[News] Hamas: Assassination of journalist Hassan Esleih reflects Zionist sadism

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 Hamas: Assassination of journalist Hassan Esleih reflects Zionist sadism

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GAZA, (PIC)

Hamas said that the Israeli assassination of journalist Hassan Esleih while
receiving treatment at Nasser Hospital is a “new war crime reflecting
Zionist sadism.”

“In a new crime added to the Zionist occupation’s black record, the Zionist
enemy forces committed a cowardly assassination against the heroic
Palestinian journalist Hassan Esleih by targeting him directly while he was
receiving treatment at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis. He had sustained
wounds in a previous Zionist bombing that targeted a journalists’ tent in
Khan Yunis,” Hamas said in a statement on Tuesday.

Hamas said that the assassination reflected a systematic determination to
eliminate free voices and silence the truth, without the slightest regard
for any human or legal values.

The Movement added that “this compound crime, which is a flagrant violation
of all international and humanitarian laws, reflects the moral and media
bankruptcy of the occupation, exposes the falsity of its claims before the
world, and confirms that it is an entity based on terrorism and physical
liquidation of anyone who exposes its crimes, especially journalists.”

Hamas mourned the journalist martyr Esleih and affirmed that “targeting
journalists will not silence the voice of truth, nor will it intimidate the
knights of the word and the image, who convey to the world the just
narrative of our people and expose the atrocities and ongoing crimes of the
occupation.”

With the martyrdom of journalist Esleih, the number of martyrs from the
Palestinian press has risen to 215 since the start of the criminal
aggression against the Gaza Strip.

Hamas called on the international community, with all its international
bodies as well as press and human rights institutions, to “shoulder, its
legal and moral responsibilities, take urgent action to stop the
occupation’s crimes against Palestinian journalists, impose deterrent
sanctions on this criminal entity and its murderous leaders, and sever all
political and media ties with it, as it poses a threat to press freedom and
humanity as a whole.”

Journalist Hassan Esleih was assassinated by Israeli occupation forces
early Tuesday morning at the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis where he
was recovering from injuries sustained 37 days ago.
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