Watan-The Israeli Occupation Forces Targeted a Palestinian Journalist During a Live Broadcast with Al Jazeera, Adding to the Ongoing Series of Attacks on Journalists in the War on Gaza.
Photojournalist Mohammed Shihin stated that he was targeted by an Israeli missile on Monday while live-streaming scenes from the Sheikh Radwan area on Al Jazeera.
“قامت قوات الاحتلال الإسرائيلي باستهدافي مباشرة بصاروخ”..في حالة ذهول الصحفي محمد شاهين يروي تفاصيل ما تعرض له #الجزيرة_مباشر #غزة #غزة_لحظة_بلحظة pic.twitter.com/d3fJyBhE3w
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He added that while he was broadcasting in the eastern area of Jabalia, he was targeted by a missile that fell just a few meters away from him. Mohammed Shihin explained that, were it not for a large piece of rock that shielded him from the effects of the strike, he might have lost his life instantly.
Mohammed Shihin held the Israeli occupation authorities responsible for targeting him, despite his attire revealing the nature of his journalistic work. He highlighted the damages caused by the bombing, particularly the destruction of all the tools he used in his journalistic work.
Death of Journalists in Gaza
The official media office in the Gaza Strip previously announced the martyrdom of two Palestinian journalists in an Israeli airstrike in the northern part of the territory.
With this tragic incident, the number of martyr journalists in Gaza rises to 103 since the beginning of the Israeli brutal war on the region. The media office stated in a press release that this increase followed the martyrdom of colleague journalist Mohammed Younes Al-Zaytouniya, the sound engineer at Radio Al-Raya Al-Filistiniya, and journalist Mohammed Abdul Khaliq Al-Af, a photographer at the local Al-Raya Agency, due to an Israeli bombardment in the Gaza governorate.
Since October 7th of the past month, the Israeli occupation army has been waging a destructive war on Gaza, resulting in, as of Monday, 20,674 martyrs and 54,536 injuries, mostly among children and women.
The war has caused massive destruction to infrastructure and an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe, according to the authorities in the Gaza Strip and the United Nations.