A Number Of Journalists Injured As A Result Of Israeli Attacks On The Gaza Strip

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JAKARTA - A number of journalists were injured as a result of an Israeli attack on the Nuseirat refugee camp, the central Gaza Strip.

Medical sources told Anadolu among the injured was photojournalist Sami Shehadeh, whose right leg was amputated and he was injured all over his body.

Meanwhile, a correspondent for the public broadcast agency T\"urkiye TRT Arab was lightly injured in an Israeli attack, according to a source at the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital reported by ANTARA, Friday, April 12.

The hospital also said journalist Muhammad Al-Sawalihi was injured after shrapnel hit his right hand in another Israeli artillery shooting in the same area.

This is not the first time the Israeli army has targeted journalists in Gaza during a war that has lasted for more than half a year.

140 journalists have died as a result of an Israeli attack, according to data from the Gaza government's media office.

Since Thursday (11/4) morning, the Nuseirat camp has been bombarded with intense Israeli artillery and airstrikes, coinciding with the announcement of the Israeli army's military operations in the northern region of the camp in the central Gaza Strip.

More than 33,600 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the war began.

The Israeli army also imposed a blockade that paralyzed the coastal enclave, causing its residents, especially residents of northern Gaza, to be on the verge of starvation.

Israeli attacks forced 85 percent of Gaza's population to flee amid shortages of food, clean water and medicine, while most of the infrastructure in the enclave has been damaged or destroyed.

Israel is being prosecuted for committing genocide in the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which urges Israel to do more to prevent hunger in Gaza.