The ongoing conflict in Gaza has been identified as the most lethal for journalists and media workers globally, as highlighted in an Al Jazeera report.
According to Gaza’s Government Media Office, separate Israeli strikes have killed at least three journalists in the Nuseirat refugee camp and two in Gaza City.
Among those killed in Nuseirat were Amjad Jahjouh and Rizq Abu Ashkian from the Palestine Media Agency, and Wafa Abu Dabaan from the Islamic University Radio in Gaza.
Al Jazeera reported that the strike on Nuseirat resulted in ten fatalities, including Abu Dabaan and Jahjouh’s children.
On Friday, Palestinian journalists Saadi Madoukh and Ahmed Sukkar lost their lives in an Israeli raid, increasing the death toll of media workers since the conflict began to at least 158.
The Committee to Protect Journalists, based in New York, reported that as of July 5, 108 media workers had been killed since the start of the war, marking this period as the deadliest since the organization began tracking data in 1992.
In a symbolic act of mourning, Palestinian journalists carried mock coffins of their deceased colleagues during a funeral procession towards a United Nations (UN) office in Ramallah, as reported by Sputnik International.
Furthermore, on Saturday, an Israeli strike on a United Nations Relief and Works Agency school resulted in at least 16 deaths, with a majority of the injured being children. This attack raised the 24-hour death toll to 29, including the five journalists.
Gaza’s Ministry of Health reported that 87 people were killed across the enclave in the past 48 hours, bringing the total death toll to 38,098 over nine months of conflict. Nearly 88,000 people have been injured during this period.
An Al Jazeera reporter expressed the ongoing tragedy: “It’s a scene that we’ve been seeing over and over for the past nine months, crying parents over the bodies of their children. It’s heartbreaking and it’s becoming the daily norm for people here.”
