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Al Etihad
30-07-2025
- Politics
- Al Etihad
Thirty-five Palestinians seeking aid killed by Israeli gunfire across Gaza
31 July 2025 00:39 GAZA (WAM)Thirty five Palestinian civilians were killed and dozens injured by Israeli gunfire near aid centres in several areas across the Gaza Strip, according to medical another context, the Palestinian Journalists' Syndicate said the number of journalists killed in Gaza has risen to 232 since Israel launched its military campaign on October 7, 2023. It called on the international community to take immediate action to protect journalists and hold those responsible for these crimes accountable.
BBC News
30-04-2025
- Politics
- BBC News
Israeli forces arrest prominent Palestinian journalist in West Bank
The Palestinian Journalists' Syndicate has condemned the arrest of a prominent local journalist by Israeli forces in the occupied West al-Samoudi, who has worked extensively with Western media, was detained during a raid on his son's home in the northern city of Jenin early on 58-year-old was interrogated for half an hour at an unknown location and was later transferred to an Israeli hospital due to a deterioration in his health, his son Mohammed Israeli military said Samoudi was "identified with the [Palestinian] Islamic Jihad terrorist organisation" and "suspected in the transfer of funds" to it, without giving any evidence. His family strongly denied his involvement and said that in his long career he had never previously faced such an said Israeli authorities had not told them the name of the hospital where he was being treated or any other is expected to be brought before a military court next Israeli military separately announced on Tuesday that security forces had detained a total of 24 wanted individuals "involved in the transfer of funds to terrorist organisations", including three from Jenin, during raids across the West May 2022, Samoudi was working with the Palestinian-American Al Jazeera correspondent Shireen Abu Aqla when she was shot dead by an Israeli sniper at the entrance to Jenin refugee camp. He was shot and wounded in the to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), Israeli forces have arrested at least 79 journalists in the West Bank and Gaza since the start of the Gaza war in October 2023, while Palestinian authorities have arrested five 176 journalists, almost all of them Palestinian, have been killed in Gaza, the West Bank, Israel and Lebanon during the war, the organisation says.
