More than 250 media outlets from over 70 countries blacked out their front pages and main online pages and suspended their broadcasts on Monday to protest the killing of journalists in the Gaza Strip.

Reporters Without Borders, which organized the protest, said the Israeli army has killed 220 journalists in Gaza in less than two years.

Reporters Without Borders director Christophe Deloire stated, “At the current rate of journalists being killed in Gaza by the Israeli army, soon there will be no one left to report what is happening. This is not just a war against Gaza, it is a war against the press.”

The Israeli occupation army continuously claims its attacks target only the Palestinian Hamas movement and other organizations and that it tries to avoid harming civilians.

After the killing of five journalists in last week’s attack, Israeli Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir expressed regret over civilian casualties.

Deloire said journalists in Gaza are deliberately targeted, killed, and defamed. “Without them, who will warn us of famine? Who will expose war crimes? Who will show us genocide?”

He added that Palestinian journalists must be protected and that other countries should welcome them if they want to leave Gaza.