IOF inciting against journalists to assassinate them: Gaza Media

By Al Mayadeen English
Source: Al Mayadeen
12 Feb 2024 01:22
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The Government Media Office in Gaza says the Israeli military occasionally attempts to market false narratives about journalists as a prelude to assassinating or killing them.

A funeral ceremony is held for Palestinian journalists Saeed al-Taweel and Mohammad Sobh, who were killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza on Tuesday. (Ashraf Amra/Anadolu Agency)

The Government Media Office in Gaza reported Sunday that the Israeli occupation military is once again engaging in incitement to continue the assassination of Palestinian journalists and attempting to justify its crimes.

In a press release, the Office said that the Israeli occupation military "occasionally issues inciting publications against various media outlets and Palestinian journalists, attempting to market false narratives as a prelude to assassinating or killing them, as well as justify its crimes and obscure the Palestinian narrative."

It pointed out that "this has been repeated dozens of times since the start of the genocidal war."

According to the statement, the Israeli occupation publishes photos and videos of journalists and photographers, as if condemning them, but it "selectively extracts them from reports they have prepared and previously broadcasted on television channels and through social media, as part of their daily field journalistic work."

"We have issued previous statements and declarations, clarifying that the occupation engages in incitement against various Palestinian sectors and employees in diverse fields," the Office noted.

This includes incitement against the health sector, hospitals, doctors, as well as mosques, schools, universities, and many other sectors, it added.

The statement emphasized that the occupation's aim of this incitement is to try to justify its targeting of all Palestinian sectors and the killing of doctors, teachers, journalists, and others who have been explicitly targeted.

The Government Media Office in Gaza held the Israeli occupation fully responsible for the lives of the Palestinian people, warning "the world against the occupation's targeting of journalists, doctors, teachers, civil defense personnel, and all categories of our Palestinian society."

It also called on "all free world countries to pressure the occupation to stop the genocidal war it is waging against civilians, children, women, and all categories of the Palestinian society."

It is noteworthy that the number of Palestinian journalists who have been martyred in the Gaza Strip since October 7 in Israeli bombardment has reached 115, surpassing the number of journalists killed worldwide in the years 2021 and 2022.

In early February, UN human rights experts sounded the alarm over soaring numbers of journalists killed in the war on Gaza, denouncing the "deliberate" Israeli strategy of silencing critical reporting.