‘I refuse a cheap death’: Israel kills Palestinian journalist in Gaza

A Palestinian writer, writer and writer has been killed successful an Israeli aerial onslaught successful bluish Gaza’s Jabalia exile camp, according to his family, taking the full fig of journalists killed successful the Israel-Palestine struggle since October 7, 2023 to 220.

Mohammad Hijazi was among astir 90 Palestinians slain successful Israeli attacks crossed the besieged territory successful the past 24 hours, according to a connection from the Gaza Ministry of Health connected Sunday.

Hundreds of radical person been killed successful the Jabalia campy since Israel imposed a subject siege of bluish Gaza connected October 5 and intensified bombardment, forcing thousands to flee. Israel has prevented adjacent assistance groups from supplying basal nutrient items to the area.

“I don’t cognize if I volition constitute to you again. I support what I person written and americium writing. Maybe it volition travel to airy 1 day. I garbage a inexpensive death. I curse the murderer,” Hijazi wrote connected Facebook successful August past year.

“Let america successful this bottommost that we person yet reached, limb ourselves with patience and prayer, and number the days we person lived arsenic a historical achievement, portion awaiting what is coming with a breached heart, an extinguished eye, a caput held high, and a tone that fights until the extremity of the road.”

It was not instantly wide whether Hijazi was moving for a circumstantial media organisation erstwhile helium died.

Since the opening of its warfare connected Gaza connected October 7, 2023, Israel has killed astatine slightest 220 journalists and media workers, including Hijazi.

The Health Ministry reported connected Sunday that astatine slightest 88 Palestinians had been killed and 208 others injured successful Gaza successful the past 24 hours.

Meanwhile, different babe died from the acold successful Gaza, arsenic displaced Palestinians deficiency lukewarm apparel and are forced to unrecorded successful tents that supply small extortion from the weather.

The child’s parent told Al Jazeera that her baby, Yousef, was calved healthy, but helium became the eighth babe to dice successful Gaza successful caller days owed to the cold.

“They didn’t springiness a azygous infinitesimal to consciousness blessed with my baby,” she said. “He slept adjacent to maine and successful the greeting I recovered him frozen and dead. I don’t cognize what to say. No 1 tin consciousness my misery. No 1 successful the satellite tin recognize our catastrophic situation.”

The latest fatalities bring the decease toll of Palestinians killed by Israeli attacks successful Gaza to astatine slightest 45,805 since October 2023, portion an estimated 109,064 person been injured.

Among those slain successful Israeli strikes crossed Gaza connected Sunday were 3 Palestinians who were surviving successful a structure successful Deir el-Balah, according to Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud, reporting from cardinal Gaza.

A household of 15 radical was besides buried nether the rubble successful the northwest of Gaza City, pursuing a abstracted strike, Mahmoud reported.

“The Palestinian Civil Defence is doing its champion to region bodies from nether the rubble, but has lone removed 4 of the household members,” helium said.

“It’s estimated determination are astatine slightest 15 household members nether the three-storey gathering that was flattened to the ground.

“These repeated attacks – deliberate against families – proceed to unfold, causing much tragedies among Palestinians.”

“I garbage to dice cheaply… I curse the killer.”

This morning, writer and writer Mohamed Hijazi, the writer of these words, was killed by the Israeli service successful Beit Lahia, bluish Gaza. #GazaGenocide pic.twitter.com/LWsCak8IPr

— Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده (@RamAbdu) January 5, 2025

In the past 3 days, Israeli forces person killed much than 200 radical successful Gaza, Mahmoud noted.

The past fewer remaining hospitals crossed Gaza are present overwhelmed, helium added.

At the exigency section astatine Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital successful Deir el-Balah, galore radical were near connected the level and others were waiting to beryllium admitted into the operating theatre, Mahmoud said.

“By the clip it’s their turn, it’s excessively precocious – they person already bled to death. [Many] burns are rather severe, and nary symptom medicine is disposable astatine the hospital,” helium said.

“There’s a soundless decease going on. In the past weeks, owed to the ongoing attacks, radical are dying softly due to the fact that of the deficiency of aesculapian supplies.”

On Sunday, the Israeli subject claimed that it had struck much than 100 “terror targets” successful the Gaza Strip implicit the past 2 days. Several of the strikes targeted sites from which Palestinian fighters had been firing projectiles into Israel successful caller days, the subject said.

The latest unit successful Gaza comes arsenic indirect negotiations for a captive merchandise woody resumed successful Qatar.

Mediators Qatar, Egypt and the United States person been engaged for months successful efforts to onslaught a woody to extremity the warfare and unafraid the merchandise of dozens of captives inactive held successful Gaza.

Israel has detained much than 10,000 Palestinians since launching its devastating war, which has brought it planetary condemnation. Rights groups person termed Israel’s subject violative arsenic a genocide, portion the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the apical United Nations court, said successful March 2024 that the Israeli cognition “plausibly” amounted to genocide.

Seperately, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued apprehension warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his erstwhile Defence Minister Yoav Gallant.