In a statement, the institution denounced the systematic killings and arbitrary detention of Palestinian journalists.

Such violations are a reflection of the country’s practices of racial discrimination, which “fears both the words and images that expose its brutality and terrorism,” it emphasized.

For its part, the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate denounced yesterday’s murder of Ahmed Abu Aisha, a correspondent for Palestine Today TV.

His death constitutes a new crime in the Israeli occupation’s dark history against the truth, and is part of a long series of systematic violations against the sector, it stated.

The union said Abu Aisha was killed in a drone strike while standing in front of her home in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.

The union recently revealed that Gaza troops have killed more than 220 of its members and some 700 family members, including many children, in the coastal enclave over the past 21 months.

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