GAZA (Palestine Foundation Information Center) The Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, confirmed that the assassination of Al Jazeera photographer Ahmad Al-Louh by Israeli occupation forces is a “war crime,” and part of a systematic targeting of journalists in the Gaza Strip.
In a press statement on Sunday, Hamas said that “the assassination of journalists aims to terrorize them and deter them from fulfilling their role and mission in exposing the crimes and atrocities committed by the occupying army against our people and land.”
Hamas called on international press organizations to adopt a firm stance against the ongoing crimes of the occupation against journalists, support their Palestinian journalist colleagues, and provide all forms of assistance and solidarity, while exposing the brutal crimes of the occupation against them.
Journalist Ahmad Al-Louh was martyred in an airstrike targeting a civil defense point in the New Market area of the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza on Sunday, raising the number of journalist martyrs to 196 since the start of the war on Gaza.
A reporter from the SANAD News Agency quoted local sources saying that occupation aircraft targeted a civil defense point in Nuseirat, resulting in martyrs, including Al Jazeera photographer Ahmad Al-Louh.
