The television network Al Jazeera yesterday Wednesday condemned the death of two of its journalists in an Israeli bombardment in Gaza Stripdenouncing their “cold-blooded”, “targeted murder”.

Qatar Network reported earlier yesterday that Ismail al-Woul’s Arabic-language service correspondent and cameraman Rami al-Refi were “targeted by Israeli occupation forces” while reporting in al-Sati refugee camp in Gaza City (north).

“The new attack against Al Jazeera journalists is part of the systematic targeting of the network’s journalists and their families since October 2023,” he underlined.

Since the outbreak of war between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas in the Gaza Strip on October 7, Al Jazeera has been reporting non-stop reports from the ground about the consequences of Israeli military operations in the small enclave.

His office in Gaza has been bombed and two other correspondents have been killed.

The deaths of al-Woul and ar-Refi highlight the “urgent need for immediate justice against the occupation forces,” the television network said.

Al Jazeera added that it would take all “possible actions in justice to punish the perpetrators of these crimes”, while expressing its “solidarity” with “all journalists in Gaza”.

Hamas also denounced the “heinous crime”, saying in a statement that yesterday’s bombing was intended to “terrorize and silence” Palestinian journalists who have been reporting on the “genocide going on against our people in the Gaza Strip for almost ten years.” months”.

For years, Israeli authorities have publicly railed against the Qatari network’s coverage of current affairs in Israel and the Palestinian territories, which heavily emphasizes the war in the Gaza Strip.

An Israeli court confirmed in June that it had extended the validity of the decision to ban the transmission of the network’s signal on the country’s territory, which had been imposed on Al Jazeera initially in May. The network has Arabic and English service.

The spokesman for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres yesterday condemned the deadly bombing. Stéphane Dujarric called for a “transparent and in-depth investigation” into this and similar attacks and “accountability”.

In January, when two journalists, one from Al Jazeera and another working with various international media outlets, including AFP, were killed in a shelling in the southern part of the enclave, the Israeli army labeled them “terrorists”.

In February, Israel accused another of the channel’s journalists, who was injured in a shelling, of being a “deputy unit commander” of Hamas’s military arm.

Al Jazeera angrily denied the allegations.

The network’s enclave bureau chief, Wael Dakhtouh, a well-known figure in the Gaza Strip, was injured in an Israeli shelling that killed one of his cameramen in December.

His wife Umm, their two children and their grandson were killed in an Israeli shelling in October in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central part of the enclave.

His eldest son, Hamza, was the one killed in January in Rafah.

According to Hamas, the number of Palestinian journalists killed in the war has now reached 165.

According to figures from the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), at least 125 journalists — 120 Palestinians, 2 Israelis, and 3 Lebanese nationals — had been killed by July 31.