GAZA, (PIC)
Journalists and activists participated on Sunday in a sit-in organized by the Government Media Office (GMO) in central Gaza in solidarity with the Palestinian journalists and media professionals who work in the midst of the Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.
In his speech during the sit-in, GMO director Ismail Thawabteh called for necessarily facilitating the travel of wounded journalists to receive proper medical treatment abroad.
“The Israeli occupation army continues its war of genocide against our great Palestinian people — a war that has so far claimed the lives of more than 53,800 martyrs and missing persons, injured over 103,600 others and destroyed 15 vital sectors, most notably the health and the education sectors,” Thawabteh said.
Thawabteh added that the war of genocide also affected the media sector, saying the Israeli army killed 188 journalists and media professionals, injured 396 of them, kidnaped 40 others whose names are known, and destroyed headquarters and centers belonging to different news outlets.
“Today, we are standing during this solidarity sit-in to protest the crimes of killing and liquidation against our fellow journalists and media workers, the martyrs who are more honorable than all of us, and also to express our solidarity with our wounded colleagues, who need to travel to receive treatment in hospitals abroad,” Thawabteh stated
He appealed to the International Federation of Journalists, the Federation of Arab Journalists and all the organizations that defend the rights of journalists to intervene strongly and effectively to enable the wounded journalists in Gaza to travel for medical treatment abroad.
