Journalist killed, others injured in Israeli artillery shelling in Jabalia

GAZA (Palestine Foundation Information Center) A journalist was killed, and two others were injured due to Israeli army shelling and direct gunfire targeting journalists in the Abu Sharakh roundabout area in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza on Wednesday. This raises the toll of journalist fatalities to 176 since the start of the genocidal war on Gaza.

Media sources reported that colleague journalist Mohammed Al-Tanani, who worked as a cameraman for Al-Aqsa TV, was killed, and the channel’s correspondent Tamer Labid was injured by shrapnel from a shell that struck his back.

Colleague Fadi Al-Wahidi, a cameraman for Al Jazeera, was also injured by a gunshot wound to the neck fired by an Israeli sniper, as reported by the channel’s correspondent Anas Al-Sharif. Medical sources described the conditions of Labid and Al-Wahidi as stable.

A few days ago, colleague journalist Hassan Hamad was killed when his home was targeted in an Israeli shelling of the Jabalia camp in northern Gaza.

The Government Media Office (GMO) in Gaza condemned the “killing and assassination” of Palestinian journalists by the Israeli occupation army, holding it fully responsible for the murder of journalist Al-Tanani and the injury of colleagues Labid and Al-Wahidi.

The GMO called on the international community and organizations related to journalism worldwide to deter the occupation and pursue it in international courts for its ongoing crimes. It also called for exerting pressure on Israel to stop the crime of genocide in Gaza and the killing and assassination of Palestinian journalists.

Northern Gaza, specifically the Jabalia camp, is undergoing extensive Israeli military aggression, marking the third of its kind since the start of the genocidal war on Gaza on October 7, 2023. In a move aimed at forcibly displacing the population. The occupation army targets everything that moves in the streets with artillery shells and Quadcopters.

Schools and mosques sheltering displaced persons are also subjected to intense shelling, resulting in dozens of martyrs and injuries.

Since the outbreak of the US-backed genocidal war, the Israeli occupation army has assassinated 176 journalists in the Gaza Strip and injured over 190 others, while 87 media institutions have been destroyed, according to GMO data.