At least 79 journalists and media workers have been killed in the Gaza Strip since October 7 due to the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas. According to the data confirmed by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), the victims include 72 Palestinians, 4 Israelis and 3 Lebanese. Furthermore, in the same period, 16 journalists and media workers were injured, 3 were missing and 21 were reportedly arrested.
He is also among the latest victims Hamza Dahdouh, the 27-year-old son of the editor-in-chief in Gaza of the Qatari broadcaster Al Jazeera, Wael Dahdouh, who on 25 October had already lost his wife Amna, his 15-year-old son Mahmoud, his 7-year-old daughter Sham and his grandson Adam, who was only one year old. Hamza was also killed in an Israeli shelling near al-Mawasi, in the western part of Khan Younis in southwestern Gaza. A missile hit the car he was traveling in, killing another journalist, 20-year-old Mustafa Thuraya, and injuring a third passenger.
But the war continues to claim victims even among minors. According to the NGO Save The Children, on average, every day over 10 children in the Strip lose one or both legs. According to Unicef, since 7 October more than 1,000 minors have right away the amputation of at least one limb in the Palestinian coastal territory. Many of these interventions then, like reports the World Health Organization (WHO), were performed without anesthesia due to the paralysis of the health system in Gaza caused by the ongoing conflict. According to data collected by the Hamas-controlled Gaza authorities, the Israeli offensive has already caused almost 23 thousand deaths, forced 85 percent of the 2.3 million inhabitants to abandon their homes and left a quarter of its residents to die Of hunger.
The death toll also continues to rise in the West Bank. Yesterday, a three-year-old Palestinian girl was killed by mistake in north Jerusalem. On the evening of January 7, near the Palestinian village of Biddu, the Israeli police fired at a van driven at full speed towards a checkpoint, killing the two attackers and fatally wounding the minor who was traveling in another vehicle.
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