The office said in a statement that the martyred journalists were Abdul Raouf Samir Shaat, Muhammad Salah Qashta, and Anas Abdullah Ghneim, noting that they worked with a number of Palestinian media outlets.
The statement did not provide further details regarding the circumstances of their deaths, while the Director General of the Ministry of Health in Gaza, Munir al-Barsh, confirmed that the three journalists were killed as a result of an Israeli bombing that targeted them on Wednesday in the south of the city.
The Government Media Office condemned the systematic targeting of Palestinian journalists by the Israeli occupation, holding the occupation and the countries supporting it fully responsible for the crimes of killing journalists within the genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.
The office called on the international community and the relevant UN and human rights organizations concerned with press and media freedom to take serious action to prosecute the leaders of the Israeli occupation before international courts, to pressure for a halt to the war of extermination, to ensure the protection of journalists and media professionals working in the Gaza Strip, and to stop the policy of assassinating them.
For its part, Hamas considered the Israeli occupation army’s targeting of a car belonging to an Egyptian relief committee in the middle of the Gaza Strip, in which the three journalists were traveling, a “blatant war crime” and a dangerous escalation in violation of the ceasefire agreement.
The movement said the bombing is an extension of the systematic targeting of journalists and humanitarian relief operations, noting that the occupation continues to target civilians in homes, residential neighborhoods and displacement tents in various areas of the sector.
The movement added that the Israeli attacks have resulted in the martyrdom of hundreds of Palestinians since the ceasefire agreement came into effect, including 11 martyrs on Wednesday alone, calling on the mediators and guarantor countries, foremost among them the American administration, to take immediate action to compel the occupation to implement its obligations and stop its ongoing violations.
For their part, the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate and the Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) condemned Israel’s targeting of journalists in Gaza and the killing of three of them on Wednesday.
In a related development, the Egyptian Committee for Gaza Relief announced on Wednesday the martyrdom of three Palestinians working for them as a result of an Israeli airstrike that targeted the car they were traveling in in the central Gaza Strip.
The committee said in a statement on its official Facebook page: "With hearts believing in God's will and decree, we mourn our sons in the Egyptian Committee, a pure group who have ascended to their Lord. We ask God to accept them as martyrs, to place them in the highest Paradise, and to grant their families patience and solace." The committee published photos of the martyrs, Anas Ghoneim, Abd Shaat, and Muhammad Qashta.
Israeli Channel 12 reported that Cairo requested clarifications from Israel regarding the bombing of Palestinians working with the Egyptian Committee for Relief and Reconstruction of the Gaza Strip, while the occupation army claimed that it targeted people operating a drone, claiming that it posed a "threat to its forces."
The “Egyptian Committee for the Relief of the People of the Gaza Strip” is an Egyptian non-governmental relief committee that was active during the war of extermination. It oversees the implementation of relief projects for residents and displaced persons, and the restoration of infrastructure in the Strip, in cooperation with governmental bodies and local institutions, according to Palestinian media and local sources in the Strip.
The two-year Israeli war of extermination on the Gaza Strip resulted in the martyrdom of more than 71,000 Palestinians and the injury of more than 171,000, most of them children and women, in addition to widespread destruction affecting about 90% of the civilian infrastructure.
Since the ceasefire came into effect on October 10, 2025, the Israeli army has killed 483 Palestinians and injured 1,287 others, while the tight siege and strict restrictions on the entry of food, medicine and shelter materials into the Gaza Strip continue.
