The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate said that 11 journalists were martyred, and more than 20 others were injured, since the beginning of the ongoing Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, on October 7th.

The union’s report, issued by the Freedoms Committee, today, Monday, stated that the journalist martyrs were: Ahmed Shehab, programmer for Voice of Prisoners Radio, photojournalist Mohamed Al-Salhi from the Fourth Estate Agency, photojournalist Mohamed Fayez Abu Matar, and “Khabar” agency photographer Hisham Al-Nawajah. Muhammad Abu Rizq, Ain Media Foundation photographer Ibrahim Lafi, editor-in-chief of the Fifth News Agency Saeed Al-Taweel, journalist Muhammad Jarghouth from Smart Media Agency, journalist Asaad Shamlikh, journalist Salam Mayma, and jou rnalist Hossam Mubarak.

The Union indicated in her report that there are two journalists whose traces have been lost, namely: photojournalist Nidal Al-Wahidi, who works as a producer with Al-Najah TV, and journalist Haitham Abdel Wahed from the Ain Media Media Foundation.

He pointed out that more than 20 journalists were injured in the ongoing aggression, while about 20 houses owned by journalists were bombed, some of which were completely destroyed and others were partially destroyed.

The Journalists Syndicate said that about 50 headquarters and centers of media institutions were bombed, including: the offices of Al Jazeera Network, Palestine TV, the French Agency office, Al-Aqsa Media Network, Ma’an News Agency, Sawa Agency, Shihab Agency, Al-Quds newspaper, Radio Baladna, and Zaman Radio. The National Agency, Khabar Agency, Al-Ayyam newspaper, Event Media Services Company, Fadl Shanaa Foundation, Holy Quran Radio, Shams News Agency, and the APA office.

It stressed that the continued interruption of electricity and the Internet in the Gaza Strip limited the ability of journalists to continue their coverage of the Israeli aggression.

In its report, the Syndicate touched on violations in the West Bank and Jerusalem, and noted that many journalistic crews were beaten, arrested, detained, prevented from covering, and fired upon. It recorded 10 cases of shooting, the last of which targeted journalists Yazan Hamayel and Wahhaj Bani Mufleh in the town of Beita, south of Nablus, in addition to the arrest of 4 journalists, namely: Abdel Nasser Al-Laham, Sabri Jabr, Moaz Amarneh, and Mustafa Al-Khawaja, after the occupation forces raided their homes. There were also 22 cases of detention and prevention of crews from working, 10 beating attacks, and 7 cases of seizing and destroying journalists’ equipment, in addition to jamming the channel’s broadcast. Fourth and hacked. Al-Aqsa Channel was also stopped broadcasting on the Eutelsat satellite.

It pointed out that many journalists were subjected to direct threats and incitement campaigns from Israeli pages on social media platforms, as happened with journalist Muthanna Al-Najjar from Gaza, as well as journalist Muhammad Turkman from the West Bank, in addition to monitoring many publications calling for the liquidation of journalists, describing them as “saboteurs.” And terrorists,” and an armed colonist’s threat to the Al-Arabi TV broadcaster was monitored live.