On Wednesday, day 299 of Israel’s assault on Gaza, two renowned journalists: Al Jazeera correspondent Ismail al-Ghoul and photographer Rami al-Rifi in a direct missile strike on their press vehicle by the Israeli occupation forces in Gaza City.
Video clips showed the car the two colleagues were in severely damaged, with smoke rising from it and blood splattered on its remains, after it was targeted by the Israeli occupation in the Al-Shati refugee camp in the center of Gaza City.
The Israeli air strike decapitated AlJazeera journalist Ismail Al ghoul and killed the journalist Rami Alrifi as well . The total number of journalists killed in Gaza since October 7th is 165. Atrache md is the video of their bombarded vehicle. pic.twitter.com/0pIhegrrfq
— Mustafa Barghouti @Mustafa_Barghouti (@MustafaBarghou1) July 31, 2024
Ismail Al-Ghoul’s colleagues have a message to the world:
“The coverage will continue”. pic.twitter.com/W1LMkO2lvd
— TIMES OF GAZA (@Timesofgaza) July 31, 2024
Ismail al Ghoul has several times expressed missing 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗹𝗲 𝗱𝗮𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗭𝗶𝗻𝗮, who was forcefully displaced from the #Gaza_City to the south of the #Gaza_Strip! pic.twitter.com/LtAby67fWm
— Motasem A Dalloul (@AbujomaaGaza) July 31, 2024
Since the outbreak of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip on October 7, more than 155 journalists have been killed, 100 headquarters of journalistic institutions have been destroyed, and more than 100 journalists have been abducted, most of whom are still being held in the Israeli occupation’s prisons. Four of al-Ghoul’s fellow journalists have been forcibly disappeared, and their fate is unknown to this day, according to human rights reports issued by the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate.
