CPJ denounces Israel’s killing of 2 more Gaza journalists in return to war
The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns Monday’s killing in Gaza of Palestinian reporters Hossam Shabat and Mohammed Mansour by the Israel Defense Forces and calls for an independent international investigation into whether they were deliberately targeted.
On March 24, deadly Israeli strikes hit the car of Qatari-based Al Jazeera Mubasher’s Shabat near northern Gaza’s Beit Lahia, and the home in southern Gaza’s Khan Yunis of Mansour, who worked for the pro-Islamic Jihad, Beirut-based Palestine Today TV.
“CPJ is appalled that we are once again seeing Palestinians weeping over the bodies of dead journalists in Gaza,” said CPJ’s Program Director Carlos Martinez de la Serna in New York. “This nightmare in Gaza has to end. The international community must act fast to ensure that journalists are kept safe and hold Israel to account for the deaths of Hossam Shabat and Mohammed Mansour, whose killings may have been targeted.”
On March 18, Israel resumed airstrikes, ending the January 19 Gaza ceasefire.
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CPJ, 27 other media groups urge US to protect press
The Committee to Protect Journalists joined 27 other media groups on March 19 in voicing support for a free press, and called on the U.S. to protect reporters and media workers employed by the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM).
The letter, organized by CPJ, said eliminating the agency’s outlets, which have reached audiences living under authoritarian rule for more than 80 years, was a “significant blow to press freedom.”
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