A Palestinian author, poet and journalist has been killed in an Israeli air strike in northern Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp, in line with his household, taking the whole variety of journalists killed within the Israel-Palestine battle since October 7, 2023 to 220.
Mohammad Hijazi was amongst almost 90 Palestinians killed in Israeli assaults throughout the besieged territory within the final 24 hours, in line with a Gaza Well being Ministry assertion on Sunday.
Tons of of individuals have been killed within the Jabalia camp since Israel imposed a army siege of northern Gaza on October 5 and intensified bombardment, forcing 1000’s to flee. Israel has prevented even help teams from supplying primary meals gadgets to the world.
“I don’t know if I’ll write to you once more. I preserve what I’ve written and am writing. Perhaps it should come to mild in the future. I refuse an affordable demise. I curse the assassin,” Hijazi wrote on Fb in August of final yr.
“Allow us to on this backside that now we have lastly reached, arm ourselves with persistence and prayer, and depend the times now we have lived as a historic achievement, whereas awaiting what’s coming with a damaged coronary heart, an extinguished eye, a head held excessive, and a spirit that fights till the top of the highway.”
It was not instantly clear whether or not Hijazi was working for a particular media organisation when he died.
Because the starting of its battle on Gaza on October 7, 2023, Israel has killed a minimum of 220 journalists and media employees, together with Hijazi.
Gaza’s Well being Ministry reported on Sunday that a minimum of 88 Palestinians had been killed and 208 others injured prior to now 24 hours.
In the meantime, one other child has died from the chilly in Gaza, as displaced Palestinians lack heat garments and are pressured to stay in tents that present little safety from the climate.
His mom instructed Al Jazeera that her child, Yousef, was born wholesome, however he grew to become the eighth child to die in Gaza in current days because of the chilly.
“They didn’t give a single second to really feel pleased with my child,” she stated. “He slept subsequent to me and within the morning I discovered him frozen and lifeless. I don’t know what to say. Nobody can really feel my distress. Nobody on this planet can perceive our catastrophic state of affairs.”
The newest fatalities carry the demise toll of Palestinians killed by Israeli assaults in Gaza to a minimum of 45,805 since October 2023, whereas an estimated 109,064 have been injured.
Amongst these killed in Israeli strikes throughout Gaza on Sunday had been three Palestinians who had been dwelling in a tent in Deir el-Balah, in line with Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud, reporting from central Gaza.
A household of 15 individuals had been additionally buried underneath the rubble within the northwest of Gaza Metropolis, following a separate strike, Mahmoud reported.
“The Palestinian Civil Defence is doing its finest to take away our bodies from underneath the rubble, however has solely eliminated 4 of the relations,” he stated.
“It’s estimated there are a minimum of 15 relations underneath the three-storey constructing that was flattened to the bottom.
“These repeated assaults – deliberate towards households – proceed to unfold, inflicting extra tragedies amongst Palestinians.”
“I refuse to die cheaply… I curse the killer.”
This morning, author and journalist Mohamed Hijazi, the creator of those phrases, was killed by the Israeli military in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza. #GazaGenocide pic.twitter.com/LWsCak8IPr
— Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده (@RamAbdu) January 5, 2025
Within the final three days, Israeli forces have killed greater than 200 individuals in Gaza, Mahmoud famous.
The previous couple of remaining hospitals throughout Gaza are actually overwhelmed, he added.
On the emergency division at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah, many individuals had been left on the ground and others had been ready to be admitted into the working theatre, Mahmoud stated.
“By the point it’s their flip, it’s too late – they’ve already bled to demise. [Many] burns are fairly extreme, and no ache treatment is obtainable on the hospital,” he stated.
“There’s a silent demise occurring. Up to now weeks, because of the ongoing assaults, individuals are dying quietly due to the shortage of medical provides.”
On Sunday, the Israeli army claimed that it had struck greater than 100 “terror targets” within the Gaza Strip over the previous two days. A number of of the strikes focused websites from which Palestinian fighters had been firing projectiles into Israel in current days, the army stated.
The newest violence in Gaza comes as oblique negotiations for a captive launch deal resumed in Qatar.
Mediators Qatar, Egypt and america have been engaged for months in efforts to strike a deal to finish the battle and safe the discharge of dozens of captives nonetheless held in Gaza.
Israel has detained greater than 10,000 Palestinians since launching its devastating battle, which has introduced it world condemnation. Rights teams have termed Israel’s army offensive as a genocide, whereas the Worldwide Court docket of Justice (ICJ), the highest United Nations court docket, stated in March 2024 that the Israeli operation “plausibly” amounted to genocide.
Seperately, the Worldwide Felony Court docket (ICC) has issued arrest warrants towards Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant.
