RAMALLAH, Aug 9 (Bernama-WAFA) -- Official Palestinian Media on Friday (Aug 9) mourned Palestine Voice Radio correspondent Tamim Muammar who was killed along with a large number of his family in an Israeli airstrike on their house in Khan Younes, the Palestinian news agency (WAFA) reported.
The Official Palestinian Media stated in a press release that targeting Palestinian journalists together with their families is an integral part of the Israeli genocidal war against the Gaza Strip and pledged that Palestinian journalists and media personnel would continue to convey the suffering of the Palestinian people in the occupied territories.
It called on international media and humanitarian organisations to not only issue generic statements of condemnation but to take immediate action to hold Israeli perpetrators of war crimes accountable and bring them before the International Criminal Court.
Israel has proceeded with its genocidal offensive on the war-torn Strip in complete disregard of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which ordered Israel in a legally binding decision to halt its military offensive in Rafah, which may violate its obligations under the Genocide Convention.
Israel has been waging a devastating war on Gaza since Oct 7, killing at least 39,699 Palestinians, mostly children and women, and injuring over 91,722 others.
Moreover, at least 10,000 people are unaccounted for, presumed dead under the rubble of their homes throughout the Strip.
Palestinian and international organisations say that the majority of those killed and wounded are women and children.
The Israeli aggression has also resulted in the forceful displacement of nearly two million people from all over the Gaza Strip, with the vast majority of the displaced forced into the densely crowded southern city of Rafah near the border with Egypt – in what has become Palestine’s largest mass exodus since the 1948 Nakba.
-- BERNAMA-WAFA
