The Journalists Syndicate said that the number of dead the journalistic family since the beginning of the Israeli genocide war has risen to (212) male and female journalists, following the death of colleagues Yahya Subaih and Nour El-Din Abdo in the Gaza Strip today, Wednesday.

The union added in a statement that this is a deliberate targeting aimed at breaking the voice of truth and silencing the Palestinian narrative through a policy of field executions of journalists, destroying media institutions, and depriving the world of witnessing what is happening in Gaza.

She explained that "while the world celebrates World Press Freedom Day, and the slogan of protecting journalists and preserving freedom of expression is raised, the Israeli occupation continues to commit its heinous crimes against Palestinian journalists, who pay with their lives for conveying the truth and exposing the occupation's ongoing crimes against our people in the Gaza Strip."

The Syndicate mourns with deep sorrow and grief the martyrdom of two colleagues, journalist Yahya Subaih, who was killed in a direct Israeli bombardment of the Thai restaurant west of Gaza City, just hours after the birth of his first child, and journalist Nour El-Din Abdo, who was martyred in an Israeli bombardment targeting Al-Karama School in the Al-Tuffah neighborhood east of Gaza while performing his professional and humanitarian duty in covering the events.

She stressed that this repeated and systematic targeting of journalists constitutes a full-fledged war crime under international humanitarian law and the Geneva Conventions, holding the occupation fully responsible for these flagrant violations.

She called on the international community, the Security Council, and the International Criminal Court to take immediate action to open urgent investigations, hold the perpetrators of these crimes accountable, and end the policy of impunity that encourages the occupation to persist in its crimes.

The Syndicate continued in its statement: “On World Press Freedom Day, which is supposed to be an occasion to promote the protection of journalists and freedom of expression, the Palestinian journalist is paying with his life because he chose to be a voice for the victims and an image of the truth. We call on all free journalists and media institutions in the world to stand with their colleagues in Palestine, raise their voices loudly against the crimes of the Israeli occupation, and support the Palestinian media, which is facing the aggression with an unbreakable will and a lens that does not neglect.”