Sana'a - Saba: The Zionist enemy army, supported by the United States and Europe, continues to commit the crime of genocide in the Gaza Strip, for the 388th consecutive day, by launching dozens of airstrikes and artillery shelling, while committing massacres against civilians, amid a catastrophic humanitarian situation resulting from the siege and the displacement of more than 95 percent of the population in the Strip.
In this context, a human rights observatory documented that the enemy army targeted shelters 39 times in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of October, during which 188 Palestinians were martyred and hundreds were injured, in a dangerous escalation of crimes targeting civilian gathering places, especially in the northern Gaza Strip; with the aim of forcibly emptying it of its Palestinian residents.
The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor said in a report today, Monday: Its field team documented the enemy army targeting schools, hospitals, clinics and halls used for shelter 65 times since the beginning of last August, 39 of which were during October, during which 672 Palestinians were martyred and more than a thousand others were injured.
The observatory indicated that 57 targets were in the northern Gaza Strip and Gaza City, while eight of them occurred in the central Gaza Strip.
The targets include shelling and direct shooting, killing forcibly displaced persons and their families, or forcing them to evacuate schools under fire or with forced displacement orders, and then burning or destroying these schools to make them uninhabitable or unsuitable for housing and preventing the return of the displaced to them.
It pointed out that the enemy's systematic policy of destroying shelters leads to further tightening the noose on the options available to the population regarding the places to which they can seek refuge, which facilitates the achievement of the goals of the Zionist enemy army, which are represented in destroying the Palestinians and forcibly displacing them and changing the demographic composition of the Strip, especially in northern Gaza, at a time when various official Zionist levels have explicitly expressed their intention to annex it and settle in it.
The Observatory team documented the dispersal of dozens of Palestinian families and the separation of their members from each other as a result of targeting shelters and the subsequent repeated waves of forced displacement, which doubled their psychological suffering, especially among children.
The Observatory confirmed that "targeting shelters is an essential part of the strategy followed by the enemy forces to undermine the social structures of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, and to continue to weaken the population psychologically and physically, and eliminate their common spaces that may contribute, even relatively, to providing psychological and social support."
It pointed out that its field team documented, yesterday afternoon, Sunday, the bombing of the "Asmaa" school, which houses thousands of displaced people, in the Al-Shati camp west of Gaza City, which led to the martyrdom of 11 Palestinians, including four journalists, two of whom were female journalists, and the injury of dozens of others.
This bombing came eight days after the enemy's aircraft bombed the same school, killing eight Palestinians and injuring others.
The human rights observatory renewed its call for all countries to "assume their international responsibilities to stop the crime of genocide and serious crimes committed by the Zionist enemy forces in the Gaza Strip, protect civilians there, and ensure that the enemy authorities comply with the rules of international law and the decisions of the International Court of Justice."
It also called for imposing effective sanctions on the Zionist enemy entity, and stopping all forms of political, financial and military support and cooperation provided to it, including an immediate cessation of the sale, export and transfer of weapons to it, including export licenses and military aid.
On the other hand, the government media office in Gaza announced that the number of Palestinian journalists who have been martyred since the beginning of the aggression on the Strip has risen to 182 journalists, following the assassination of four new journalists and the identification of a fifth martyr.
The office explained that the four journalists who were martyred on Sunday are: martyr journalist Saed Radwan, head of the digital media department at Al-Aqsa TV, and martyr journalist Hamza Abu Salmiya, who worked as a journalist for the "Sanad" news agency.
The two martyrs are journalist Hanin Mahmoud Baroud, who worked as a media professional and journalist for the Al-Quds Foundation, and journalist Nadia Imad Al-Sayed, who worked as a media professional, producer and presenter for several radio stations and media outlets.
The office also added the name of journalist Abdul Rahman Samir Al-Tanani, who was martyred earlier on October 18, 2023 in Jabalia camp, and was identified today as a journalist working with Zaman and Sawt Al-Shaab radio stations in addition to several other media institutions.
Observers confirm that the Zionist enemy army does not stop targeting Palestinian journalists, especially while committing crimes and invading different areas in the Gaza Strip, trying to assassinate the truth and image, silence the voice and stop the word with the aim of obliterating the features of its crimes and horrific massacres.
Since the beginning of the genocidal war waged by the enemy on the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, journalists in Gaza have faced great risks and continuous fighting by the enemy army, which indicates their great influence in exposing the enemy army to international public opinion, by documenting the horrific massacres of children and women and the extermination of families, as they were the voice and image of their people and the link with the world, this link that the occupation is trying to target and kill.
The Zionist enemy's war on journalists began from the first day of the aggression itself, as photographer Muhammad Al-Salihi was martyred while covering eastern Gaza on October 7, and two days later, journalists Saeed Al-Tawil and Hisham Al-Nawajha were martyred while covering the enemy's targeting of the "Hajji" tower located on the shore of Gaza City, and Muhammad Subh.
The targeting escalated until the enemy entered the stage of mass targeting of journalists, the latest of which was targeting a group of journalists while performing their professional duty at Asmaa "B" School in Al-Shati camp west of Gaza City, bringing the number of martyred journalists to 182 journalists.
The enemy army is detaining 12 journalists from the Gaza Strip in its prisons in difficult and humiliating detention conditions, according to what was published by the Palestinian Prisoners Club.
By targeting journalists, the Zionist enemy aims to silence the voices that convey the facts to the world, as the media in Gaza is an essential element in documenting events and exposing the crimes of the occupation, through photos, videos and reliable reports.
M.M