About 30 people gathered on Monday at the hospital to stand around Muharab’s body, which was laid on the ground under a white plastic tarpaulin on which a bulletproof jacket marked “Press” was laid like a wreath, AFPTV footage showed.
Contacted by AFP, the Israeli army declined to comment on this specific case without receiving the geographic coordinates for the location of Muharab’s death and his identification card.
“The (Israeli army) has never, and will never, deliberately target journalists,” a spokesperson for the army told AFP.
The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate condemned Muharab’s “assassination” and accused the Israeli army of leading an “organised campaign … to kill journalists” in Gaza.
Gaza journalist Ibrahim Qanan, who was at the hospital, accused Israel of “killing the truth by trying to wipe out all traces of transmission towards the outside world of what is happening in the Gaza Strip”.
The Israeli army has killed several journalists in Gaza it accused of belonging to Hamas or Islamic Jihad’s armed branches.
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) reported on Monday that “at least 113 journalists and media workers” have been killed since the beginning of the war between Israel and Hamas that began on Oct 7.
This constitutes the “deadliest period for journalists since the CPJ began gathering data in 1992”.
Source: CNA
