Hamas’s reaction to the occupation’s war against journalists and media

According to the international group Tasnim News Agency, the Palestinian Hamas movement issued a statement in response to the regime’s actions In closing the Al Jazeera network in the occupied territories, the Zionist announced that the decision of the criminal Netanyahu and his Nazi cabinet to close the Al Jazeera office and prevent the operation of this network is a clear violation of press freedom and a repressive action against the professional role of Al Jazeera in exposing the crimes of the occupying regime and the brutalities of the Nazi criminal army. and its terrorist settlers against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank. The action is the climax of the declared war against the journalists whom the Zionists expose to their systematic terrorist attacks with the aim of hiding the truth. The occupying regime has targeted the Al Jazeera network and harassed its employees and journalists to the point of murder.

In the continuation of this statement, it is stated that the occupiers deliberately killed all the journalists in the Gaza Strip. They are oppressing and targeting, and the testimony of 141 journalists in the Gaza Strip in seven months shows that all the claims of the occupying regime regarding freedom of the press and journalistic work are false. This brutal repression against journalists is considered a clear violation of freedoms and requires the occupation regime to be blacklisted. The Hamas movement condemns the decision of the occupation regime to close the office of Al Jazeera in the occupied territories from all international law institutions. Bushari and journalists called to condemn this action of the occupiers and take punitive measures against the Zionist regime, including canceling the regime’s membership in international institutions and press conferences. Hamas, in turn, announced that the action of the Zionist regime to close the office of Al Jazeera network in the occupied territories shows the hysterical and confused state of the Zionists and Netanyahu personally, and at the same time it shows the victory of the resistance.

He in a The press release announced that the occupying regime and its fascist cabinet do not tolerate the level of professional coverage of Al Jazeera media on the details of the aggressions and crimes of the Zionist regime against the Palestinian people. After Al Jazeera exposed terrorism and brutal crimes of the occupying army in the Gaza Strip, Zionists decided to close the office of this network and stop publishing Akhbar To prevent their crimes inside Palestine.

This Hamas official emphasized that this action of the occupiers is a crime against the freedom of the press and media, whose right to freedom is guaranteed by international laws, and is aimed at the series of crimes of the occupiers. Giving journalists in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and Jerusalem will be added.

The Zionist Radio and Television Organization reported yesterday, Sunday, quoting the prime minister’s office, that the cabinet of ministers of the Israeli regime closed the Al-Jazeera network in Palestine. The occupation regime has agreed.

The media of the occupying regime, after announcing the agreement of the cabinet of this regime with the closure of Al Jazeera network offices in the occupied territories, reported that the equipment of this network is going to be confiscated and the activity license of its journalists will be revoked.

After that, the Minister of Communications of the Zionist regime announced the raid by the Israeli police on Al Jazeera’s offices in Quds city and announced that Israeli forces are confiscating the equipment of Al Jazeera’s offices.

Al Jazeera network in Reacting to this action, the Zionist regime announced that Netanyahu’s cabinet decided to close Al Jazeera’s offices in the occupied territories with slander and defamation. The cabinet of the Israeli occupying regime closed the offices of Al Jazeera network at the same time as the World Press Freedom Day. But we emphasize our right to continue providing services to the public around the world, which is guaranteed by international conventions.

This is while in the Gaza war journalists play an important role in exposing the crimes of the Zionist regime. and have played genocide in Gaza. The deliberate killing of journalists by the Zionist army also aims to erase the Palestinian narrative of the war and destroy the truth and obstruct the delivery of news and correct information is given to the public opinion.

Intentional targeting of journalists is considered a war crime according to international and humanitarian laws, and journalists should be allowed to act freely and without interference and stoning of the conflicting parties. do their job and provide information, but in the first weeks of the war, the Israeli army announced in a statement addressed to international news agencies that it cannot guarantee the safety of journalists working in the Gaza Strip.

According to official statistics. Since the beginning of the Gaza war, at least 141 journalists have been deliberately targeted and martyred by the army of the occupying regime.

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