Media extermination in Gaza.

The government’s media office in the Gaza Strip considered that the Israeli occupation had committed a “systematic media extermination” against journalists and media institutions, since its attack on the Gaza Strip 19 months ago.

The office said, in a statement on the eve of International Press Liberty Day, which fell on May 3, that Gaza journalists are killed live with the weapons of the Israeli occupation.

On May 3, each year, International Press Freedom Day, was located in the United Nations decision on December 20, 1993.

The declaration added that today, that the world allocates each year to celebrate freedom of expression, “greets Gaza with blood, hunger, tears and ashes”.

He explained that if the world celebrates the freedom of the press, the blood of the Palestinian media in the streets of Gaza is bombed, their headquarters and their cars are bombed, their pens and cameras are broken, their houses are targeted and they are sometimes buried with their families under the rubble, only because they have decided to transfer the truth.

A bloody result

The statement stressed that the number of journalists who have been killed since the start of the Israeli genocide in Gaza reached 212 journalists, including journalists, photographers and publishers working in local and international media, while 409 others were injured, some of which were subjected to torture and torture treatments, in addition to the arrest of 48 journalists.

The press release added that 143 media institutions were targeted, including 12 paper newspapers, 23 electronic newspapers, 11 radio channels and 4 satellites, in addition to the destruction of 12 Arab and international satellite channels.

He also underlined the destruction of 44 houses for journalists, the martyrdom of 21 media activists on communication platforms, the bombing of presses, the destruction of broadcasting equipment, cameras and direct transport vehicles, as well as blocking dozens of digital accounts and platforms under the pretext of “violating the standards”.

The office estimated the losses of the media sector in Gaza at more than $ 400 million, due to what it described as “a complete war that targeted humans, stone, image, sound and word”.

The media office, the United Nations, the Human Rights Council, journalists without borders, and all the international bodies concerned by press freedom, called for the opening of an “immediate and independent investigation into the crimes committed against journalists”.

He also called for the provision of urgent international protection for Palestinian journalists and to break the blockade of the media imposed on the Gaza Strip.

Claims to stop crimes

For its part, the Palestinian journalists’ union called for the suspension of Israeli crimes against journalists from the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank.

The union called for the liberation of journalists from the Israeli occupation detention centers, the restoration of life for journalistic work in Gaza, the reconstruction of the media seat and local radio institutions and the supply of the ingredients necessary for this.

It urged the implementation of the international principle to prevent the perpetrators of journalists and perpetrators of crimes against them, by accelerating legal legal measures to hold the leaders of the responsible Israeli occupation and refer to them.

The union said that the world celebrates May 3 during World Press Freedom Day, while Palestine witnesses the most terrible and heaviest media extermination in history, implemented by the Israeli war machine.

She explained that the Israeli occupation still stops 55 journalists out of 177 who have been arrested since October 7, 2023.

Like around 2.4 million Palestinians in the surrounding Israeli sector for 18 years, journalists in Gaza and their families face great risks, starting by targeting and killing with the daily suffering of the siege, famine, thirst and difficulty achieving the right to treatment.

Israel has committed American support since October 7, genocide crimes in Gaza, who have resulted in death and injuries of more than 170,000 Palestinians, including thousands of children and women, and more than 11,000 missing.