Israel killed a Palestinian journalist along with 42 family members in an airstrike in the besieged Gaza City of Palestine. The name of the deceased journalist is Mohammad Abu Hasira. He was working for the Palestinian news agency Wafa.
On Tuesday (November 7), WAFA reported that Israeli forces carried out airstrikes targeting Abu Hasira's house in the west of Gaza City on Sunday and Monday. Abu Hasira and 42 members of his family were killed.
Abu Hasira's son and brother are also among the dead. However, the identity of all of them has not been found yet. The Hamas media office said Abu Hasira's body was recovered from the rubble of his home.
In addition to Abu Hasira, another journalist was killed in an Israeli attack in Gaza on Tuesday. The Gaza authorities said that the journalist's name was Yahya Abu Minya. He used to work at Al Aqsa Radio.
According to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), an international organization that works on the rights of journalists, 49 journalists and media workers have been killed in the Gaza Strip as of Tuesday (November 7), including two new journalists.
Meanwhile, the number of Palestinian lives in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank has exceeded 10,000 in the last indiscriminate attack by Israel. Out of which 4 thousand 104 are children. Another 30,000 Palestinians were injured.
70 percent of Gazans are now refugees
Israel's indiscriminate and incessant airstrikes have turned the Palestinian Gaza Strip into a virtual shambles over the past month. As a result, most of the residents lost their homes and land. Reports say that 70 percent of the population are now refugees. They are now staying either under the open sky or in various shelters.
Gaza is a land on the Mediterranean Sea. Which is one of the most densely populated and poor regions in the world. About 23 lakh people live here. After coming under the control of Hamas in 2007, Israel imposed a total blockade on it. which is still ongoing. This is why it is often called the 'world's largest open air prison'.
After that, Israel started airstrikes on Gaza from October 7. After that, the ground operation started from October 22 through the border. Thus the whole world is witnessing how the devastation has been and is being done in Gaza for the past month. More than 10,000 innocent Palestinians have already been killed. About 30,000 more were injured.
Ordinary Palestinians have left or been forced to leave their homes and land to escape the attacks. According to the media office of Hamas, 70 percent of Gazans have already been displaced. According to the report, 1.6 million of the 2.3 million inhabitants have left their homes. Most of them are now staying in refugee camps or shelters as refugees.
According to a statement from the Gaza media office, 10 percent of the buildings in Gaza were completely destroyed by Israel's continuous air and ground operations. Besides, about 50 percent of the houses have been damaged. It also said that half of Gaza's hospitals and 62 percent of health care facilities have been closed due to the Israeli occupation.
Satellite companies are strict about publishing pictures of devastated Gaza
Satellite companies have imposed restrictions on the publication of images of the Gaza Strip devastated by Israel's attack. The companies are accused of not providing any satellite images of Gaza to news agencies. However, they continue to provide similar pictures or images of the war in Ukraine.
Israel has been carrying out indiscriminate airstrikes on the Gaza Strip for the past month. All of Gaza has been reduced to rubble. Thousands of Palestinians were killed. Then on October 22, Israeli forces started a ground operation. Satellite imagery is very important for understanding the situation in the entire region, including Gaza.
But the companies that provide these images to the news media have imposed restrictions on providing images of Gaza. According to a report by Al Jazeera, satellite company Planet Labs has stopped providing high-resolution photos or images to customers. US news website Semaphore also reported on the matter.
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