The UN Human Rights Office sentenced the Last -hour murder of Sunday “six Palestinian journalists at the hands of Israeli army“a fact that elevates to 242 the casualties among the professionals of the Palestinian press since the beginning of the war in Looptwenty -two months ago.
The media professionals, Among them Anas Al Sharif, one of Gaza’s best known informantsHe was in his tent when he was bombarded by the forces of Israel.
The human rights agency said that with this action Israel has once again violated international humanitarian law, underlines a report of EFE.
In this line, he demanded that journalists be respected and protect, as well as all civilians who do not participate in hostilities.
“We ask immediate, safe and obstacle access to Gaza for all journalists,” added the Human Rights Office in the context of the total blockade that Israel maintains since the beginning of this conflict at the entrance of the international press in Gaza.
The only and few exceptions have been those of reporters who have entered in a timely manner “embedded” with Israeli troops and without freedom of movement.
The victims of this last attack against the press in the Palestinian territory formed A team of the Catarí Al Jazeerawhich accused Israel of having committed a “selective murder.”
Funeral for death of Palestinian journalists
Dozens of people accompanied the coffins to the Sheikh Redouan cemetery in Ciudad de Gaza, according to a cameraman of AFP.
The victims are The reporters anas to the Sharif and Mohammed Qreiqeh, and the Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal and Moamen Aliwa cameramen.
In the same attack, the independent journalist Mohammed Al Khaldi, an occasional collaborator of local media, according to the hospital Al Chifa lost his life.
The Israeli army acknowledged that the attack was directed against Sharif, whom he described as “terrorist” that “he passed through a journalist,” A position that several international press organizations rejected.
“Journalists are civilians. They should never be objective in a war. And doing so is a war crime,” said Jodie Ginsberg, executive director of the Committee for the Protection of Journalists (CPJ), AFP.
The Palestinian journalist union described the fact as A “bloody crime”, while reporters without borders (RSF) said “horrified” for the death of the communicators.
For his part, Al Jazeera condemned what happened as “a desperate attempt to silence the voices that denounce the Israeli occupation.”
