News - Middle East: Khalid Al-Saadi, head of the Palestinian Diaspora Association, confirmed that the number of journalists martyred in Zionist attacks has risen to 237 after the targeting of a journalists' tent housing an Al Jazeera crew.

In an interview with Almasirah channel, he emphasized that this systematic targeting is an attempt by the "Zionist enemy" to silence the truth and prevent the world from witnessing reality on the ground. He praised the martyred journalists, describing them as figures who "threatened the occupation with their cameras and microphones."

Al-Saadi strongly condemned the international community, including the UN and European nations like Germany, Italy, and France, accusing them of passivity and empty condemnations that serve no purpose. He also criticized Arab "normalizing" states for failing to take real action to stop the "genocide," asserting that these countries could have ended the war from the start if they had willed it.

He hailed the "legendary" resilience of Gaza’s people, who he said are "fighting the entire world, not just the Zionist entity," and have "humiliated" an occupation army "weaker than a spider’s web."

Al-Saadi drew sharp contrasts: he applauded Yemen for supporting Palestine "with its people and weapons" despite its own poverty, while lambasting Jordanians for celebrating graduation results with gunfire as "a Muslim people is being slaughtered."

He also warned that Turkish support and a recent Israeli Knesset decision to reoccupy Gaza—starting with Gaza City—pose new existential threats to the Strip.

Israeli forces killed five Al Jazeera staff, including Al-Jazeera correspondents Anas Al-Sharif and Mohammed Qareqa, as well as photographers Ibrahim Zaher and Mohammed Nofal, in a targeted strike on their media tent outside Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on Sunday evening. Two other people were also killed. 

Shortly before being killed, al-Sharif, a well-known 28-year-old Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent who had reportedly extensively covered from northern Gaza, wrote on X that Israel had launched intense, concentrated bombardment – also known as “fire belts” – on the eastern and southern parts of Gaza City.

In his last video, the loud booms of Israel’s intensive missile bombing can be heard in the background as the dark sky is lit in a flash of orange light.

In a final message, written on April 6, to be published in the event of his martyrdom, al-Sharif said he “lived the pain in all its details” and “tasted grief and loss repeatedly”.

“Despite that, I never hesitated to convey the truth as it is, without distortion or misrepresentation, hoping that God would witness those who remained silent, those who accepted our killing, and those who suffocated our very breaths,” he said.

“Not even the mangled bodies of our children and women moved their hearts or stopped the massacre that our people have been subjected to for over a year and a half.”

The number of journalists martyred in Zionist attacks has risen to 237 after the targeting of a journalists' tent housing an Al Jazeera news crew.

The death toll since the start of Israel’s genocidal war is nearing 61,000, with over 150,000 injured.