The government media office in Gaza announced, on Saturday evening, that the number of journalists killed by the Israeli occupation army since the beginning of its war on the Strip on October 7, 2023 had risen to 120 journalists.

The office said, in a brief statement: “The number of journalist killed has risen to 120 since the start of the genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, after the death of our colleague Iyad Ahmed Al-Rawag, a broadcaster and presenter on Sawt Al-Aqsa Radio, at the hands of Israeli treachery in the Nuseirat camp in the middle of the Strip.”

On January 18, the office announced that the number of journalists killed in the Gaza Strip had risen to 119, with the killing of Wael Abu Fununa, Director General of Al-Quds Satellite Channel, in an Israeli bombing that targeted Gaza City.

On Monday, the government office said in a statement that Israel “assassinates journalists in an attempt to distort the Palestinian narrative and obscure the truth.”

It pointed out in his statement that since the beginning of the war, Israel has arrested about 10 journalists whose names are known.