In the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah on Wednesday, Palestinian journalists and local authorities staged a protest against Israeli attacks on Gaza media workers, according to AFP journalists. Carrying coffins with the names and images of journalists slain in the Gaza Strip since the conflict began on October 7, 2023, dozens of journalists and Palestinian officials marched towards the city’s UN offices.
The head of the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate, which organized the event, Nasser Abu Baker, stated, “Every single one of them has his own story. An Israeli airstrike outside Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City in August killed Anas Al Sharif, a well-known correspondent for the Qatari news network Al Jazeera in the Gaza Strip, among others. Israel claims Sharif “posed as a journalist,” while the UN and media rights organizations have vehemently denounced his murder, arguing he was actually “the head of a terrorist cell.”
Following the speeches, Abu Baker assured the UN envoy in Ramallah that he would deliver a letter requesting that Secretary General Antonio Guterres take action “to protect our journalists in Gaza because they are under the fire, under the bombing strike, in a very dangerous situation, on a daily basis.
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