The variety of journalists killed by Israel in Gaza since Oct. 7 hit 101 on Sunday, in accordance with the besieged Palestinian territory’s media workplace.
One extra journalist was killed within the Gaza Strip on account of Israeli assaults, the workplace mentioned in an announcement.
“Fellow journalist, martyr Ahmed Jamal al-Madhoun, deputy director of the Palestinian Al-Rai Agency and director of the Visual Media Department, rose to greatness as a martyr at the hands of Israeli treachery in the North Gaza Governorate,” the media workplace mentioned.
The killing continues regardless of worldwide outcry over what some rights organizations have described because the deliberate focusing on of media professionals masking the battle.
Earlier Friday, Paris-based Reporters Without Borders (RSF) filed a second grievance with the International Criminal Court (ICC) over seven Palestinian journalists killed in Gaza from Oct. 22 to Dec. 15.
In response to the persevering with tragedy in Gaza, the RSF filed its newest grievance … this one regarding “probable war crimes” by the Israel forces, it mentioned in an announcement.
The “RSF has urged the ICC prosecutor (Karim Khan) to investigate all of the deaths of Palestinian journalists killed by the Israeli military since 7 October, currently totaling 66,” it added.
Montaser al-Sawaf, a contract cameraman for Türkiye’s Anadolu Agency, who was killed in Israeli airstrikes on Dec. 1, is among the many journalists named within the grievance.
The different journalists are Asem al-Barsh, an Al Najah radio journalist, Bilal Jadallah of Palestinian Press House, Rushdi Al Siraj, Hassouna Salim of Quds news company, Sari Mansour, a photo-journalist for Quds, and Samer Abu Daqqa, an Al Jazeera correspondent.
‘Intentional homicides’
The “RSF has reasonable grounds to believe that the journalists named in this complaint were the victims of attacks amounting to war crimes,” it mentioned.
The non-profit mentioned the “journalists may have been deliberately targeted as journalists,” which is why it’s describing these deaths as “intentional homicides of civilians.”
The RSF’s first battle crimes grievance since was filed with the ICC on Oct. 31 and anxious the deaths of seven different journalists.
The Qatar-based Al Jazeera was additionally getting ready to file a authorized grievance with the ICC over the Israeli “assassination” of one among its cameramen in Gaza.
The cameraman, Samer Abu Daqqa, was killed by a drone strike on Oct. 15 whereas reporting on the bombing of a college, in accordance with the broadcaster.
“The Network established a joint working group, which comprises of its international legal team and international legal experts who will collaboratively initiate the process of compiling a comprehensive file for submission to the court’s prosecutor,” Al Jazeera had mentioned in an announcement.
“The legal file will also encompass recurrent attacks on the Network’s crews working and operating in the occupied Palestinian territories and instances of incitement against them,” it added.
Since the Oct. 7 Hamas incursion, Israel has pounded the Gaza Strip, killing a minimum of 20,258 Palestinians, largely ladies and youngsters, and injuring 53,688 others, in accordance with well being authorities within the enclave.
The Israeli onslaught has left Gaza in ruins with half of the coastal territory’s housing inventory broken or destroyed, and almost 2 million individuals displaced inside the densely populated enclave amid shortages of meals and clear water.
Source: www.dailysabah.com