GAZA (Palestine Foundation Information Center) Journalists and human rights activists launched a solidarity campaign on Friday to demand the urgent travel of wounded journalists Fadi al-Wahidi and Ali al-Attar to receive medical treatment outside the Gaza Strip.
Anas as-Sharif, Al Jazeera channel’s correspondent in northern Gaza, said that the campaign was launched as the health of Wahidi and Attar seriously worsened, adding that they were injured in Israeli attacks about 40 days ago while covering field events in Gaza.
Sharif warned that if Wahid and Attar were not allowed to leave Gaza for medical treatment, they would die according to doctors in the Strip.
For its part, Gaza’s Government Media Office (GMO) appealed to all Arab and international parties to pressure the Israeli occupation government to open Gaza crossings to allow wounded journalists to travel for medical treatment abroad.
In press remarks on Friday, GMO director Ismail Thawabta condemned the Israeli occupation army’s persistence in targeting and killing Palestinian journalists.
Thawabta called on the international community and its organizations to take legal action against the Israeli occupation regime to hold it accountable for its ongoing war crimes and pressure it to stop its genocide in Gaza.
Despite appeals from three media freedom organizations, the Israeli army have not allowed Wahidi and Attar to leave Gaza.
