A Palestinian author, poet and journalist has been killed in an Israeli air strike in northern Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp, in line with his household, taking the overall variety of journalists killed within the Israel-Palestine battle since October 7, 2023 to 220.
Mohammad Hijazi was amongst almost 90 Palestinians slain in Israeli bombardment throughout the besieged territory within the final 24 hours, in line with a Gaza Well being Ministry assertion on Sunday.
Lots of of individuals have been killed within the Jabalia camp since Israel imposed a army siege of northern Gaza on October 5 and intensified bombardment, forcing hundreds to flee. Israel has prevented even assist teams from supplying primary meals gadgets to the realm.
“I don’t know if I’ll write to you once more. I maintain what I’ve written and am writing. Perhaps it’ll come to mild at some point. I refuse an affordable demise. I curse the assassin,” Hijazi wrote on Facebook in August of final yr.
“Allow us to on this backside that we have now lastly reached, arm ourselves with persistence and prayer, and depend the times we have now lived as a historic achievement, whereas awaiting what’s coming with a damaged coronary heart, an extinguished eye, a head held excessive, and a spirit that fights till the top of the highway.”
It was not instantly clear whether or not Hijazi was working for a particular media organisation when he died.
For the reason that starting of its battle on Gaza on October 7, 2023, Israel has killed at least 220 journalists and media employees, together with Hijazi.
In the meantime, Gaza’s Well being Ministry reported on Sunday that a minimum of 88 Palestinians had been killed and 208 others injured up to now 24 hours.
The most recent fatalities convey the demise toll of Palestinians killed by Israeli assaults in Gaza to a minimum of 45,805 since October 2023, whereas an estimated 109,064 have been injured.
Amongst these killed within the newest Israeli strikes throughout Gaza on Sunday had been three Palestinians who had been dwelling in a tent in Deir el-Balah, in line with Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud, reporting from central Gaza.
A household of 15 individuals had been additionally buried beneath the rubble within the northwest of Gaza Metropolis, following a separate strike, Mahmoud reported.
“The Palestinian Civil Defence is doing its finest to take away our bodies from beneath the rubble, however has solely eliminated 4 of the relations,” he stated.
“It’s estimated there are a minimum of 15 relations beneath the three-storey constructing that was flattened to the bottom.
“These repeated assaults – deliberate in opposition to households – proceed to unfold, inflicting extra tragedies amongst Palestinians.”
“I refuse to die cheaply… I curse the killer.”
This morning, author and journalist Mohamed Hijazi, the creator of those phrases, was killed by the Israeli military in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza. #GazaGenocide pic.twitter.com/LWsCak8IPr
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Within the final three days, Israeli forces have killed greater than 200 individuals in Gaza, Mahmoud famous.
The previous few remaining hospitals throughout Gaza at the moment are overwhelmed, he added.
On the emergency division at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah, many individuals had been left on the ground and others had been ready to be admitted into the working theatre, Mahmoud stated.
“By the point it’s their flip, it’s too late – they’ve already bled to demise. [Many] burns are fairly extreme, and no ache remedy is on the market on the hospital,” he stated.
“There’s a silent demise happening. Previously weeks, as a result of ongoing assaults, persons are dying quietly due to the shortage of medical provides.”
On Sunday, the Israeli army claimed that it had struck greater than 100 “terror targets” within the Gaza Strip over the previous two days. A number of of the strikes focused websites from which Palestinian fighters had been firing projectiles into Israel in latest days, the army stated.
The most recent violence in Gaza comes as oblique negotiations for a captive launch deal resumed in Qatar.
Mediators Qatar, Egypt and america have been engaged for months in efforts to strike a deal to finish the battle and safe the discharge of dozens of captives nonetheless held in Gaza.
Israel has detained greater than 10,000 Palestinians since launching its devastating battle, which has introduced it world condemnation. Rights teams have termed Israel’s army offensive as a genocide, whereas the Worldwide Courtroom of Justice (ICJ), the highest United Nations courtroom, stated in March 2024 that the Israeli operation “plausibly” amounted to genocide.
Seperately, the Worldwide Prison Courtroom (ICC) has issued arrest warrants in opposition to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant.
