Columbian president tackles Israel for killing of Palestinian journalists in Gaza

Colombian President Gustavo Petro has condemned the killing of journalists by Israeli bombings in the Gaza Strip.

“108 journalists have been murdered in the Gaza Strip by bombing in their homes,” Petro wrote on X, following the killing of two more journalists, Hamza Wael Al-Dahdouh and Mustafa Thuraya, in Israeli attacks.

Recall that the two journalists were killed on Sunday after an Israeli aircraft hit a vehicle carrying the pun pushers in Khan Younis.

The press office of the government in Gaza said that the number of journalists killed in Gaza since the beginning of the Israeli attacks reached 109.

In a statement condemning the Israeli army’s attacks on journalists, media units and human rights organizations were called on to condemn the attack and to put pressure on Israel to stop its attacks on the Palestinian people.

Gaza has been left in ashes by the Israeli attacks, with 60% of the enclave’s infrastructure destroyed or severely damaged and almost 2 million Palestinians forced to flee due to severe shortages of clean water, food, and medicines.

Numerous legal experts worldwide have said that Israel’s actions in Gaza amount to war crimes or genocide, and nations like South Africa and Turkey are attempting to file lawsuits in international tribunals to support this claim.

Israel has launched air and ground attacks on Gaza following a cross-border incursion by the Palestinian resistance group Hamas on Oct. 7 last year, killing at least 22,835 Palestinians and injuring more than 58,400 others.

Nearly 1,200 Israelis are believed to have been killed in the Hamas attack.