More than 250 media from over 70 countries around the world supported the campaign of the journalist organization reporters without borders on Monday (RSF) to draw attention to The difficult situation of Palestinian journalists in the Gaza Strip and to threaten the Freedom of Press.
Some diaries that have joined the RSF campaign, They were released on Monday with a blackened front party or had a quotation from the RSF statement in the Black Field on their home website. RSF states that from the beginning of Israeli military operations in the Gaza Strip, which are retaliation for the attack of the Islamist Hamas movement of October 7, 2023, More than 220 journalists have been killed.
“At a pace like the Israeli army kills journalists in the Gaza Strip, no one will soon inform you“RSF warns.” This is not just a war against Gaza, it is a war against journalism, “the statement says. RSF in it calls for the protection of journalists in the Palestinian enclave and their urgent evacuationif they wish and requires an independent approach of journalists from abroad to the Palestinian enclave.
The aim of the RSF campaign is also To put an end to the “defamatory campaign led by the Israeli armed forces against Palestinian journalists, blamed for terrorism with unververable evidence, ”added the executive director of RSF Thibaut Bruttin, who pointed out that this tactic is not working, Because journalists are solidarity with Palestinian colleagues.
The RSF organization has stated that Over the past 22 months has filed four complaints to the International Criminal Court (ICC) for suspicion that The Israeli army in the Gaza Strip committed war crimes against journalists. RSF added that, on the basis of a resolution of 2222 on the protection of journalists in the armed conflict adopted in 2015, it is turning to the UN Security Council.
Bruttin warned in this context that According to RSF, the safety of journalists in combat zones can be guaranteed. He argued that “a conflict in Ukraine clearly shows that we may have a high intensity conflict and at the same time armed forces that act reasonably,” They not only allow journalists to work freely, but also protect them.
Monday’s RSF campaign is coming week After the Israeli attacks from 25 Augustin which in the hospital in the town of Khan JUNUS Five journalists died in the south of the Gaza Strip. According to Brutin, all journalists in the area knew this hospital, because “its third floor was a space with a good internet connection where journalists liked to work.” Bruttin is convinced that Israeli troops could not notice that there were journalists in the building.
This attack on the night of August 11 preceded an Israeli air attack in which six journalists died. The awarded target of the attack was a television rapporteur Al-Jazeera Anas Ash-Sharif.
