“This attack (…) is part of a systematic targeting campaign targeting the channel’s journalists and their families since October 2023,” the Qatari channel denounced in a statement published on Wednesday.
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Al Jazeera condemned the deaths of two of its journalists, killed on Wednesday July 31 during an Israeli strike on the Gaza Strip, denouncing in a statement a “cold-blooded murder”The Qatari channel said its correspondent for Al Jazeera Arabic, Ismail al-Ghoul, and cameraman Rami al-Refee had been “targeted by Israeli occupation forces” during their coverage of the situation in the al-Shati refugee camp in Gaza City.
“This attack on Al Jazeera journalists is part of a systematic targeting campaign targeting the channel’s journalists and their families since October 2023.”Al Jazeera added. Since the start of the war between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas in the Gaza Strip on October 7, Al Jazeera has been providing continuous on-the-ground coverage of the effects of the Israeli offensive on the Palestinian territory. Its Gaza bureau has already been bombed and two other correspondents killed.
The deaths of al-Ghoul and al-Refee highlight “the urgent need for immediate legal action against the occupying forces”according to the channel. Al Jazeera also assured that it would “take all possible legal action to prosecute the perpetrators of these crimes” and expressed his “unwavering solidarity with all journalists in Gaza”. Hamas denounced a “heinous crime”arguing in a statement that Wednesday’s strike was aimed at “terrorize and silence” Palestinian journalists, who report on “the ongoing genocide against our people in the Gaza Strip for almost ten months”.
