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The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today condemned the far-right Israeli government’s killing of 100 journalists since Oct. 7.
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) says at least 69 journalists and media workers have been killed since Oct. 7, 62 of them Palestinian. CPJ: “More journalists have been killed in the first 10 weeks of the Israel-Gaza war than have ever been killed in a single country over an entire year, according to CPJ data.” More than 50 media facilities in Gaza have been targeted by Israeli attacks and journalists say they are targeted intentionally.
[NOTE: More than 110,000 Americans have used CAIR’s action alert to contact their members of Congress and call for an end to the violence and the renewal of U.S.-led efforts to end the occupation. SEE: Urge Your Members of Congress to Address Root Cause of Mideast Violence]
Israel has now killed more than 20,000 people in Gaza, mostly women and children, and including hundreds of UN workers, journalists and medical personnel.
In a statement, CAIR National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper said:
“Media professionals worldwide must speak out in defense of their Palestinian colleagues. They must also push back against the far-right Israeli government’s campaign to silence coverage of its ongoing genocide and ethnic cleansing in Gaza.”
He noted that last year, CAIR welcomed an FBI investigation of the murder of American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh by the Israeli military.
Monday, CAIR called for an international probe of online images showing hundreds of Palestinians civilians including the disabled, women, the elderly, and even a baby, most stripped to their underwear and paraded in a captured Gaza stadium.
