QPC condemns Israeli killing of journalist and her family in Gaza

Tawfik Lamari

December 12, 2024 | 

GULF NEWS


Journalist Iman al-Shanti

The Qatar Press Center (QPC) has condemned in the strongest terms the killing of journalist Iman al-Shanti and her family on Wednesday, in the Israeli occupation's bombing of her apartment in a building in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood, northwest of Gaza City.

The centre renewed its call on the international community, UN, human rights and media organisations to condemn the targeting of journalists and their families in Gaza with killing, arrest and intimidation. The QPC also called for the prosecution of the Israeli occupation and holding it accountable for war crimes against journalists and media professionals, and to pressure it to stop the crimes of genocide and stop the assassination of Palestinian journalists.

The centre called on the international community to pressure Israel to release journalists detained in Israeli prisons, who are suffering from dire conditions that deprive them of the most basic rights of prisoners stipulated in international laws and conventions.

The centre expresses its surprise at the continued international silence of the United Nations, human rights and media institutions regarding the deliberate and systematic targeting of journalists and media professionals in Gaza, bringing the number of martyrs to 193 journalists since the beginning of the brutal aggression on Gaza, which has been ongoing since October 7, 2023.

The number of Palestinian journalist martyrs who died as a result of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip has risen to 193, after the announcement Wednesday of the martyrdom of journalist Iman.

Local sources said that Iman, who worked as a broadcaster on the local Al-Aqsa Voice Radio, was martyred along with her husband and three children, while a number of the injured were transferred to hospital. The last words the martyr wrote three hours before her death on her official account on the “X” platform were: “Is it possible that we are still alive? May God have mercy on the martyrs.”

The occupation forces deliberately target journalists and media institutions. During the aggression, about 400 journalists were injured and 40 others were arrested. The occupation forces also destroyed most of the headquarters of local and international news institutions operating in the Gaza Strip and forced all local radio stations to close due to displacement and the lack of the elements of journalistic work, especially electricity and the Internet.