Palestinian journalists Abdullah al-Soussi (L) and Tamim Muammar (Photo via social media)
Gaza City, August 10 (RHC)-- The government media office in the Gaza Strip says two more Palestinian journalists have been killed in Israeli strikes on the coastal territory, pushing the death toll of press members targeted by the Tel Aviv regime since the beginning of its war on the besieged region last October to 168.
Tamim Muammar, a journalist for the Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation (PBC), was killed in an Israeli attack that targeted his house on the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis on Friday.
Another journalist, identified as Abdullah al-Soussi, a reported for the Hamas-run al-Aqsa TV, was killed with his family in a separate Israeli strike on Khan Younis.
Meanwhile, the Official Palestinian Media has denounced the targeting of Palestinian journalists together with their families in Israeli attacks on Gaza. It said in a statement that the practice constitutes an integral part of the Israeli genocidal war against the Gaza Strip, stressing that Palestinian journalists and media personnel will continue to put the spotlight on the sufferings of Palestinians in the occupied territories.
It also called upon international media outlets and humanitarian organizations to not only issue generic statements of condemnation but to take immediate actions to hold Israeli perpetrators of war crimes accountable and bring them before the International Criminal Court (ICC).
Journalists operating in the Palestinian territory are faced with increased dangers as they report on the conflict amidst Israeli ground assaults and airstrikes, disrupted communications, supply shortages, and power outages.
Israel launched the war on Gaza on October 7 after Palestinian resistance groups carried out a surprise retaliatory operation into the occupied territories.
Concomitantly with the war, the regime has been enforcing a near-total siege on the coastal territory, which has reduced the flow of foodstuffs, medicine, electricity, and water into the Palestinian territory into a trickle.
So far during the military onslaught, the regime has killed at least 39,699 Gazans, most of them women, children, and adolescents. Another 91,722 Palestinians have sustained injuries as well.
