TRT correspondent in Gaza Strip, Sami Barhoum, was injured while covering events in northwest Khan Yunis today.
TRT channel quoted its correspondent Barhoum as saying that the Israeli forces targeted the channel’s staff while they were moving in the car known as the press and channel directly, which led to him being shot, even though the area they were in was not military and the occupation army did not include it in evacuation orders, in addition to being crowded with hundreds of thousands of displaced people, indicating that the targeting operation was deliberate because Israel wants to silence the voices of journalists.
The Turkish channel correspondent added: “We were shot in the face and chest by Israeli snipers,” stressing that this is evidence of the direct targeting of journalists deliberately, and that this is not the first attack in the Gaza Strip.
He pointed out that on April 12, the Israeli occupation army targeted the TRT team while they were working as journalists in the Nuseirat camp in the
central Gaza Strip, which resulted in the injury of the channel’s photographer Sami Shehadeh with injuries described as moderate to serious, and the amputation of his foot, in addition to the injury of the channel’s correspondent Sami Barhoum with minor injuries.
Turkish officials, headed by Parliament Speaker Numan Kurtulmus and Turkish Vice President Cevdet Yilmaz, condemned the Israeli forces’ targeting of TRT’s correspondent in the Gaza Strip, Sami Barhoum.
In a post on social media, Kurtulmus described the Israeli forces’ attack on the TRT team as “despicable.” He said: “No matter what (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu and his gang do, who are trying to cover up their crimes and escape the punishment imposed by international law, they will be held accountable for their actions sooner or later.”
For his part, Yilmaz said via his account on the X platform: “These attacks will not be able to cover up the war crimes and crimes against humanity committed against the oppressed Palestinian people,
which are engraved in the collective memory of humanity.”
Meanwhile, the spokesman for the Turkish Justice and Development Party, Omer Celik, condemned in the strongest terms Israel’s targeting of the TRT correspondent in the Gaza Strip, and said via his account on the X platform: “(Benjamin) Netanyahu’s network is the enemy of all human values.”
For his part, Muhammad Zahid Sobaci, Director General of the Turkish TRT network, said: “We will never give up being the voice of Gaza, despite all the obstacles imposed by terrorist Israel, which knows no moral or human boundaries.”
Source: National Iraqi News Agency