In the last 24 hours, six media professionals fell victim to Israeli airstrikes, with journalists Sari Mansour and Hassouneh Salim among the casualties. The Israeli air strike targeting the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza claimed their lives. Since October 7, a total of 55 Palestinian media workers have lost their lives.
Reports from Palestinian media outlets confirm that Sari Mansour and Hassouna Salim were killed in a late Saturday Israeli airstrike on the Bureij camp. The tragic incident occurred when Sari Mansour’s residence faced bombardment in the central Gaza Strip.
Two Palestinian journalists Sari Mansour and Hassouna Salim were killed in an Israeli bombing of the Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip a while ago.#IsraelTerrorism pic.twitter.com/C9ucrETWy8
— Palestine Info Center (@palinfoen) November 18, 2023
These recent fatalities bring the count of journalists killed in Israel’s ongoing conflict with Gaza to over 50. The brutal war, initiated on October 7 after a surprise operation by Gaza-based resistance movements, has resulted in the deaths of at least 12,300 Palestinians, including over 5,000 children. Additionally, more than 29,800 individuals have sustained injuries.
Analysts posit that the Israeli regime is executing a preplanned campaign of targeted killings of journalists to conceal its war crimes in Gaza.
As the Tel Aviv regime’s aggression on the besieged strip enters its 32nd day, another Palestinian journalist has lost their life in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza. The regime’s airstrikes have indiscriminately targeted hospitals, residential buildings, mosques, and churches—violations protected under the Geneva Conventions.
Tel Aviv’s blockade on the flow of water, food, medicines, and electricity into Gaza has exacerbated the humanitarian crisis in the coastal strip.
In a collective stance, 700 Iranian news agencies, newspapers, news centers, and publications have strongly condemned Israel’s unprecedented killing of civilians and reporters in Gaza since early October. They issued a statement calling for an immediate cessation of the Tel Aviv regime’s atrocities and expressed solidarity with freedom-seeking journalists worldwide.
The coalition of news entities hopes that concerted efforts will prevent the world from overlooking Israel’s inhumane actions and lead to the rightful return of the occupied Palestinian territories to their original owners.
