After the death of two more Palestinian journalists in the Gaza Strip, the United Nations said today that it was “very concerned” about the “high number of media workers”. The office of UN Human Rights Commissioner Volker Türk called for a “thorough and independent investigation” via X (Twitter). According to information from NGOs, at least 79 journalists and employees of media companies have died since the start of the war on 7 October.
“Strict compliance with international law” must be guaranteed and violations “criminally prosecuted”, the UN Human Rights Office said.
Al-Jazeera said 27-year-old journalist Hamsa al-Dahdu and his colleague Mustafa Thuria, who also works for the AFP news agency and other international media outlets, were victims of a “targeted attack on their car”. . A third journalist was seriously injured.
Israel: dead journalists were in terrorists' car
The Israeli army said the attack targeted a “terrorist” in the car. According to the Israeli army, the son of a well-known Al-Jazeera correspondent who was killed in a rocket attack in the Gaza Strip was traveling in a vehicle with a Palestinian militant.
“An Israeli warplane identified and attacked a terrorist who used a missile that endangered Israeli troops,” the statement said today.
The incident occurred yesterday in the south of the besieged Gaza Strip. “We are aware of reports that two other suspects who were in the same car as the terrorist were also hit,” the army said.