The number of journalists killed since the beginning of the genocidal war on the Gaza Strip has risen to 214 after an Israeli airstrike killed Yahya Sobeih on Wednesday. Another journalist, Nour Al-Din Matar Abdo was also killed in the Israeli bombing in the Al-Tuffah neighbourhood, east of Gaza City.
Sbeih was killed in the massacre just five hours after the birth of his newborn baby. His last social media post was about his newborn.
The Government Media Office “strongly” condemned, in the harshest terms, the Israeli occupation’s systematic targeting, killing, and assassination of Palestinian journalists.
“We call on the International Federation of Journalists, the Federation of Arab Journalists, and all press bodies around the world to denounce these systematic crimes against Palestinian journalists and media professionals in Gaza,” it said in a statement.
“We hold the Israeli occupation, the U.S. administration, and all countries complicit in the genocide—such as the United Kingdom, Germany, and France—fully responsible for this heinous and brutal crime.”
On Wednesday, More than 102 people were killed in Gaza, within 24 hours, according to officials in the besieged enclave.
More journalists have been killed in Gaza than in both world wars, the Vietnam War, the wars in Yugoslavia and the United States war in Afghanistan combined, according to a report by the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs’ Costs of War project.
