By Black Star News
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Media advocacy group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is calling for a emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council over Israel’s targeted murders of six journalists, four of them from the Al Jazeera network, on Sunday.
The assassinated journalists, killed on August 10th, are: Anas al-Sharif, Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent; Mohammed Qreiqeh, Al Jazeera correspondent; Ibrahim Zaher, Al Jazeera camera operator; Moamen Aliwa, freelance camera operator; Mohammed Noufal, Al Jazeera camera operator; Mohammad al-Khaldi, freelance journalist.
RSF denounced Israel’s unproven assertion that their main target, Anas al-Sharif had a “terrorist affiliation.”
RSF’s Director General Thibaut Bruttin condemned the Israeli government’s murders of these journalists.
“RSF strongly condemns the killing of six media professionals by the Israeli army, once again carried out under the guise of terrorism charges against a journalist. One of the most famous journalists in the Gaza Strip, Anas al-Sharif, was among those killed. The Israeli army has killed more than 200 journalists since the start of the war. This massacre and Israel’s media blackout strategy, designed to conceal the crimes committed by its army for more than 21 months in the besieged and starving Palestinian enclave, must be stopped immediately. The international community can no longer turn a blind eye and must react and put an end to this impunity. RSF calls on the UN Security Council to meet urgently on the basis of Resolution 2222 of 2015 on the protection of journalists in times of armed conflict in order to stop this carnage.”
In October 2024, the RSF had warned that the Israeli government was planning to murder Anas al-Sharif following unproven accusations against the Al Jazeera reporter. The RSF reported that the United States, the United Kingdom, and the European Union, all ignored their warnings about Israel’s plan to assassinate Anas al-Sharif.
The RSF points out that under Resolution 2222 of 2015, the United Nations has a duty to intervene when the safety of journalists are at risk in conflicts of war. RSF says the United Nations has a duty to act now after the murders of these six journalists.
Since October 2023, the RSF has filed four complaints with the International Criminal Court (ICC) calling for investigations into war crimes committed by Israel against Palestinian journalists in Gaza.
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