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The Qatar Press Center condemns the assassination of 5 journalists in Gaza

During the past 24 hours, the Gaza Strip witnessed a massacre against journalists, as a result of which 5 journalists were martyred in two Israeli raids on the Nuseirat camp and Gaza City, within less than 12 hours. The Qatar Press Center renews its condemnation of the Israeli occupation forces’ targeting of journalists in Gaza with killing and abuse, the most recent of which was the assassination of 5 journalists in the bombing of the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip, and a house in the Daraj neighborhood in Gaza City. The Center denounces the Israeli army’s targeting of journalists’ homes and locations inside Gaza, which is a blatant violation of international law and a heinous crime to silence free media and obstruct its transmission of the truth to the world. The Center confirms that the Israeli occupation continues to pursue a clear policy of arresting and killing journalists in Gaza and the West Bank. To hide the genocidal massacres committed by Israel against civilians, and to prevent media professionals from showing the truth to the world. The Center calls on the international community to condemn the targeting of journalists in Gaza by bombing their homes and the homes of their families, in addition to arrest and intimidation, and calls for pressure on Israel to release detained male and female journalists and media professionals, who are languishing in Israeli prisons, in compelling circumstances that deprive them of the most basic prisoners’ rights stipulated in the laws. and international conventions. At dawn today, Saturday, 3 journalists, including a journalist and his wife, were martyred as a result of the occupation bombing of a house in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip. Yesterday evening, Friday, two Palestinian journalists were killed as a result of an Israeli raid that targeted a house in the Al-Daraj neighborhood in Gaza City. With the martyrdom of the five journalists, the toll since the start of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip rises to 158 Palestinian journalists. According to the government media office in Gaza, the five journalists who were recently martyred are “the director of Deep Shot Media Production Company, Saadi Madoukh, the journalist in the same company, Adeeb Sukkar, the journalist at the Palestine Media Agency, Amjad Jahjouh, and Wafaa Abu, a programmer and presenter at the Islamic University of Gaza Radio.” Dabaan, and the journalist at the Palestine Media Agency, Rizq Abu Ashkian.” More than once, the government media office and human rights organizations have warned that the Israeli army, since the start of the war on Gaza, has been deliberately targeting Palestinian journalists. To prevent the transfer of “crimes” committed in Gaza. Data and statistics from the International Committee to Protect Journalists (a New York-based non-governmental organization) show that the war on Gaza has become “the bloodiest for journalists” since the committee began documenting the killings of journalists around the world in 1992. The International Center for Journalists (a non-governmental organization based in Washington) announced last February that the war on Gaza witnessed the highest levels of violence against journalists in 30 years, and called on Israel to stop targeting journalists and investigate incidents of their killing at the hands of its forces.