After the massacre of journalists, a request was made to suspend EU agreements with Tel Aviv.
According to Al-Sharq al-Awsat, about 60 international organizations defending the rights of journalists requested the European Union to suspend the partnership agreement with the Zionist regime due to the violation of media freedom and the unprecedented killing of journalists since the beginning of the war in the Gaza Strip.
These organizations, including the Committee to Protect Journalists, Reporters Without Borders, Human Rights Watch, and the Union of European Journalists, stated in a letter to the European Union that the cabinet of Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of the Zionist regime, since the beginning of the Gaza war on October 7, 2023, a series of It has taken measures to limit the freedom of the media, which has practically led to the establishment of a censorship system.
The organizations called on EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell and EU trade commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis to suspend the partnership agreement, which specifically covers trade with Israel, and to impose targeted sanctions against those responsible for human rights abuses. do
In this letter, it is stated that more than 100 Palestinian journalists and three Lebanese journalists have been killed in this war. While pointing out that some of these journalists have been the target of targeted assassination operations, international institutions have described this period as the “deadliest” period in history for journalists in recent decades.
These organizations pointed to the ban on foreign journalists entering the Gaza Strip and the arbitrary arrests of media activists, including the arrest of at least 49 of them, and stated that the cumulative effect of these violations created conditions for creating a media vacuum and space for propaganda and information. Opens incorrectly.
International organizations defending the rights of journalists, especially as the European Union Foreign Ministers’ meeting approaches on August 29 in Brussels, called for the preservation of media freedom, the protection of journalists’ lives, and an end to the impunity of the Zionist regime.