Israeli forces have killed scores of journalists in their ongoing genocidal war on the Gaza Strip to prevent true coverage of their crimes across the besieged Palestinian territory.
The statement by the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate came on Sunday, which marked the 100th day of the regime’s military onslaught on Gaza.
“The number of journalists killed by the Israeli forces so far has reached 112, including 14 females,” it said, adding that “the regime’s forces continue to target Palestinian journalists with the intent to kill.”
The syndicate asserted that Israeli forces intentionally target press crews as part of the regime’s efforts “to kill the truth of the genocide committed against the Palestinian people in general, particularly in the Gaza Strip.”
The regime began its brutal military aggression following Operation al-Aqsa Storm by Gaza Strip-based resistance movements. Its genocidal war has killed nearly 24,000 Palestinians so far, most of them women and children, while leaving over 60,000 others injured.
Elsewhere in its statement, the syndicate warned about the ever-present threat of death for journalists in Gaza, saying they are operating in extremely complex and difficult conditions.
It noted that even family members of journalists are not spared as hundreds of them have been targeted and killed in Israeli airstrikes across the coastal territory.
The journalists syndicate warned that the Israeli regime is also trying to fabricate charges against journalists to justify their killing and to challenge any future international judicial prosecution that may hold it accountable for these crimes.
Earlier this week, the United Nations sounded a serious alarm about the high number of journalists killed in Gaza.
“Very concerned by high death toll of media workers in Gaza,” the UN rights office said in a post on X social media platform.
It added that killings of journalists in Gaza “must be thoroughly, independently investigated to ensure strict compliance with international law, and violations prosecuted.”
In late December, the Committee to Protect Journalists, a United States-based rights advocacy organization, described the Israeli aggression on Gaza as the most dangerous situation for journalists.
The first 10 weeks of the onslaught were the deadliest recorded ever for journalists, with the most journalists killed in a single year in one location, the body said.
Reporters Without Borders, a Paris-based press freedom group, has also filed two complaints with the International Criminal Court over the Israeli regime’s war crimes against journalists in Gaza.
