Ola Atallah, the 83rd martyr of journalists as a result of the Israeli raids on Gaza

Palestinian journalist Ola Atallah was martyred in an Israeli raid that targeted the house of one of her relatives, to which she was displaced with her family, in the Al-Daraj neighborhood, east of Gaza City, bringing the number of martyred journalists since last October 7 to 82 journalists, according to the government media office in Gaza.

The government media office in the Gaza Strip announced, on Saturday, the martyrdom of Palestinian journalist Ola Atallah, in an Israeli raid that targeted the place to which she and her family were displaced in the Al-Daraj neighborhood, east of Gaza City.

The office’s general director, Ismail Al-Thawabta, said in a brief statement: “May God have mercy on our fellow martyr, journalist Ola Atallah. We ask God Almighty for mercy, acceptance, and paradise for her, and for her family and the journalist’s family patience and solace.”

Media sources and eyewitnesses said, "Journalist Atallah was martyred along with a number of her family members in a bombing of the house of one of their relatives, to which they were displaced in Gaza City."

A state of sadness prevailed among Palestinian media professionals on social media, who shared tweets published by Atallah, days before her martyrdom, on the “X” platform.

She wrote in her last tweet on Friday: “How many nights of terror and death must Gaza count? How many days of loss, absence, and pain must it count? How many hours of hunger, thirst, cold, illness, displacement, and estrangement must it count? How many departed, crying, and bereaved people must it count in order to The curse of arithmetic falls and the cruelty of numbers disappears.”

Journalist Atallah worked with a number of Arab and international media outlets, including Anadolu, which she left in 2017.

On Friday, the government media office in Gaza announced that the number of journalists martyred during the war had risen to 82.

With the martyrdom of Atallah, the number of Palestinian journalists martyred since the beginning of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip rises to 83 journalists.

Since last October 7, the Israeli army has been waging a devastating war on the Gaza Strip, which, as of Friday evening, has left 17,487 martyrs and 46,480 wounded, most of them children and women, massive destruction of infrastructure, and an “unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe.” According to official Palestinian and UN sources.