A 28 year old Palestiniana cameraman and journalist for the Cairo-based Al-Gad Arab TV network, breathed his last yesterday, Sunday 14/1, the network announced, attributing his death to a blow by the Israeli army.
“It is with heavy hearts that we announce that Al-Gad cameraman Yazan al-Zawaidi has been killed by Israeli fire” while he was “in the north Gaza Strip“, the television network announced via X (the former Twitter), without giving further details.
Before the young cameraman and journalist, at least 82 other journalists and media professionals, the vast majority of them Palestinians, were killed after the Israel/Hamas war broke out on October 7; according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).
Last Monday, the UN said it was “very concerned” about this “high toll”.
Last Tuesday, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) said for his part that crimes against journalists are included in his investigation into war crimes in the Gaza Strip.
Israel's civil-military leadership has vowed to “annihilate” Hamas, the Islamist movement in power in the Gaza Strip, after its military arm launched an unprecedented attack on southern sectors of the Israeli territory that killed an estimated 1,140 people, mostly civilians, according to a count of AFP based on official announcements.
In the military operations carried out by Israel since then, as reported by the Athens News Agency citing AFP, at least 23,968 people were killed, the majority of them women and children, according to the latest tally by the Health Ministry of the Hamas government.
Source: News Beast
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