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The Qatar Press Center condemns the assassination of a Palestinian journalist and his family

Muhammad Jasser, a journalist for the Palestine newspaper, was martyred today, Saturday, as a result of the Israeli occupation targeting his house in the Gaza Strip, as part of the genocidal war waged by Israel against the Strip. A medical source at Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip said: Journalist Muhammad Jasser was martyred along with his wife and two children in an Israeli raid that targeted their house in the Jabalia camp in the northern Gaza Strip. The Palestinian Wafa Agency quoted local sources as saying that the occupation aircraft targeted the journalist’s house in Jabalia Camp with heavy missiles, which led to the martyrdom of journalist Muhammad Jaser and all his family members, and their bodies were all transferred to Kamal Adwan Hospital. The Qatar Press Center renews its condemnation of the Israeli occupation forces targeting journalists in Gaza with killing and abuse, the latest of which was the killing of Palestinian journalist Muhammad Jasser and all members of his family. The Center denounces the Israeli army’s targeting of journalists’ families, 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 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, depriving them of the most basic prisoners’ rights stipulated in the laws. and international conventions. With the martyrdom of journalist Jaser, the number of journalist casualties since the beginning of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, on October 7, rises to 161 journalists.