Journalists Suffering in Gaza
The war in Gaza continues to take a heavy toll on journalists since Hamas launched its unprecedented attack against Israel on October 7. The number of those killed reached at least 64 journalists and media workers, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, in a report.
An Al Jazeera journalist died as a result of his severe injury during an Israeli attack on the southern Gaza Strip after he had to wait for five hours to receive medical care, the channel reported to CNN, on Friday.
The Qatari network said that photographer Samer Abu Daqqa died from his wounds sustained in the attack, and added that he continued to bleed for hours, before medical teams were able to reach him, due to the violent bombing that the city witnessed. It indicated that Al Jazeera’s correspondent and the director of its office in Gaza, Wael Al-Dahdouh, was also injured in the attack.
Al-Dahdouh was eventually taken to hospital, but Abu Daqqa’s injury was so serious that he could not survive, according to Walid Al-Omari, Al Jazeera’s Jerusalem and West Bank bureau chief. He added: “Many people in Gaza are bleeding and dying because ambulances cannot reach them.”
The Committee to Protect Journalists investigates all reports of journalists and media workers killed, injured, or missing during wars, and this war has become the bloodiest for journalists since the Committee to Protect Journalists began collecting data in 1992.
Initial investigations conducted by the committee showed that at least 64 journalists and media workers were killed from the start of the war on October 7 until December 16, including 57 Palestinians, 4 Israelis, and 3 Lebanese.
Thirteen journalists were reported to have been injured. 3 journalists were reported missing. The arrest of 19 journalists was reported, in addition to numerous assaults, threats, cyberattacks, censorship, and the killing of family members.
CPJ is also investigating numerous unconfirmed reports of other journalists being killed, missing, detained, injured, or threatened, and of damage to media offices and journalists’ homes.
WHO Statement on the Gaza War
The Director-General of the World Health Organization, Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus, explained on 22 November that children and women represent 70% of those killed in the war on Gaza and that given that military measures cannot lead to a permanent solution, it is clear that a ceasefire and the pursuit of a political solution provide a way out of this crisis. Chaos and tragedy.
The Director-General of the World Health Organization renewed his call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, stressing the importance of seeking a political solution to get out of this tragedy.
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reiterated that Gaza is the most dangerous place in the world for children, noting that entire neighborhoods where children used to play and go to school have turned into piles of rubble, which confirms that children need immediate and permanent detention. To fire now.
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres described the Gaza Strip as a cemetery for children, as reports indicate that hundreds of children are killed and injured every day in the war in the Strip.
Casualties since October 7 in Gaza war( West Bank)
The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced (Sunday) that the Israeli forces have killed 297 Palestinians in the West Bank, including 70 children, since October 7.
They explained that the total number of victims since the beginning of the year in the West Bank reached 505 deaths, including 111 children, according to the Palestinian News Agency “Wafa.”
The Israeli army launched military operations in several areas in the West Bank coinciding with its war on the Gaza Strip.
Biden’s stance towards Gaza
US President Joe Biden’s warnings to Israel that it might lose the sympathy and support it received from the world after the Hamas attack on October 7 aroused great interest.
Biden had criticized what he described as Israel’s indiscriminate bombing of the Gaza Strip and called on Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to change his government by eliminating the most extremist elements in it, changing Israel’s military strategy, and clarifying its commitment to the two-state solution as a formula and goal for a peace process with the Palestinians in the future.
This was the frankest stance on the part of the US President against Netanyahu since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas, and it also came a few days after Washington stood alone in the Security Council and used its veto to drop a Council resolution stipulating an immediate ceasefire for humanitarian purposes.
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