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Another journalist killed in Israeli strike in Gaza as death toll rises to 191

Sunday, 01 December 2024 6:05 AM [ Last Update: Monday, 02 December 2024 9:48 AM ]

Deceased Palestinian journalist Mamdouh Ibrahim Qunaita (Photo via social media)

Another Palestinian journalist has been killed in an Israeli air strike on the Gaza Strip, bringing the overall death to 191 since the onset of the regime’s bloodiest-ever war against the besieged coastal territory in early October last year.

Gaza’s government media office identified the victim as Mamdouh Ibrahim Qunaita, an editor in the al-Quds television channel affiliated with the Hamas resistance movement.

The media office denounced Israel’s heinous crime, calling for an immediate halt to the targeted killings of Palestinian journalists.

“[We call on] the international community, international organizations, and agencies related to journalism worldwide to hold the occupying Israeli regime accountable, pursue it in international courts for its ongoing crimes, and pressure it to stop the crime of genocide and the killing and assassination of Palestinian journalists.”

Journalists operating in the Palestinian territory are faced with increased dangers as they report on the ongoing Israeli assaults, disrupted communications, supply shortages, and power outages.

More journalists killed by Israel in Gaza than in any conflict in 30 years: CPJ

Media workers have taken an unprecedented toll since Israel launched the war on Gazans since early October last year.

Backed by the United States and its Western allies, Israel launched the war on Gaza on October 7, 2023, after the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas waged the surprise Operation Al-Aqsa Flood against the Israeli regime in response to its decades-long campaign of oppression against Palestinians.

The regime’s bloody onslaught on Gaza has so far killed 44,382 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injured 105,142 others. Thousands more are also missing and presumed dead under rubble.

On November 21, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former minister of military affairs Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.

Israel also faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for its deadly war on the blockaded coastal sliver.

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