RAMALLAH, Palestine

Two more journalists were killed by Israel in the southern Gaza Strip, a media group said Friday.

The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate mourned Tamim Muammar and Abdullah al-Susi and said they were killed in separate raids in Khan Younis.

It said Muammar worked for Palestine Voice Radio while al-Susi was employed with the Hamas-run Al-Aqsa Channel.

The Syndicate said the killings are "systematic crimes" by the Israeli army, and it urged the International Criminal Court's prosecutor to open an investigation into Israeli crimes against Palestinian journalists.

Muammar was killed, along with 13 of his family members, in an Israeli airstrike on his family’s home. Al-Susi was killed with several family members, according to the Palestinian news agency, Wafa.

The killings bring the death toll for journalists killed by Israel in Gaza since Oct. 7 to 168, according to Palestinian figures.

Israel, flouting a UN Security Council resolution demanding an immediate cease-fire, has faced international condemnation amid its continued brutal offensive on Gaza since an attack in October by the Palestinian resistance group, Hamas.

Nearly 39,700 Palestinians have since been killed, mostly women and children, and over 91,700 injured, according to local health authorities.

More than 10 months into the Israeli war, vast tracts of Gaza lie in ruins amid a crippling blockade of food, clean water and medicine.

Israel stands accused of genocide at the International Court of Justice, which ordered it to immediately halt its military operation in the southern city of Rafah, where more than 1 million Palestinians had sought refuge from the war before it was invaded on May 6.

*Writing by Ahmed Asmar