Press in Palestine
Title: No Protection At All (Press in Palestine)
Subject: Gaza, Rafah, Palestine, and Israeli Apartheid and Genocide
Created: 2024
Medium: Graphic Design
Software: Adobe Illustrator CC
Dimensions: 48″x36″
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““We will get killed, it is just a matter of when…These uniforms and helmets don’t protect us. Nothing protects journalists,” said Palestine TV reporter Salman Al Bashir, while removing his press vest and helmet on-air, while the news channel’s anchor sobbed in the studio.
The two journalists had lost their colleague journalist Mohammed Abu Hatab moments ago, in an Israeli airstrike on his home in South Gaza’s Khan Younis on November 2. Eleven members of his family were also killed.
Until half an hour ago, he had been reporting alongside Bashir from Gaza’s Nasser Hospital.
Haftab has joined a list of at least 31 journalists who have been killed in the Israel-Palestine violence since October 7, as per the Committee to Protect Journalists. Of these, four were killed in Israel, one in Lebanon and 26 in Gaza. More than 10,000 people have been reportedly killed in Gaza, while the toll in Israel is over 1,400.”
– News Laundry, ‘No protection at all’: Palestinian reporter removes press vest on air after colleague killed
“Five Palestinian journalists have been killed in different locations across the Gaza Strip in the past few hours, the Gaza government media office said on Saturday, Anadolu Agency reports.
In a statement, the media office said that the new fatalities brought to 158 the number of Palestinian journalists killed in Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7, 2023.
The government media office and human rights organizations have warned multiple times that the Israeli army has been deliberately targeting Palestinian journalists since the start of the war on Gaza to prevent the reporting of its “crimes” in the region.
According to data and statistics from the International Committee to Protect Journalists, a New York-based NGO, the war on Gaza has become “the bloodiest for journalists” since the committee began documenting journalist killings worldwide in 1992.”
– Middle East Monitor, 5 Palestinian journalists killed in Gaza in past few hours: Media office
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