Another journalist succumbs to wounds in Gaza

GAZA CITY, Palestine

Another Palestinian journalist succumbed to his wounds sustained in Israeli army fire in Gaza City, the Government Media Office in Gaza said on Friday.

The death of journalist Akram al-Shafe'i, who worked for the local Safa news agency, brings the number of journalists killed in Gaza since Oct. 7 to 107.

Akram al-Shafe'i was injured inside Al-Shifa Hospital when it was bombed and besieged by the Israeli army in November.

Israel has launched relentless air and ground attacks on the Gaza Strip since a cross-border attack by the Palestinian resistance group Hamas on Oct. 7.

At least 22,600 Palestinians have since been killed and 57,910 others injured, according to Gaza’s health authorities, while nearly 1,200 Israelis are believed to have been killed in the Hamas attack.

The onslaught has left Gaza in ruins, with 60% of the enclave's infrastructure damaged or destroyed and nearly 2 million residents displaced amid acute shortages of food, clean water, and medicine.

*Writing by Ahmed Asmar