Another Journalist Killed In Gaza

One more journalist was killed in the Gaza Strip from Israeli attacks, Al-Aqsa Radio said on Friday, bringing the total number of journalists killed since Oct. 7 to 120. 

This incident took place in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza on Saturday local time. This information was given in a statement from the official media office of Gaza.

The name of the slain journalist is Iyad Ahmed Al-Rawag. He was a broadcaster and presenter of South Al-Aqsa Radio. A number of his family members were also killed. “As a result of the Zionist occupation targeting his house in the Al-Hasayna area in the Nuseirat (refugee) camp,” Al-Aqsa Radio said in a statement.

Already, more Palestinian journalists have been killed by Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip over the last three-plus months than the number killed around the world in both 2021 and 2022.

According to local and international data, 109 journalists were killed worldwide in 2021 and 2022, while at least 120 Palestinian journalists have been killed in Gaza since Oct. 7.

According to the Ministry of Health of Gaza, in the last 24 hours, 174 Palestinians were killed and 310 were injured in the Israeli attack across Gaza.

A doctor at Nasser Hospital in the southern Gaza city of Khan Yunis said 95 percent of his hospital staff had fled to neighboring Rafah due to fears of an Israeli attack.

Israel launched a deadly offensive on the Gaza Strip since an Oct. 7 attack by the Palestinian group Hamas, killing at least 25,900 Palestinians and injuring 64,110 others. Nearly 1,200 Israelis are believed to have been killed in the Hamas attack.

The Israeli war has left 85% of Gaza’s population internally displaced amid acute shortages of food, clean water, and medicine, while more than half of the enclave’s infrastructure has been damaged or destroyed, according to the UN.  

Meanwhile, some Western countries have announced the suspension of aid to the United Nations' Palestinian refugee agency, UNRWA. They took this decision given a complaint from Israel. Israel has claimed that some of the workers of this organization may be involved in the attack of Hamas in Israel on October 7. UNRWA Commissioner General Philippe Lazzarini condemned the incident. He described such a decision as extremely painful.

Last Friday, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordered Israel to take measures to prevent genocide in Gaza. But so far Israel has not paid attention to it. Protests are going on in different countries of the world. Around 20,000 people took to the streets in solidarity with the Palestinians in the Spanish capital Madrid on Saturday local time. They demanded an end to the war. Reuters reported that similar protests took place in Bogota, the capital of Colombia._Al Jazeera