GAZA (Palestine Foundation Information Center) The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights affirmed on Monday that the targeting and killing of six journalists in Gaza by Israeli occupation authorities constitutes “a blatant breach of international humanitarian law.”
According to the commission, the Israeli army struck a tent sheltering five members of Al Jazeera’s crew, including correspondent Anas Al-Sharif, along with an independent photographer, in an attack that Israel admitted to carrying out.
The commission noted that at least 242 Palestinian journalists have been killed in Gaza since the war began in October 2023.
In this context, European Union Commissioner for Equality, Hadja Lahbib, described Israel’s killing of journalists in Gaza, including Anas Al-Sharif, as a direct blow to press freedom.
In a statement posted on her account on the X platform, Lahbib condemned the killing of journalists and stressed the urgent need to protect civilians and the press at all times.
Since the start of its bloody war on the Gaza Strip in October 2023, Israel has carried out documented public incitement to kill Palestinian journalists, placing them in constant danger as they work in the field to document the occupation’s crimes against their defenseless people, from killings and starvation to mass displacement.
On Sunday evening, Israeli warplanes targeted a journalists’ tent at Al-Shifa Hospital in western Gaza City, killing seven people, including members of Al Jazeera’s crew.
According to the Government Media Office, the number of journalists killed since the start of the genocide in Gaza has risen to 238.
