The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates strongly condemned the systematic Israeli targeting of journalists covering the aggressive war on the Gaza Strip, the latest of which was the targeting of Al Jazeera correspondents Anas Al-Sharif and Mohammed Qreiqa, along with photographers Ibrahim Al-Zaher and Mohammed Noufal, which resulted in their deaths.
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The Ministry’s spokesperson, Ambassador Dr. Sufyan Qudah, affirmed the Kingdom’s rejection and condemnation of targeting journalists, considering it a war crime that requires holding the perpetrators accountable. He stressed that such crimes against media professionals constitute a blatant violation of international law, international humanitarian law, and the 1949 Geneva Convention on the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War.
Qudah renewed the call for the international community to shoulder its legal and moral responsibilities, to immediately halt the Israeli aggression, to provide international protection for journalists, medical staff, and humanitarian organizations working in Gaza, to fulfill the Palestinian people’s legitimate rights to establish their independent state on their national soil, and to stop crimes against them and hold the perpetrators accountable.
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