Request to suspend EU agreements with Tel Aviv
According to Webangah News quoted by Mehr News Agency quoted by Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, about 60 international organizations defending the rights of journalists requested the European Union to cancel the partnership agreement with the Zionist regime due to the violation of media freedom and the unprecedented killing of journalists since its inception. The war in the Gaza Strip was suspended.
These organizations, including the Committee to Protect Journalists, Reporters Without Borders, Human Rights Watch and the Union of European Journalists, said in a letter to the European Union that Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet The Prime Minister of the Zionist regime, since the beginning of the Gaza war on October 7, 2023, has taken a series of measures to limit the freedom of the media, which has practically led to the establishment of a censorship system.
In this letter, it is stated that more than 100 Palestinian journalists and three Lebanese journalists were killed in this war. While pointing out that some of these journalists have been the targets of targeted terror operations, international institutions have described this period as the “deadliest” period in history for journalists in recent decades.
These organizations pointed to the ban on foreign journalists entering the Gaza Strip and the arbitrary arrests of media activists, including the arrest of at least 49 of them, and stated that the cumulative effect These violations create conditions for creating a media vacuum and open the space for advertisements and false information.
International organizations defending the rights of journalists, especially as the European Union Foreign Ministers’ meeting approaches on August 29 in Brussels, call for the protection of media freedom and the protection of journalists’ lives. and ending the impunity of the Zionist regime.
