Wednesday, March 8, marked another bloody day for media workers in the West Asia region, after Israel assassinated a journalist in the Gaza Strip, and two media figures in Lebanon.
Israel assassinates Al Jazeera Mubasher correspondent in Gaza
Al Jazeera Mubasher correspondent, Mohammed Wishah, was killed when an Israeli drone strike targeted a car which he was traveling in on al-Rashid Street, west of Gaza city.
Wishah is one of at least 262 journalists killed by Israel in the besieged enclave, since Israel started its genocidal aggression on October 7, 2023 according to the Government Media Office in Gaza.
Al Jazeera Media Network denounced the killing of its journalist, affirming that it “ was not a random act but a deliberate and targeted crime intended to intimidate journalists and prevent them from carrying out their professional duties.”
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Two Lebanese media figures were murdered in Israel’s recent massacres in Lebanon
Two Lebanese media workers were murdered that same day in the massacres that Israel committed in different parts of Lebanon.
Suzan Khalil, a presenter and producer for Al-Manar channel and Al-Nour radio, was killed in an Israeli airstrike on the town of Kayfoun, in the coastal governorate of Mount Lebanon.
Al Manar and Al Nour mourned Khalil in a joint statement, in which they pledged to “preserve the blood” of all media workers assassinated by Israel, and to “consecrate their message”.
The two media outlets also reaffirmed their “commitment and steadfastness to the word of truth and defending the truth and its people, no matter the cost.”
Meanwhile, Lebanese journalist, presenter and reporter, Ghada Dayekh, of Sawt al-Farah radio station died when an Israeli airstrike targeted the building where she lived, in the southern coastal city of Tyre.
Sawt al-Farah described the death of Dayekh as an agonizing tragedy, which silenced a media voice that resonated for 37 years, dispatching honest and humanitarian messages to every home.
The death toll of media workers killed by Israel in Lebanon since October 2023 was estimated at 22 earlier in March. After the killing of Khalil and Dayekh, the tally has risen to 24.
Death toll of media workers killed by Israel across West Asia nears 320
During its all-out multi-front aggression on different parts of the West Asia region in the past two and a half years, Israel has also killed dozens of media workers in Yemen and a number of others in Iran.
This suggests that the tally of media workers murdered by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) across the region since October 2023, nears 320.
Israel is the biggest killer of journalists, says CPJ chief
Jodie Ginsberg, the chief executive officer of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), condemned Israel’s targeted killing of journalists during an interview with Al Jazeera English on Wednesday.
Commenting on the assassination of Wishah, Ginsberg said:
“Unfortunately, that is a pattern that we have seen consistently since October the 7th.”
She added that the killing of at least 262 journalists in Gaza during the past two and a half years “makes Israel the biggest killer of journalists”, since CPJ started documenting such deaths in 1992.
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