GAZA: An Israeli occupation airstrike on the city of Gaza Wednesday evening killed Al Jazeera correspondent Ismail Al-Goul and photojournalist Rami Al-Riffy.
Al-Ghoul and Al-Riffi were covering news from atop the rubble of the house of the late Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in the Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza, just before their vehicle was targeted by an Israeli airstrike, which decapitated Al-Ghoul’s head.
Israel has proceeded with its genocidal offensive on the war-torn Strip in complete disregard of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which ordered Israel in a legally binding decision to halt its military offensive in Rafah, which may violate its obligations under the Genocide Convention.
Israel has been waging a devastating war on Gaza since October 7, killing at least 39,445 Palestinians and injuring over 91,073 others.
Moreover, at least 10,000 people are unaccounted for, presumed dead under the rubble of their homes throughout the Strip.
Palestinian and international organizations say that
the majority of those killed and wounded are women and children.
The Israeli aggression has also resulted in the forceful displacement of nearly two million people from all over the Gaza Strip, with the vast majority of the displaced forced into the densely crowded southern city of Rafah near the border with Egypt – in what has become Palestine’s largest mass exodus since the 1948 Nakba.
Source: Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA