JI March Approved Gaza Strike Kills 5 Journalists
Following negotiations with the district administration, JI has been granted permission to hold the million march at Jinnah Avenue in the New Blue Area.
Two rounds of talks were held between the JI and district administrations. JI wanted to conduct the million march in the city’s center, while the administration had been pressing to keep the show at Sangjani, Tirnol.
The development came as today a Palestinian TV channel said five of its journalists were martyred Thursday in an Israeli strike on their vehicle in Gaza.
A missile hit the journalists’ broadcast truck as it was parked in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, according to a statement from their employer, Al-Quds Today.
The channel identified the five staffers as Faisal Abu Al-Qumsan, Ayman Al-Jadi, Ibrahim Al-Sheikh Khalil, Fadi Hassouna, and Mohammed Al-Lada’a.
Palestinian TV says Israeli strike kills 5 journalists in Gaza
They were killed “while performing their journalistic and humanitarian duty”, the statement said.
“We affirm our commitment to continue our resistant media message,” it added.
The Israeli military claimed in its statement that it had conducted “a precise strike on a vehicle with an Islamic Jihad cell inside in the area of Nuseirat”.
According to witnesses in Nuseirat, a missile fired by an Israeli aircraft hit the broadcast vehicle, which was parked outside Al-Awda Hospital, setting the vehicle on fire and killing those inside.
The Committee to Protect Journalists’ Middle East arm said the organization was “devastated by the reports that five journalists and media workers were killed inside their broadcasting vehicle by an Israeli strike”.
“Journalists are civilians and must always be protected,” it added in a statement on social media.
The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate said last week that more than 190 journalists had been martyred and at least 400 injured since the start of the war in Gaza.
Israel’s military campaign has killed at least 45,361 people in Gaza, a majority of them civilians, according to figures from the territory’s health ministry that the UN considers reliable.
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