The Government Media Office in the Gaza Strip announced on Wednesday that the number of killed Palestinian journalists has risen to 190, since Israel began its genocidal war on October 7, 2023.

He said in a statement: "The number of killed journalist has risen to 190 journalists, male and female, since the beginning of the genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, after the announcement of the martyrdom of Alaa Fawzi Barhoum, a journalist editor in several media institutions."

The government office condemned the "targeting, killing and assassination of Palestinian journalists by the Israeli occupation," holding it fully responsible for committing "this heinous crime."

It called on "the international community, international organizations, and those concerned with journalistic work in the world to deter the occupation and prosecute it in international courts for its ongoing crimes and pressure it to stop the crime of genocide and the crime of killing and assassinating Palestinian journalists."

With American support, Israel has been committing genocide in Gaza since October 7, 2023, leaving about 149,000 Palestinian dead and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 10,000 missing, amid massive destruction and famine that killed dozens of children and the elderly, in one of the worst humanitarian disasters in the world.

The Israeli occupation continues its massacres, ignoring the UN Security Council resolution to end them immediately, and the orders of the International Court of Justice to take measures to prevent acts of genocide and improve the catastrophic humanitarian situation in Gaza.