Source: CCTV news client
On April 12, local time, Palestinian sources said that three Palestinian journalists were attacked by Israeli forces while reporting on Al-Nusayreit in the central Gaza Strip.
Hamas, for its part, accused it of being yet another deliberate Israeli attack on journalists. Israel has not responded to the attack.
After the attack on the 12th, three injured journalists were taken to the hospital, one of them was seriously injured and his right leg was blown off, and the other two suffered minor injuries.
Journalist who was attacked: What happened in the northern part of the Nusayret camp? We were covering the displaced civilians in the camp, and we were at a crossroads while we were filming our interviews, and unfortunately a group of journalists were targeted, and my journalist colleague Sami Shehada was injured. Unfortunately, his right leg was broken.
Attacked journalist Sami Shehada: We were filming at the time of the attack, I don't know if it was a missile or a tank that blew us up, I saw that my leg was broken. I was wearing a vest with the word "media" on it, a helmet, and anyone could tell I was a journalist. I was far away from the danger zone, I was far away, I was surrounded by civilians and journalists.
The Hamas media office issued a statement saying that Israeli forces attacked journalists with visible media badges on them. The statement condemned the deliberate attacks on journalists by the Israeli army, calling them "criminal acts against media workers." Israel has not responded to the attack.
Data shows that more than 100 journalists have been killed in attacks in the Gaza Strip since the outbreak of a new round of Palestinian-Israeli conflict on October 7 last year. UN human rights experts have previously warned that journalists have the right to be protected as civilians under international humanitarian law and that targeted attacks and killings of journalists are war crimes, while urging the safety of all journalists and prompt, independent and impartial investigations into the killings of every journalist.
(Source: CCTV News Client)