DaysofPal – The Government Media Office in Gaza announced on Sunday that the number of journalists killed in Israel’s war on Gaza has risen to 247, following the death of Palestinian journalist Islam Abed, a correspondent for Al-Quds Channel.
Abed was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Gaza City, the channel confirmed, adding that he was the 23rd member of its staff to be killed since the genocide began.
In a statement, Al-Quds Channel said, “We mourn our colleague, journalist Islam Abed. We affirm our continuation of our resistance media message with determination and resolve. The Zionist killing machine will not succeed in silencing our voice, which is the voice of the Palestinian people.”
The Gaza Government Media Office condemned Israel’s “targeting and assassination of Palestinian journalists,” holding Israel and the countries “participating in the genocide” fully responsible for these crimes.
The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate also denounced Abed’s killing, describing Israel’s actions as “a stigma of shame that haunts the killers of the truth and a full-fledged war crime.”
The Syndicate stressed that the blood of slain journalists would remain a “beacon of truth,” vowing that pens and cameras will not be silenced despite intimidation and deliberate targeting.
Human rights and press freedom organizations worldwide have echoed calls for urgent international action to hold Israel accountable for its crimes against journalists.
International statistics show that Israel’s ongoing war on Gaza has become the deadliest conflict for journalists in modern history, underscoring a systematic policy of targeting media workers to conceal atrocities and prevent the truth from reaching global public opinion.
Since October 7, 2023, Israel has been carrying out genocide in Gaza with American assistance, resulting in death, starvation, destruction, and forced migration. The country has disregarded all international calls and directives from the International Court of Justice to stop the genocide.
The Israeli genocide has left 63,459 Palestinians dead and 160,256 injured, most of them children and women. More than 9,000 are missing, hundreds of thousands are displaced, and a famine has killed 339 Palestinians, including 124 children, as of Sunday.
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