Hamas said that the Israeli assassination of journalist Hassan Eslieh while receiving treatment at Nasser Hospital is a “new war crime reflecting Zionist sadism.”
“In a new crime added to the Zionist occupation’s black record, the Zionist enemy forces committed a cowardly assassination against the heroic Palestinian journalist Hassan Eslieh by targeting him directly while he was receiving treatment at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis. He had sustained wounds in a previous Zionist bombing that targeted a journalists’ tent in Khan Yunis,” Hamas said in a statement on Tuesday.
Hamas said that the assassination reflected a systematic determination to eliminate free voices and silence the truth, without the slightest regard for any human or legal values.
The Movement added that “this compound crime, which is a flagrant violation of all international and humanitarian laws, reflects the moral and media bankruptcy of the occupation, exposes the falsity of its claims before the world, and confirms that it is an entity based on terrorism and physical liquidation of anyone who exposes its crimes, especially journalists.”
Hamas mourned the journalist martyr Eslieh and affirmed that “targeting journalists will not silence the voice of truth, nor will it intimidate the knights of the word and the image, who convey to the world the just narrative of our people and expose the atrocities and ongoing crimes of the occupation.”
With the martyrdom of journalist Eslieh, the number of martyrs from the Palestinian press has risen to 215 since the start of the criminal aggression against the Gaza Strip.
Hamas called on the international community, with all its international bodies as well as press and human rights institutions, to “shoulder, its legal and moral responsibilities, take urgent action to stop the occupation’s crimes against Palestinian journalists, impose deterrent sanctions on this criminal entity and its murderous leaders, and sever all political and media ties with it, as it poses a threat to press freedom and humanity as a whole.”
Journalist Hassan Eslieh was assassinated by Israeli occupation forces early Tuesday morning at the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis where he was recovering from injuries sustained 37 days ago.
