Hundreds of media workers have been killed by Israel during its all out muti-front aggression across West Asia during the past two and a half years.

Israel’s genocidal war machine seems to have applied the same genocidal tactics it has used in the Gaza strip against the people of Lebanon.

Risking murder, rape, and torture, journalists continue working in the besieged city, walled off without food supply, surviving on animal fodder that has poisoned many.

Israel has been targeting journalists across the West Asia region during the last couple of years to silence the voices that expose its crimes.

The ultra-right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) governments in various provinces in India have used sedition charges against journalists for their critical reporting on policies and actions.

The massacre raised the death toll of Palestinian journalists killed by Israel since October 7, 2023 to 238.

The incident is reminiscent of the Israeli assault on Mavi Marmara, in which 10 passengers were killed while carrying aid from Türkiye to Gaza in 2010.

The incident raises the death toll of Palestinian journalists killed by Israel during the last year and a half to 234.

Israel’s genocide in Gaza is in full swing as the Trump administration unleashes its ally and provides it with all the weapons it needs.

Despite international pressure to free Hiba, Jordanian authorities held her for her full sentence in a “huge setback for press freedoms.”

Officials and human rights organizations accused Israel of deliberately targeting journalists in Lebanon and Gaza to cover up its crimes and impose a media blackout.

The ban comes at a time when Israel prepares to invade Rafah despite serious concerns of the disastrous humanitarian crisis such an invasion would create for the over a million Palestinians trapped there