The community vows to proceed its protection of the Israeli assaults on the Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied West Financial institution.
Within the early hours of Sunday morning, Israeli occupation forces raided Al Jazeera Media Community’s workplace in Ramallah within the occupied West Financial institution and ordered its speedy closure.
This motion follows the choice by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cupboard in Might 2024 to close down Al Jazeera’s operations inside Israel.
The community vehemently condemns and denounces this legal act by the Israeli occupation forces.
Al Jazeera rejects the draconian actions and the unfounded allegations offered by Israeli authorities to justify these unlawful raids. Al Jazeera reaffirms its unwavering dedication to proceed reporting on the war on Gaza and the continuing occupation of the Palestinian territories and the regional escalation.
The raid on the workplace and seizure of our gear isn’t solely an assault on Al Jazeera, however an affront to press freedom and the very ideas of journalism. These oppressive measures are clearly meant to stop the world from witnessing the fact of the scenario within the occupied territories and the continuing struggle on Gaza and the devastating impression on harmless civilians.
Regardless of these egregious makes an attempt to stifle Al Jazeera’s voice and sever Al Jazeera’s reporting to the world, the community stays steadfast in its mission: to report the reality with integrity, even beneath essentially the most difficult and harmful circumstances. Al Jazeera is not going to be intimidated or deterred by efforts to silence its protection.
Israel’s ongoing suppression of the free press is blatantly geared toward concealing its actions within the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Financial institution, in contravention of worldwide and humanitarian regulation. Israel’s direct focusing on and killing of journalists, together with arrests, intimidation, and threats, is not going to deter Al Jazeera from its dedication to protection.
Al Jazeera urges all organisations advocating for media freedom and human rights, together with different involved entities, to sentence these repeated assaults on journalists and the press by Israel and to demand accountability for these looking for to bury the reality beneath the rubble of struggle.
The community holds Netanyahu’s authorities answerable for the protection of its journalists and can pursue all out there authorized channels via worldwide authorized establishments to guard each its rights and its journalists, in addition to the general public’s proper to data.
