...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
, Washington Post and Israel’s Haaretz, among several others
Three dozen leaders at news organizations around the world have signed a letter expressing solidarity with journalists in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
, calling for their safety and freedom to report in the war zone.
The letter, released Thursday, was spearheaded by the Committee to Protect Journalists, which said at least 89 journalists and media workers have been killed in the Israel-Hamas
...a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...war, the vast majority of them Paleostinians.
And how many of them were primarily members of Hamas or one of the other jihadi groups in Gaza, and only secondarily professional journalists?
Leaders at The News Agency that Dare Not be Named, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Rooters, New Yorker, CNN...formerly the
Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for...
, NBC News and ABC News have signed on. International signatories include the BBC, Der Spiegel in Germany, Agence La Belle France-Presse, Daily Maverick in South Africa, Nawaiwaqt Group in Pakistain and The Asahi Shimbun in Japan.
Aluf Benn, editor-in-chief of Israeli left-leaning news outlet Haaretz, signed the letter as well.
Ha’aretz doesn’t merely lean to the left, they fell over decades ago.
More organizations are welcome to participate, said Jodie Ginsberg, CEO of the Committee to Protect Journalists."We felt that it was important that we show that the international journalism community stands in solidarity with our Paleostinian colleagues," Ginsberg said.
The letter says that journalists are civilians and that Israeli authorities must protect them as noncombatants in accordance with international law. Anyone violating this should be held accountable, it said.
"Attacks on journalists are also attacks on truth," the letter said. "We commit to championing the safety of journalists in Gaza, which is fundamental for the protection of press freedom everywhere."
Israel is only mentioned once in the letter. While CPJ has advocated for more access for journalists in Gaza, the letter steered clear of that subject because it was important to focus on solidarity, Ginsberg said. She would not comment on whether any news organization contacted chose not to participate.
Israel has presented evidence that several Paleostinian journalists working in Gaza have also been active members of terror groups like Hamas.
A number of survivors of the Hamas October 7 attack on Israel and families of victims also filed a lawsuit in Florida against The News Agency that Dare Not be Named, accusing the news agency of being complicit in the Paleostinian terror group’s killing spree by working with freelance photojournalists they believe were embedded with the thousands of hard boyz who overran southern communities.
The lawsuit names four freelance photographers whose work was bought and published by the AP and other outlets, claiming they are "known Hamas associates who were gleefully embedded with the Hamas hard boyz during the October 7th attacks."
The four captured some of the earliest images, widely disseminated, of the shock attack as it was unfolding. AP said the case was "baseless."
Israel denies targeting journalists and says it makes every effort to avoid harming civilians, blaming the high corpse count on the fact that Hamas fights in densely populated urban areas and embeds itself deliberately among civilians who are used as human shields. In a statement on December 16, the Israeli army said "the IDF has never, and will never, deliberately target journalists."
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