United Nations: Israel deliberately kills journalists in Gaza

According to the report of the international group Tasnim news agency, following the continuation of the Zionist regime’s crimes against journalists and members of the media In the Gaza Strip, UN experts expressed concern about the constant increase in the number of journalists killed by the occupiers in Gaza, and condemned the deliberate and criminal policy of the Zionists to silence the press.

5 independent UN experts who They were appointed by the Human Rights Council and announced in a joint statement that, throughout history, it has rarely happened that journalists have paid such a high price just to fulfill their duty in covering war events. What we are witnessing today in Gaza.

Israel’s war crime against the media in Gaza

These experts emphasized, we are extremely worried about a large number of We are journalists and media activists who have been injured and arrested or lost their lives in recent months in the Palestinian territories, especially in Gaza, during the attacks. We have received alarming reports that these journalists were deliberately attacked while they were wearing special clothes for members of the media and it was clear that they were journalists.

This statement continues. Killing, injuring and detaining journalists is a deliberate strategy by the Israeli forces to obstruct the work of the media and silence the press with the aim of preventing the publication of critical anti-Israel content. These deliberate attacks and the killing of journalists are considered war crimes.

Continuous internet disconnection and severe restrictions against journalists in Gaza

UN experts, including the special rapporteur for freedom Bayan, the special rapporteur for human rights in the Palestinian territories and the special rapporteur for extrajudicial executions, expressed their deep concern about Israel’s action in preventing the media from entering Gaza.

They added, only journalists who are accompanied by the Israeli army can enter Gaza. The attack on the media in Gaza and the severe restrictions against journalists in this area and preventing foreign journalists from entering Gaza, in addition to the nationwide blackout of the Internet, is a big obstacle in the way of disseminating information and The news is related to the events of the war and the situation of the people of Gaza.

These UN experts asked the international courts to pay special attention to this dangerous way of attacking journalists and Take the necessary punishments for those who commit such crimes against journalists and members of the media.

UN reports show that at least 122 journalists have been killed since the beginning of the occupation regime’s aggression against the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023. During the Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip, a number of them were martyred and a large number of them were also injured.

While the intentional targeting of journalists is considered a war crime according to international and humanitarian laws, and journalists should be allowed to leave freely. act and without interference and stoning of the involved parties to do their work 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.

Deliberate assassination of journalists by the Zionist army is not limited to the time of war, and the soldiers of this regime have deliberately targeted journalists many times in the history of their occupation. From the year 2000 until the start of the “Al-Aqsa Storm” operation, the Zionists killed nearly 60 Palestinian journalists by shooting or as a result of bombings.

In the current war in Gaza, journalists play an important role in exposing the crimes of the Zionist regime. and have played genocide in Gaza. The intentional killing of journalists by the Zionist army is also aimed at erasing the Palestinian narrative of the war and destroying the truth and obstructing the way of delivering news. And the right information is done to public opinion.

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