Rayhan Uddin – Middle East Eye Dec 26, 2024
An Israeli air strike killed five Palestinian journalists in a clearly marked vehicle outside a hospital in central Gaza, according to Palestinian authorities and multiple media reports.
The journalists from Al-Quds Today were outside al-Awda Hospital in the Nuseirat refugee camp when their van was struck by an Israeli strike on Thursday morning.
Images from the scene show a white-coloured van with the word “press” clearly written in large red letters, engulfed in flames.
“The van was entirely burnt and destroyed. It was fully engulfed in flames,” Middle East Eye’s reporter Hani Aburezeq said from the scene.
The slain journalists were Fadi Hassouna, Ibrahim al-Sheikh Ali, Mohammed al-Ladah, Faisal Abu al-Qumsan and Ayman al-Jadi.
adi had gone to al-Awda Hospital with his wife, who was giving birth to their first child.
According to the Wafa news agency, while waiting for his wife, he decided to check in on his colleagues who were outside the hospital in the vehicle.
His brother, photographer Omar al-Jadi, documented the moments after the Israeli strike hit the vehicle.
“Guys, Ayman is inside. Ayman, my brother, is martyred,” he shouted in the video as he helplessly filmed the burning van.
Aburezeq said: “Our colleague Ayman was here because his wife was about to deliver a baby. Tragically, he was martyred on the same day his son was born.”
Al-Quds Today condemned the attack and said its reporters were killed “while performing their journalistic and humanitarian duty”.
Gaza’s government media office also condemned the killings, calling on the international community and rights groups to condemn Israeli crimes and prosecute them in international courts.
Israel’s military confirmed that it carried out the strike, claiming it targeted a vehicle carrying members of Palestinian Islamic Jihad. However, it provided no evidence to support its claim.
Since Israel’s war on Gaza began over a year ago, the military has, on several occasions, killed journalists and later claimed they were fighters, often providing no evidence or evidence that has been widely questioned.
In one example, when Israeli forces killed Al Jazeera journalist Ismail al-Ghoul on 31 July, they claimed he was a Hamas fighter who had received a military ranking in 2007 – when he would have been just 10 years old.
Al Jazeera also noted that Ghoul had been detained by Israel earlier during the war and subsequently released without any charges.
“The Israeli army is targeting journalists to instil fear amongst them, but our colleagues remain steadfast and will not stop broadcasting what is happening here,” said Aburezeq.
According to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), at least 141 journalists have been killed since the war began.
Palestinian officials put the figure of journalists in Gaza killed by Israeli forces since October last year at 201.
The number of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza is nearing 45,400, according to the Palestinian health ministry. The majority of those killed were women and children.
somebody please bomb tel aviv
Sadiq Khan’s knighthood is an insult. Here’s why – Steve Tuckwell
Opinion by Steve Tuckwell News that Sadiq Khan is set to receive a knighthood in the King’s New Year Honours List will surprise many Londoners, particularly those in Uxbridge & South Ruislip.
As someone who has campaigned tirelessly against Khan’s racist anti uk policies,
Mass murderer Tony Blairs knighthood was a great evil
I find these recognitions difficult to reconcile with their records, But as Mayor of London. Take, for instance Uxbridge Police Station.
In 2017, Khan announced its closure which saw a 6-year campaign by local Conservatives to keep it open. During the 2023 Uxbridge by-election – Khan performed a spectacular U-turn in announcing the Station would be re-opened just days before by-election polling day.
This promise (or election bribe) that was never fulfilled. The station remains shut, leaving a critical gap in local policing. How can someone who failed to deliver on such a vital issue for public safety be deemed worthy of such an honour?https://www.gbnews.com/politics/reform-uk-party-nigel-farage-election-2670656019'It is concerning!’ Tories are finished as Reform UK ‘gaining ground’ with surges of new voters
THANKS HOUTHIS
israeli attorney general wants investigation into Sara Netanyahu
Story by DPA •
Israel’s Attorney General has called for an investigation into the wife of Prime Minister Benjamin Nutanyahu.
Sara Nutenyahu became famous when the Muppets TV programme lampooned her as ” Miss Piggy”
The background to this is the suspicion that Sara Netanyahu obstructed the judiciary and influenced and threatened witnesses, several Israeli media outlets reported Thursday, citing the office of Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara. Sara Netanyahu is alleged to have instructed demonstrators to attack the house of an important witness in the criminal case against her husband. The witness filed a complaint against Mrs Nutanyahu.
A television report by the Israeli channel Channel 12 recently published text messages between Sara Netanyahu and one of her husband’s advisers who died last year, which are said to contain the accusations. The prime minister has been on trial for corruption for more than four years. Benjamin Nutanyahu is charged with fraud, embezzlement threats and bribery. The accusations against him include that he granted the telecom giant Bezeq privileges when he was communications minister. He is also said to have accepted luxury gifts from billionaire friends for political favours He now faces arrest for genocides and mass murder
Filthy jews doing what filthy jews do.
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It looks like no news is good news, at least not for these journalists in Gaza killed by Israeli forces!🤢
Too bad its all a hoax. Notice they never show us the bodies of these supposed dead Arabs & Jews.
expect soon AshkeNAZI/Chasaristanis
holocausti blessings on Europeans with
USbabylons help .
cornelius
why doesn’t your eurasian ghoul bomb tel aviv? he had no problem bombing syria.
Brummit–just in case people get mixed up, “No news is good news” originally meant that if you do not hear anything, there is probably less to worry about than if you did