on
October 7.

Moreover, at least 7,000 people are unaccounted for, presumed dead under
the rubble of their homes throughout the Strip.

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

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.’

*(PC, Anadolu)*


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