UPDATES DEATH TOLL, ADDS DETAILS, CHANGES HEADLINE, DECK; EDITS THROUGHOUT
By Mustafa Haboush
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Two more Palestinian journalists were killed on Monday in Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, pushing the death toll of press members targeted by Israel since Oct. 7 to 122, officials and state media said.
Israeli warplanes targeted the home of journalist Isam Al-Lulu in the town of Al-Zawayda in central Gaza Strip, Wafa agency said, adding that the attack also killed Al-Lulu's wife and his two children.
Journalist Mohammed Abdul-Fattah Atallah was also killed in an airstrike on his home in the enclave, according to Gaza media office. Further details were not immediately available.
Israel has launched relentless air and ground attacks on the Gaza Strip since a cross-border attack by Hamas last October.
The onslaught has killed more than 26,000 people, mostly women and children, displaced 85% of the blockaded enclave's population and created conditions for a famine. Israel says 1,200 people were killed in the initial Hamas attack.
The International Court of Justice, in its interim ruling in the genocide case filed by South Africa, ordered Israel to prevent acts of genocide in Gaza, and enable the provision of urgently needed basic services and humanitarian assistance to address the adverse conditions of life faced by Palestinians.
Tel Aviv also has to submit a report to the ICJ on all measures taken to give effect to this order within one month.
* Writing by Mohammad Sio in Ankara