About 30 individuals gathered on Monday on the hospital to face round Muharab’s physique, which was laid on the bottom below a white plastic tarpaulin on which a bulletproof jacket marked “Press” was laid like a wreath, AFPTV footage confirmed.
Contacted by AFP, the Israeli military declined to touch upon this particular case with out receiving the geographic coordinates for the situation of Muharab’s dying and his identification card.
“The (Israeli military) has by no means, and can by no means, intentionally goal journalists,” a spokesperson for the military instructed AFP.
The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate condemned Muharab’s “assassination” and accused the Israeli military of main an “organised marketing campaign … to kill journalists” in Gaza.
Gaza journalist Ibrahim Qanan, who was on the hospital, accused Israel of “killing the reality by making an attempt to wipe out all traces of transmission in direction of the surface world of what’s taking place within the Gaza Strip”.
The Israeli military has killed a number of journalists in Gaza it accused of belonging to Hamas or Islamic Jihad’s armed branches.
The Committee to Defend Journalists (CPJ) reported on Monday that “at the very least 113 journalists and media staff” have been killed for the reason that starting of the war between Israel and Hamas that began on Oct 7.
This constitutes the “deadliest interval for journalists for the reason that CPJ started gathering knowledge in 1992”.
