The government media office in Gaza announced on Tuesday that the number of journalist martyrs had risen to 97 since the start of the brutal war on the Strip on October 7.
The office reported in a statement that the death toll had risen following the martyrdom of journalist Adel Zorob as a result of the Israeli occupation bombing of his family’s home in the Rafah Governorate, south of the Gaza Strip.
The Gaza Media Office had previously accused the occupation of deliberately killing journalists with the aim of distorting the Palestinian narrative, trying to obscure the truth, and obstructing the delivery of news and information to regional and global public opinion.
Journalists’ cemetery
A few days ago, the international organization Reporters Without Borders described the Gaza Strip as a “cemetery for journalists,” where “Israel deliberately stifles the work of journalists and kills them, and practices various methods to hinder them in the field, in addition to displacement, siege, preventing foreign journalists from entering Gaza, cutting off the Internet, and sending threatening messages.” that reach them.
For the 74th day in a row, the Israeli army is waging a devastating war on Gaza that, as of Monday, left 19,453 martyrs and 52,286 wounded, most of them children and women, in addition to massive infrastructure destruction and an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe, according to Palestinian and UN sources.
