The four injured individuals were evacuated from Gaza to Jordan, accompanied by seven companions. They were flown on a Turkish Airlines flight from Queen Alia International Airport in Amman to Istanbul Airport, and then to Esenboğa Airport in Ankara.
Upon their arrival in Ankara, the injured and their companions were transported in waiting ambulances to Ankara's Etlik City Medical Hospital for treatment.
TRT Arabic team under fire from the occupation
Photographer Sami Shehadeh was injured by Israeli artillery fire, resulting in the amputation of his right leg, while reporter Sami Barhoum was injured in an Israeli drone attack targeting a TRT journalist vehicle.
TRT Arabic cameraman Sami Shehadeh after arriving in Türkiye from the Gaza Strip for treatment.
The vehicle the channel's crew was traveling in was hit by five bullets during the attack in which Barhoum was injured.
The four wounded had previously been evacuated, along with their seven companions, to Jordan before being transferred to Türkiye.
The Government Media Office in the Gaza Strip announced on Monday that the number of journalist martyrs has risen to 288, since the beginning of the genocide perpetrated by Israel in the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023.
In a statement, the Government Media Office condemned "in the strongest terms the systematic targeting, killing, and assassination of Palestinian journalists by the Israeli occupation," calling on the International Federation of Journalists, the Federation of Arab Journalists, and all press organizations worldwide to condemn these systematic crimes against Palestinian journalists and media professionals in the Gaza Strip.
The office held "the Israeli occupation, the US administration, and countries complicit in the crime of genocide, such as the United Kingdom, Germany, and France, fully responsible for committing these heinous, brutal crimes."
Since October 7, 2023, Israel has been committing genocide in Gaza, including killing, starvation, destruction, and forced displacement, ignoring all international calls and orders from the International Court of Justice to halt it.
The genocide, backed by the United States, left more than 191,000 Palestinians dead and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 11,000 missing, in addition to hundreds of thousands of displaced persons, and a famine that claimed the lives of many, including dozens of children.
