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How impunity fuels Israel’s attacks on journalists in Gaza and Lebanon

Israel continues to target journalists because of the global failure to hold it accountable for abuses, advocates say.

A damaged vehicle marked with 'Press' at the site of an Israeli strike that killed three journalists and wounded several others in Hasbaiyya in southern Lebanon, October 25 [Reuters]

By Alice Speri

Published On 25 Oct 202425 Oct 2024

The apparent targeted killing of three media workers in an Israeli air strike in southern Lebanon on Friday has renewed calls for ending impunity for Israel’s abuses.

Advocates say the mounting death toll of journalists killed by the Israeli military in the expanding conflict is a result of the failure of the international community – particularly the United States, Israel’s top backer – to hold the country accountable.

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The killing of media workers in Lebanon came days after Israel baselessly accused several Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza of being members of Palestinian armed groups, raising concerns about their safety.

“The events of recent days are alarming, and should serve as a wake-up call for the US government and other states that have the power to hold the Israeli government to account and put a stop to this violence,” said Rebecca Vincent, campaign director at Reporters Without Borders (RSF).

Friday’s deadly attack in Lebanon targeted a compound where several journalists and media workers were staying – in an area removed from fighting. There was no warning before the strike, which destroyed several buildings and left cars marked “press” covered in rubble.

“This is an assassination, after monitoring and tracking, with premeditation and planning, as there were 18 journalists present at the location representing seven media institutions,” Lebanon’s Information Minister Ziad Makary wrote on social media.

The killings add to one of the deadliest records for journalists covering a conflict in years.

At least 128 journalists and media workers are among the tens of thousands of people Israel has killed in Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon over the past year — the deadliest time for journalists since the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) began to track the killings more than four decades ago.

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kt comments:

The extreme EVIL of the Joo-ish State has been immensely enhanced by the complicity of the idiotic religiously-blind Wankees.

To paraphrase Churchill: 'Never in the field of human conflict was so much EVIL done by so few to so many' [all because of moronic religiously-blinded Wankees]