Total number of Palestinian journalists killed in Israeli attacks since Oct. 7, 2023, has reached 226
GAZA — A Palestinian photojournalist died from the injuries sustained in Israel’s Thursday strike on a media tent at Gaza City’s Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital, bringing the total number of journalists killed in a single strike to four.
A medical source said on Friday that photojournalist Ahmad Qalja succumbed to his wounds following Thursday’s deadly drone attack that killed three other journalists and injured four more.
The journalists who lost their lives have been identified as:
Ismail Badah – Palestinian TV cameraman
Suleiman Hajjaj – Reporter
Samir al-Rifai – Shms News Agency
Ahmed Qalaja
Several other journalists were injured in the attack.
The deadly attack came one day after the US vetoed a UN Security Council draft resolution that called for an “immediate, unconditional, and permanent ceasefire” in the Gaza Strip.
Slovenia proposed the draft resolution on behalf of the Security Council’s 10 elected members—Algeria, Denmark, Greece, Guyana, Panama, Pakistan, South Korea, Sierra Leone, Somalia, and Slovenia—and received 14 votes.
Israel, rejecting international calls for a ceasefire, has pursued a genocidal offensive in Gaza since October 2023, killing nearly 54,700 Palestinians, most of them women and children. Aid agencies have warned about the risk of famine among the enclave’s more than 2 million inhabitants.
Last November, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.
The number of journalists killed by Israel in Gaza has risen to 226, 30 female among them, since the regime’s genocidal war began on October 7, 2023. — With inputs from agencies
