{"id":301024,"date":"2024-12-27T08:04:27","date_gmt":"2024-12-27T08:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=301024"},"modified":"2024-12-29T09:12:07","modified_gmt":"2024-12-29T09:12:07","slug":"israel-kills-five-journalists-in-clearly-marked-press-vehicle-in-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=301024","title":{"rendered":"Israel kills five journalists in clearly marked press vehicle in Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rayhan Uddin \u2013 Middle East Eye Dec 26, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n

An Israeli<\/a> air strike killed five Palestinian<\/a> journalists in a clearly marked vehicle outside a hospital in central Gaza, according to Palestinian authorities and multiple media reports.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Images from the scene show a white-coloured van with the word “press” clearly written in large red letters, engulfed in flames.<\/p>\n

“The van was entirely burnt and destroyed. It was fully engulfed in flames,” Middle East Eye’s reporter Hani Aburezeq said from the scene.<\/p>\n

The slain journalists were Fadi Hassouna, Ibrahim al-Sheikh Ali, Mohammed al-Ladah, Faisal Abu al-Qumsan and Ayman al-Jadi.<\/p>\n

adi had gone to al-Awda\u00a0Hospital with his wife, who was giving birth to their first child.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

His brother, photographer Omar al-Jadi, documented the moments after the Israeli strike hit the vehicle.<\/p>\n

\u201cGuys, Ayman is inside. Ayman, my brother, is martyred,\u201d he shouted in the video<\/a> as he helplessly\u00a0filmed the burning van.<\/p>\n

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.”<\/p>\n

Al-Quds Today condemned the attack and said its reporters were killed “while performing their journalistic and humanitarian duty”.<\/p>\n

Gaza’s government media office\u00a0also condemned the killings, calling on the international community and rights groups to condemn Israeli crimes and prosecute them in international courts.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

In one example, when Israeli forces killed Al Jazeera journalist\u00a0Ismail al-Ghoul<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

Al Jazeera also noted that Ghoul had been detained by Israel earlier during the war and subsequently released without any charges.<\/p>\n

“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.<\/p>\n

According to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), at least 141 journalists have been killed since the war began.<\/p>\n

Palestinian officials put the figure of journalists in Gaza killed by Israeli forces since October last year at 201.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The number of media workers killed covering the ongoing conflict now exceeds 200<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":301026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42,37,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-301024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-controlling-the-news-andor-the-free-exchange-of-ideas-and-information","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies","category-The_Media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=301024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301025,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301024\/revisions\/301025"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/301026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=301024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=301024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=301024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}