Emotion after horror. Apart from the ads made by Benjamin Netanyahu with respect to his control plan of the city of Gaza by the Israeli army, six journalists died in a drone attack aimed at the store that housed them.
These disappearances are part of the heavy evaluation of human losses, where almost 200 reporters have been killed during the last 18 months, “of which at least 42 have probably been attacked due to their profession,” specifies reporters without borders (RSF). According to its accounts, the UN talks about “at least 242 journalists killed in Gaza since October 7, 2023”.
Among the victims are the two correspondents of Al Jazeera Anas Al-Sharif and Mohammed Qreiqeh, their three Ibrahim Zaher cameramen, Mohammed Noufal and Moamen Aliwa, as well as the independent journalist Mohammed al-Khaldi, who regularly collaborated with local media. The results also report three other injured journalists during the fatal strike for their colleagues.
Internationally, as in French political ranges, this attack is strongly criticized.
“A violation of international law”,
The Israeli army has tried to justify the murder of these journalists accusing Anas Al-Sharif, a figure of the media known in Gaza for its coverage of the conflict since October 2023, of being the “leader of a terrorist cell within the terrorist organization Hamas”, and added that the victim was “responsible for the preparation of rocket attacks against Israeli civilians and” Isrraeli Troops.
The United Nations have condemned “the murder by the Israeli army of six Palestinians attacking their store, in a serious violation of international humanitarian law”, summarizing Israel to “respect and protect all civilians, including journalists. […] We are asking for immediate, safe and without obstacles to Gaza for all journalists. “
Through a statement transmitted to the AFP, journalists without borders denounced on Monday, August 11, “with force and anger the murder claimed” by the Israeli army of journalists from Al Jazeera. “Anas Al-Sharif, one of the most famous journalists in the Gaza Strip, was the voice of the suffering imposed by Israel in the Palestinians of Gaza,” added the NGO.
For the Journalist Protection Committee (CPJ), journalists “should never be attacked in times of war.” Jodie Ginsberg, the director of this NGO, recalls that “journalists are civilians” and attack them in times of war “is a war crime.”
And to add that an interview request was sent to the Israeli Army Media Office for North America to request comments on murders and additional details about terrorism accusations, without having obtained an immediate response.
“Netanyahu’s army kills journalists”
All journalists killed this Sunday worked or worked for the Al Jazeera channel, whose headquarters are in Qatar. In a press release published on Monday, the English written channel “Anas and his colleagues were among the last remaining votes since Gaza informed the world without filter, since the time, of the reality suffered by the Gazaouis.”
Qatar’s prime minister, Cheikh Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman Bin Jassim al-Thani, also condemned this attack, calling it “deliberate guidance” and “shocking rape of press freedom.”
In France, some political figures on the left have also reacted. MP LFI of Val-de-Marne Mathilde Panot evokes journalists on Monday “hundreds killed by the Netanyahu criminal army [qui] Bat all daily records in the indescribable. “A complaint occupied the concert of the MEP LFI Manon Aubry that evokes” Netanyahu’s goal: to commit a genocide without testimony. “
This nth attack relaces to the theme of the place of journalists in the heart of this conflict released for almost two years. The international media authorized to enter the Israeli territory are rare, each report is subject to military censorship, as RSF denounces for several months.
Early on Sunday, August 10, Benjamin Netanyahu said to the international press that he had given the Army to authorize a greater number of international press journalists to work, under his control, in the Gaza Strip.
Source: BFM TV
