The syndicate revealed in a statement that in September alone, the Israeli occupation army killed two journalists in Gaza, and injured nine others by live bullets in the West Bank.
The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS) said on Friday that the Israeli occupation army committed in September 185 violations against Palestinian journalists in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank, Anadolu news agency reported.
The syndicate revealed in a statement that in September alone, the Israeli occupation army killed two journalists in Gaza, and injured nine others by live bullets in the West Bank.
The media group reported that five journalists were detained in the occupied West Bank while 10 cases of forced entry were registered into various media bureaus and homes of journalists.
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The statement indicated that 23 journalists suffered suffocation from tear gas while on the job covering the Israeli war.
Moreover, the Israeli occupation authorities prevented 67 journalists from conducting media coverage across the occupation West Bank, Anadolu said.
The syndicate indicated that most recently the Israeli occupation authorities have shut down the Al-Jazeera bureau in Ramallah in the West Bank confiscating their equipment and banning its journalists from performing their job, in addition to destroying the equipment of Nas Radio in Jenin along with eleven other media outlets.
Systematic Israeli Violations
Israel has targeted media outlets since the start of its genocide on Gaza on October 8, the ban of Al-Jazeera in Israel in May followed by the closure of its Ramallah bureau in the occupied West Bank in September is yet another example.
Palestinian journalists in the Gaza Strip have been systematically targeted by the Israeli occupation army during the raging war.
Since the start of Israel’s genocidal war against the Gaza Strip, a total of 173 Palestinian journalists have been killed, and more than 190 others have been injured, while 87 media institutions have been destroyed, according to the Health Ministry in the Strip.
This has been met with wide condemnation from various international organizations requesting protection for Palestinian journalists.
In August, the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate, the Al-Dameer Association for Human Rights, and the Independent Commission for Human Rights condemned in a joint statement the Israeli occupation authorities’ crimes against Palestinian journalists.
Deputy Chairman of the Journalists Syndicate in Gaza, Tahseen Al-Astal, said that these crimes directly touched 160 journalists and media workers since the start of the genocide on Gaza on October 7 of last year while adding that the occupation has destroyed over 88 media institutions and turned 94 others unfunctional due to systematic bombardment.
Al-Astal accused Israel of not only targeting Palestinian journalists but also their families labeling these crimes as “racist and fascist” while indicating that 94 journalists have been arrested since October 7, and “53 of them remain in detention, including 19 journalists from the Gaza Strip.”
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Gaza Genocide
Flouting a UN Security Council resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire, Israel has faced international condemnation amid its continued brutal offensive on Gaza.
Currently on trial before the International Court of Justice for genocide against Palestinians, Israel has been waging a devastating war on Gaza since October 7.
According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 41,788 Palestinians have been killed, and 96,794 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7, 2023.
Moreover, at least 11,000 people are unaccounted for, presumed dead under the rubble of their homes throughout the Strip.
Israel says that 1,200 soldiers and civilians were killed during the Al-Aqsa Flood Operation on October 7. Israeli media published reports suggesting that many Israelis were killed on that day by ‘friendly fire’.
Palestinian and international organizations say that the majority of those killed and wounded are women and children.
The Israeli war has resulted in an acute famine, mostly in northern Gaza, resulting in the death of many Palestinians, mostly children.
The Israeli aggression has also resulted in the forceful displacement of nearly two million people from all over the Gaza Strip, with the vast majority of the displaced forced into the densely crowded southern city of Rafah near the border with Egypt – in what has become Palestine’s largest mass exodus since the 1948 Nakba.
Later in the war, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians began moving from the south to central Gaza in a constant search for safety.
(PC, Anadolu)
