International press freedom groups have urged the Israeli military to put an end to targetting Palestinian media in the Gaza Strip and allow international journalists to enter the region to cover the conflict.
On Monday, the eighth day of its military campaign, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) fired two missiles into the offices of the Hamas-affiliated Al-Risala newsweekly, according to multiple regional news agencies, including Al-Quds Press and the Kuwaiti News Agency. The attack destroyed all of the paper's equipment and nearly all the furniture in the headquarters of the newspaper, which is located in a residential building in a densely populated area of Gaza City, Editor-in-Chief Wissam Afifa told the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).
No employees were killed or injured in the attack, which took place at night, although other residents of the building received superficial shrapnel wounds, said Afifa, adding that structural damage forced the residents of the building to abandon it.
Within minutes of that bombing, the IDF also bombed al-Rantisi printers, the commercial printing press that publishes Al-Risala, according to local news reports. There were no casualties in that attack either; the printing press was not in operation at the time. The newspaper has not appeared on newsstands since December 30 because the staff has been unable to get to work due to the fighting, according to Afifa.
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