Milan, August 25 (LaPresse) – "The blood of our martyred journalists in Gaza has not yet dried when the Israeli occupation forces committed another crime against Al Jazeera cameraman Mohammed Salama, along with three other photojournalists." This statement was released by Al Jazeera Media Network in a press release published on the broadcaster’s website, after an Israeli strike hit the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, causing, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health, 20 deaths, including 4 journalists.
The reference to previous incidents concerns the killing just two weeks ago, on August 10, of another Al Jazeera journalist, correspondent Anas al-Sharif, who was killed by Israel, which accused al-Sharif of leading a Hamas cell—an accusation both Al Jazeera and al-Sharif himself have rejected as unfounded.
In today’s statement, Al Jazeera Media Network called for “international pressure and immediate action to prevent Gaza’s voice from being silenced through the systematic killing of its journalists under the world’s watchful eyes.”
Among the four journalists killed in today’s attack on the Nasser Hospital is Mariam Dagga, 33 years old, who had been working as a freelance correspondent for the Associated Press and other media since the beginning of the war in Gaza. Al Jazeera also confirmed that its journalist Mohammed Salama was killed. Reuters reported that its cameraman Hussam al-Masri was killed and its photographer Hatem Khaled was injured. According to Al Jazeera, the fourth journalist killed was Moaz Abu Taha of NBC.
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