ALBAWABA - Two Palestinian journalists were killed during Israeli overnight bombardment on Gaza in the third night of brutal aggression against the strip.
Israeli warplanes have targetted and completely destroyed the Hajji Tower, which housed a number of local media offices on Institutions Street in the Gaza Governorate.
Journalist Saeed Radwan al-Taweel, a resident of the Rafah Governorate in the south, who works as editor-in-chief of Al-Khamsa News website, and journalist Mohammad Rizq Sobh, a resident of Gaza and a photographer for Khabar Agency, were killed in the attack, WAFA reported.
Videos were posted on social media platforms of al-Taweel and Sobh's colleagues mourning and bidding their final goodbyes to the killed journalists, some screaming in disbelief at the brutality of the Israeli army in their aggression against Palestinians.
Israeli airplanes unleashed brutal and unprecedented raids on Al-Rimal neighborhood west of Gaza City in recent hours, killing many Palestinians and injuring others while demolishing a significant number of houses, residential towers, and institutions.
The Ministry of Health has called for a "safe corridor to ensure the entry of urgent medical aid" into Gaza’s hospitals, as a number of hospitals were directly affected by the ongoing airstrikes, causing Beit Hanoun Hospital to go completely out of service, while parts of Shifa Hospital were severely damaged.
Speaking to AlJazeera, Shadi al-Hassi, a local resident, says there is no place safe from Israeli attacks in the besieged Strip. "I live in a house away from my family. I ran away from home at one o’clock in the morning, along with my child and my wife," al-Hassi said.
"We escaped from being targeted and came to another targeted place. We were surprised by everything, as fire and flames were thrown at us. There is no safe place in the Gaza Strip," he added.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said Monday that more than 137,000 people in Gaza have taken refuge in 83 of its schools. The agency added in a statement that the numbers are increasing due to continued Israeli airstrikes.
