Palestinian National Council: The Israeli occupation’s targeting of journalists in Gaza Strip is a war crime

Occupied, (ST) – The Palestinian National Council affirmed that the Israeli occupation’s targeting of journalists during its ongoing aggression against Gaza Strip since the seventh of last October is a war crime and a flagrant violation of all the rules of war, agreements and treaties, especially the Geneva Convention, which emphasizes the protection of journalists in times of war and crises.

The Council clarified in a statement carried by Wafa News Agency that World Press Freedom Day, which was yesterday, marks this year in the Palestinian territories, and the war of genocide and ethnic cleansing continues for the 210th day against the Palestinian people in Gaza Strip, where the occupation forces continue their systematic violations of killing, executions, and arrests against Palestinian civilians and journalists, female journalists, their families, and all those working in the media field, with the aim of preventing them from covering the press to reveal the horrors and cruelty of crimes and massacres committed by the occupation in Gaza Strip and the entire occupied Palestinian territories.

The Council went on to say: The United States’ denial of its principles of freedom, justice, and human rights, which it praises and claims to implement, is a moral scandal, as it protects and defends the crimes of the occupation. “This denial is really a moral decline that exposes the lies, hypocrisy, and unjust standards of Western society, led by the American administration”, the Council added.

The Council called on human rights organizations, journalistic institutions and world parliaments to condemn these unequivocal crimes and killings and to press for the occupation leaders to be brought before the criminal court, and to hold them accountable for this huge number of victims of journalists who were killed by ferocious terrorist aggression.

Raghda Sawas