October 7, 2024
Huda Hegazi, teleSUR correspondent in Gaza, Oct. 2024. Photo: teleSUR.
On Monday, the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS) confirmed that Palestinian journalists and media outlets have suffered 1,600 attacks in the past 12 months.
Since October 2023, the number of journalists killed in Gaza and Lebanon by Israeli occupation forces has reached 175, a figure that surpassed the number of journalist killings since 1992, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.
According to the Gaza Government Press Office, 175 media workers were killed between October 7, 2023, and October 4, 2024. Additionally, Palestinian authorities are investigating 130 cases of alleged killings, detentions, or injuries.
On Monday, the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS) confirmed that Palestinian journalists and media outlets have suffered 1,600 attacks in the past 12 months.
On Sunday, dozens of people gathered in central Ramallah, called together by the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate, to denounce the crimes committed by Israeli forces. Among the most recent crimes was the killing of 19 year old journalist Hassan Hamad, who died in a bombing at the Jabalia refugee camp. Human rights defenders have documented 514 victims within the families of journalists, 124 journalists detained, and dozens of reporters injured, some of whom lost their sight or suffered amputations.
“Journalists, especially media correspondents, are among the main targets of the Zionist army,” said Huda Hegazi, the teleSUR correspondent in the Gaza Strip. “We have spent 365 days covering the Israeli genocides day after day and going through the same hardships as the rest of the people in Gaza,” she stated, adding that the past year has been one of the most difficult in her personal and professional life.
At times, she has found herself without shelter, food, water, or a bathroom. She has also spent a year separated from her family, who are in the northern Gaza Strip, while she traveled to various southern regions, such as Deir al-Balah, Rafah, and Khan Younis.
“As a woman, it has been difficult to live. At first, I had no place to take shelter and spent seven months sleeping in a car. Now I live in a very small tent. Nevertheless, I have always had one goal: not to give up, to keep covering the Israeli atrocities, and to show the world what Israel is doing in the Gaza Strip. That’s why I keep going, but my wish is for this war to end as soon as possible,” Hegazi stressed, recalling that the Israeli army has been cutting communications for several weeks to hinder the work of journalists.
Source: Telesur