Every time a journalist is killed, injured, arrested, or forced to go to exile, we lose fragments of the truth. Those responsible for these casualties face dual trials: one under international law and another before history’s unforgiving gaze
Emmanuel Thomas I Monday, September 30, 2024
DIER AL BALAH, Gaza – The Israeli Defence Forces, IDF continued to carry out targeted attacks on journalists covering the ongoing genocidal war in Gaza, with Wafaa Ali Al-Adini being the 174th journalists to be killed by Israel for using their profession to expose its atrocities in Palestine.
Wafaa Ali Al-Adini was killed with her husband and her two children when the IDF bombed their home in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip at dawn.
Her death makes her the 174th journalist to be killed by Israel in the Gaza Strip since October 8th, 2023, when Israel invaded Gaza in war of revenge against the Palestinian Resistant Movement, Hamas which carried out an operation in Israel, during which about 1, 200 Israelis were killed.
Israel has killed almost 42,000 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip since October 8, destroyed infrastructures and rendered Gaza almost uninhabitable.
The Committee to project journalists, CPJ says Journalists in Gaza face particularly high risks as they try to cover the conflict, including devastating Israeli airstrikes, famine, the displacement of 90% of Gaza’s population, and the destruction of 80% of its buildings.
CPJ said it investigating more than 130 additional cases of potential killings, arrests and injuries.
According to CPJ, “Since the war in Gaza started, journalists have been paying the highest price – their lives – for their reporting. Without protection, equipment, international presence, communications, or food and water, they are still doing their crucial jobs to tell the world the truth,” said CPJ Program Director Carlos Martinez de la Serna in New York.
“Every time a journalist is killed, injured, arrested, or forced to go to exile, we lose fragments of the truth. Those responsible for these casualties face dual trials: one under international law and another before history’s unforgiving gaze.”
Journalists are civilians and are protected by International Law. Deliberately targeting civilians constitutes a war crime.
