IFJ pledges to sue Zionist entity

BRUSSELS, Jan. 28 (YPA) – The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has pledged to sue the Zionist entity if journalists continue to be targeted in the Gaza Strip.

The union said, in a statement on Saturday, published on its website on Saturday, that it “will take legal action against Israeli politicians and military leaders if they do not comply with the orders of the International Court of Justice regarding the targeting of journalists.”

IFJ’s President, Dominique Bradali, and IFJ’s Secretary-General, Anthony Belanger, sent a letter to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Galant, telling them that the 600,000 IFJ members consider journalists in Gaza “colleagues.”

The letter affirmed that one of the tasks of the federation is to protect and promote the rights and freedoms of journalists and to defend media freedom and the independence of the press, noting that the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate is one of the IFJ members, and journalists in more than 140 countries consider its members as their colleagues.

“We have watched with increasing horror the growing number of deaths among journalists in Gaza since October 7, and as you know, the death toll now represents about 10% of journalists in the Gaza Strip,” the letter added.

The letter referred to the decision of the International Court of Justice, which ordered Israel “to take all measures within its power to stop killing Palestinians in violation of the Genocide Convention.”

According to the latest statistics by the government media office in Gaza, on Saturday, the number of journalists who were killed as a result of the Israeli aggression on the Strip reached 120.

YPA