The Palestinian Media Forum announced, on Saturday, that the number of killed journalist in Gaza has risen to 195, since Israel began its genocide on October 7, 2023.

The Forum (a non-governmental organization) said in a statement: “The number of martyred journalists has risen to 195, after the death of journalist Mohammed Balousha, a correspondent for Al-Mashhad TV (a private Lebanese channel), as a result of Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip.”

It added: "On the path of freedom paved with blood and sacrifices, and in order to support the oppressed Palestinian people and convey their suffering to the world, journalist Balousha was killed as a result of a treacherous Israeli bombardment," without further details.

The forum denounced "the international silence and inability to protect Palestinian journalists and ensure that they are able to perform their professional duty, in accordance with international laws and humanitarian conventions."

With American support, Israel has been committing genocide in Gaza since October 7, 2023, leaving more than 151,000 Palestinian dead and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 11,000 missing, amid massive destruction and famine that killed dozens of children and the elderly, in one of the worst humanitarian disasters in the world.

Israel continues its massacres, ignoring two arrest warrants issued by the International Criminal Court on November 21 against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Galant, for committing war crimes and crimes against humanity against Palestinians in Gaza.