3 journalists among 9 killed in Israeli strike on Al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza

Ahram Online , Sunday 27 Oct 2024

Nine people, including three journalists, were killed and others wounded on Sunday when an Israeli airstrike hit a school sheltering displaced families in the Al-Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA.

 Damage inside Al-Shati refugee camp
File Photo: Rescuers and displaced Palestinians check the damage inside a UN school-turned-refuge in the Al-Shati refugee camp near Gaza City in the northern Gaza Strip, following a reported Israeli strike. AFP

 

The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate condemned the attack, calling it a deliberate targeting of journalists performing their professional duties. 

The media office identified the slain reporters as Saed Radwan from the local Al-Aqsa TV, Hamza Abu Salmiya from the Sanad News Agency, and Haneen Baroud, who works for Al-Quds Foundation.

The office appealed to the international community and press organizations to intervene “to deter the occupation and pursue it in international courts for its ongoing crimes, and pressure it to stop its ongoing genocide and the killing of Palestinian journalists.”

WAFA reported that Asmaa school had been bombed by Israeli forces twice this month, with the latest strike on 19 October causing dozens of casualties.

Israel has intensified airstrikes on Gaza where more than two million people live in the densely populated enclave, where hospitals, schools, and refugee camps have been caught in the crossfire.


Displaced Palestinians check the damage in the courtyard of a UN school-turned-refuge in the Al-Shati refugee camp near Gaza City in the northern Gaza Strip, following a reported Israeli strike on October 19, 2024. AFP 

Earlier on Sunday, the Israeli strikes on Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza killed at least 22 people, mostly women and children, Palestinian officials said.

Since 7 October 2023, the Israeli brutal military campaign on the Gaza Strip has killed at least 42,924 people, most of them women and children, with more than 100,833 others injured, according to the Palestinian health ministry's latest figures.

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