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Jordan News
2 days ago
- Politics
- Jordan News
33 Palestinian Journalists Martyred in Gaza and the West Bank Since the Start of 2025 - Jordan News
The semi-annual report on press freedoms, issued Sunday by the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate, revealed that Israeli forces killed 33 journalists from the beginning of 2025 until the end of June. The report documented a total of 739 violations against journalists in both the West Bank and Gaza Strip during the same period. اضافة اعلان Mohammad Al-Lahham, Head of the Syndicate's Freedoms Committee, emphasized during a press conference in Ramallah that the report sheds light on the deteriorating state of journalism amid ongoing massacres against the Palestinian people in both regions, and the escalating Israeli crimes targeting journalists. Al-Lahham stated that the first half of 2025 witnessed a major escalation in attacks on journalists, with 41 of their family members killed, 32 homes demolished, and 66 journalists injured, mostly by live ammunition or missile shrapnel. He stressed that these attacks have become increasingly brutal compared to last year, with assaults occurring even in shelters, tents, and hospitals—clear evidence, he said, that targeting journalists is a deliberate political decision. The report also recorded the arrest of 25 journalists, an alarming rise in direct gunfire incidents, and a drop in tear gas-related injuries, replaced by more severe wounds from bullets. Furthermore, there were 228 documented cases of journalists being detained or prevented from covering events, reflecting a systematic policy of information suppression. Al-Lahham affirmed that freedoms are indivisible: 'Journalists in Gaza are being killed, while their colleagues in the West Bank face settler terrorism and attacks by occupation forces,' citing the brutal beating of journalist Issam Al-Rimawi by settlers as a recent example. He commended the Palestinian Bar Association for pursuing legal documentation of Israeli crimes against journalists, and praised its collaboration with the General Union of Palestinian Writers and Authors. For his part, Nasser Abu Baker, head of the Journalists Syndicate, noted that the Freedoms Committee regularly issues monthly, semi-annual, and annual reports documenting violations against journalists in the West Bank, including Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip. He stressed that the syndicate remains a guardian of press freedoms and will continue to support journalists, particularly in Gaza. He highlighted the urgent appeal launched by the syndicate on behalf of Gaza's journalists and people, who continue to face famine and genocide, all while fulfilling their reporting duties amid relentless bombardment and deprivation of basic needs. Abu Baker called on the international community to act immediately to save more than two million people in Gaza, who are suffering from starvation, thirst, and slow death, including the journalists who persist in their coverage despite genocidal conditions. He urged the media worldwide to ensure the broadest possible coverage of the genocide and starvation affecting the more than two million besieged Palestinians in Gaza, describing the situation as unprecedented in modern history. Finally, he noted that the committee's reports serve as essential references for the International Federation of Journalists and other global media organizations, and are submitted to relevant UN bodies to expose Israel's crimes, demand accountability, and seek international justice.
Saba Yemen
15-05-2025
- Politics
- Saba Yemen
39 Martyrs in Zionist Airstrikes on Gaza Strip
Gaza - (Saba): Thirty-nine Palestinian citizens, most of them children and women, were martyred and dozens were injured at dawn on Thursday in Zionist airstrikes targeting several areas in the Gaza Strip. Local sources told the Palestinian News Agency that 27 of the martyrs were killed in numerous airstrikes that targeted several homes in Khan Yunis. The bodies of the martyrs and dozens of injured—mostly children—were taken to Nasser Medical Complex. The sources confirmed that the occupying forces bombed a house near Rafah Garage belonging to the Al-Lahham family, another on Abu Khater Street near the Islamic University east of Khan Yunis, and a third belonging to the Al-Zaytani family near Al-Najjar carpentry at the entrance of Hamad City, north of Khan Yunis. The sources also reported that the enemy forces targeted a house belonging to the Al-Bayouk family in central Khan Yunis, and another belonging to the Kawarik family in the European Housing area east of Khan Yunis. Additionally, a cluster of homes belonging to the Al-Amour family in the town of Al-Fukhari near Khan Yunis was also hit. The Zionist enemy also bombed a house belonging to the Abu Taimah family near the Asqalan School in the town of Abasan al-Kabira, and targeted the Abu Hudaf area east of the town of Al-Qarara. The sources further confirmed that five martyrs were killed and a number of citizens were injured as a result of an airstrike on a house belonging to the Shihab family in the town of Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip. Whatsapp Telegram Email Print more of (International)
Sunday World
15-05-2025
- Politics
- Sunday World
Overnight Israeli air strikes kill at least 40 people including women and children
No humanitarian assistance has been delivered to Gaza since March 2 A Palestinian man walks on the rubble of the Al-Zainati family's home, destroyed by Israeli airstrikes in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, on Thursday, May 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana) Palestinians inspect the rubble of the Al-Zainati family's home, destroyed by Israeli airstrikes in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, on Thursday, May 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana) Palestinians inspect the rubble of the Al-Lahham family's home, destroyed by Israeli airstrikes in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, on Thursday, May 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana) An injured Palestinian man bids farewell to his relatives killed in Israeli strikes, at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, May 15, 2025. REUTERS/Hatem Khaled Palestinians inspect the rubble of the Al-Lahham family's home, destroyed by Israeli airstrikes in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, on Thursday, May 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana) Injured Palestinian child, Yousef Al-Bayouk, weeps over his brothers, Moath and Moataz, who were killed in Israeli strikes, as mourners attend their funeral, at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, May 15, 2025. REUTERS/Hatem Khaled Israeli military strikes killed at least 60 people in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, Palestinian medics said, as the United States and Arab mediators pushed for a ceasefire deal and U.S. President Donald Trump visited the Middle East. Most of the victims, including women and children, were killed in Khan Younis in southern Gaza in airstrikes that hit homes and tents, they said. The dead included local journalist Hassan Samour, who worked for the Hamas-run Aqsa radio station and was killed along with 11 family members when their home was struck, the medics said. There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military, which has intensified its offensive in Gaza as it tries to eradicate Hamas in retaliation for the deadly attacks the Palestinian militant group carried out on Israel in 2023. Palestinians inspect the rubble of the Al-Lahham family's home, destroyed by Israeli airstrikes in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, on Thursday, May 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana) Israel carried out the latest strikes on the day Palestinians commemorate the "Naqba", or catastrophe, when hundreds of thousands of people fled or were forced to flee their hometowns and villages during the 1948 Middle East war that gave birth to the state of Israel. With most of the 2.3 million people in Gaza internally displaced, some residents of the tiny enclave say suffering is greater now than at the time of the Nakba. "What we are experiencing now is even worse than the Nakba of 1948," said Ahmed Hamad, a Palestinian in Gaza City who has been displaced multiple times. "The truth is, we live in a constant state of violence and displacement. Wherever we go, we face attacks. Death surrounds us everywhere." Violence Palestinian health officials say the Israeli attacks have escalated since Trump started a visit on Tuesday to the Gulf states of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates that many Palestinians had hoped he would use to push for a truce. An injured Palestinian man bids farewell to his relatives killed in Israeli strikes, at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, May 15, 2025. REUTERS/Hatem Khaled The latest strikes follow attacks on Gaza on Wednesday that killed at least 80 people, local health officials said. Little has come of new indirect ceasefire talks between Israel and Hamas led by Trump's envoys and Qatar and Egyptian mediators in Doha. Hamas says it is ready to free all the remaining hostages it is holding in Gaza in return for an end to the war, while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prefers interim truces, saying the war can only end once Hamas is eradicated. Palestinians inspect the rubble of the Al-Zainati family's home, destroyed by Israeli airstrikes in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, on Thursday, May 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana) Israel invaded Gaza in retaliation for the Hamas-led attack on southern Israeli communities on October 7, 2023, in which about 1,200 people were killed and 251 were taken as hostages to Gaza, according to Israeli tallies. Palestinians inspect the rubble of the Al-Lahham family's home, destroyed by Israeli airstrikes in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, on Thursday, May 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana) Israel's military campaign has killed more than 52,900 Palestinians, according to local health officials. It has left Gaza on the brink of famine, aid groups and international agencies say. A U.S.-backed humanitarian organisation will start work in Gaza by the end of May under an aid distribution plan, but has asked Israel to let the United Nations and others resume deliveries to Palestinians now until it is set up. A Palestinian man walks on the rubble of the Al-Zainati family's home, destroyed by Israeli airstrikes in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, on Thursday, May 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana) No humanitarian assistance has been delivered to Gaza since March 2, and a global hunger monitor has warned that half a million people face starvation in Gaza, about a quarter of the population.
