PNN – Israel’s attack on a residential house in Gaza resulted in the martyrdom of 22 family members of Al Jazeera news channel reporter.
According to the International group of Pakistan News Network, Al Jazeera news channel reported that one of the journalists of this media lost 22 members of his family in an Israeli airstrike on the house where they were sheltering.
Al-Jazeera news channel wrote: “Members of the family of Al-Jazeera Arab reporter Maaman al-Shorfi were killed in the Jabalia camp in northern Gaza.”
The attack that led to the testimony of this journalist’s family members happened on Wednesday morning. His parents, siblings and their wives and nieces and nephews are among the martyrs of this incident.
Al-Shorfi told Al-Jazeera that a barrel carrying explosives hit the house and caused a deep hole in the ground.
He said that none of the aid workers were able to recover the bodies of his family members. Al-Shorfi said: “We have been deprived of saying goodbye to our loved ones, and we have been denied proper burial of their bodies.”
A video released after the attack shows one of Al-Shorafi’s relatives walking on the ruins of the bombed house.
“The house seems to have been bombed at 4 or 5 in the morning,” said the person. We couldn’t get here until after sunrise. “Several children have been killed.”
Al-Shorafi has provided Al-Jazeera with the audio of the last voice message his mother sent him before martyrdom.
In this voice message, he says to his son: “Salaam Alaikum.” Good morning Maamen. How are you? Hope you are well. How are your wife and children? How is your health? “Take care of yourself, my son.”
He continues: “May God keep you safe from this war. Take care of yourself. I miss you. I pray for you every day.”
In a statement, Al Jazeera media network condemned this Israeli attack and said that it will take all legal measures to hold the perpetrators of this crime accountable.
Al Jazeera’s statement stated that “this terrible incident” took place on Wednesday morning in the Jabalia camp, where the journalist’s family had taken refuge.
Al-Jazeera asked the international community and media organizations to immediately put an end to these killings and to bring justice to the families of these martyrs and innocent victims.
This is not the first event for Al Jazeera journalists. On October 25, the air strike of the Israeli regime led to the martyrdom of several family members of another journalist of this network.
Since the beginning of operations in Gaza, the Israeli regime has started a war with the media – even the media inside occupied Palestine – to cover up the facts of this war.
A few weeks ago, Israel’s Minister of Finance, Shalom Karhi, accused Haaretz newspaper of “defending Israel during the war” and asked for fines to be considered for this newspaper.
Among the fines considered for this newspaper is canceling the subscription of this newspaper for Israeli government institutions and taking some other measures.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet last month activated some “emergency laws” in order to shut down foreign media whose reports he considers harmful. The law allows targeted media outlets to be shut down for at least 30 days.
The main purpose of this bill was to shut down the Al-Jazeera TV channel, which played a major role in clarifying some of the facts of Gaza. But Netanyahu’s cabinet finally rejected that plan because of the hope it had in those days for Qatar to advance the prisoner exchange negotiations.
On November 13, The Times of Israel reported that Netanyahu’s cabinet prevented Al-Mayadeen TV from operating inside occupied Palestine by citing this bill.
A week later, on November 21, the Israeli regime killed two journalists of this media in an airstrike in southern Lebanon. “Farah Omar” and “Rabih Al-Moammari” were targeted and lost their lives while covering the clashes between Hezbollah and Israel in southern Lebanon.
A day later, the “Committee to Protect Journalists” demanded an independent investigation into the possibility that this attack on al-Mayadeen journalists was intentional. The committee’s statement said: “Journalists are civilians who are doing important work in times of crisis and should not be targeted by warring parties.”
Dissemination of news in Israel’s domestic media also faces various obstacles. The Times of Israel reported that any information about security and intelligence issues must be approved by Israel’s main censor, General Kabi Mandelbit, before being published in traditional and virtual media.
The Israeli regime has killed more than 16,200 people and injured tens of thousands of others during the operation it started in Gaza about two months ago. The attacks of the Israeli regime started after the so-called “Aqsa Storm” operation by Hamas.
On October 7th, the Islamic resistance movement of Palestine, Hamas, in response to more than seven decades of occupation of Palestine and nearly two decades of siege of Gaza and imprisonment and torture of thousands of Palestinians, started the operation known as “Al-Aqsa Storm”.
This operation was one of the deadliest attacks against this regime. Hamas fighters penetrated into the occupied territories at several points of the border fences, attacked the villages and besides killing a large number of Israelis, captured a number of them.
In response to this operation, the Zionist regime launched heavy attacks against Gaza and put this area under complete siege. Despite this, as analysts say, the Al-Aqsa operation has imposed a major security-political-economic defeat on Israel.
Recently, the Bloomberg news network website announced by collecting new statistics that more than a third of the companies of the Zionist regime have not yet resumed their business after the shock of the Gaza war.