RAMALLAH, Monday, August 26, 2024 (WAFA) - The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate mourned journalist Ali Ta'ima, who was killed today evening in an Israeli occupation's bombing in the Mawasi area of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip.

The killing of Ta'ima brings the death toll of journalists and workers in the Palestinian media sector since the beginning of the Israeli war to 163, said the syndicate in a statement.

The syndicate said that Ta'ima, 39, was working as a cameraman for Awda TV in the Gaza Strip, adding the occupation directly targeted him while he was performing his journalistic work.

It added that this confirms the occupation's persistence in continuing its bloody record of killing Palestinian journalists and committing the largest massacre against journalism in the world throughout history.

The syndicate stressed that this ongoing massacre against Palestinian journalists in the Gaza Strip and all Palestinian territories requires decisive and firm intervention from the international community and the United Nations to take immediate and decisive measures to stop these unprecedented crimes committed by the occupation forces and to ensure the protection guaranteed to journalists under international humanitarian law and relevant international conventions.

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