AA/ Ankara/ Ahmed Asmar
The Israeli army released Al Jazeera correspondent Ismail al-Ghul and other journalists on Monday evening after they were detained at a hospital in the western Gaza city of al-Shifa.
Al-Ghul and other journalists were arrested early Monday by Israeli forces, who raided the hospital, arresting dozens of people and expelling thousands of Palestinians sheltering there.
The Doha-based TV station said in a statement that a broadcast vehicle equipped with cameras and other equipment was destroyed by Israeli forces after the journalists were detained at the hospital.
The US State Department has expressed concern about the fate of the detained journalists.
The Gaza media office said last month that at least 126 Palestinian media workers had been killed since Israel launched an offensive on Gaza on October 7 following a surprise attack by the Palestinian resistance movement, Hamas.
Since October 7, 2023, Israel has been waging a devastating war in the Gaza Strip, which has resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands of civilians, mostly children and women, in addition to unprecedented humanitarian disaster and destruction. The massive infrastructure that led to Tel Aviv. They were brought before the International Court on charges of “genocide”.
Palestinian groups estimate that thousands of Palestinians have been detained by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip since October. 7.
Israel has also imposed a crippling blockade on the Gaza Strip, leaving its population, especially those in northern Gaza, on the brink of starvation.
Israel’s war has led to the internal displacement of 85% of Gaza’s population due to acute shortages of food, drinking water and medicine, and 60% of the enclave’s infrastructure has been damaged or destroyed, according to the United Nations.
Israel is accused of genocide before the International Court of Justice. An interim ruling issued in January ordered Tel Aviv to end acts of genocide and take steps to provide humanitarian aid to civilians in Gaza.
* Translated from English by Malek Jomni
Source: AA
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