UN condemns the crime of Israel's assassination of the Al Jazeera team in Gaza.

The United Nations Human Rights Commission condemned today, Monday, the assassination of 6 Palestinian journalists by the Israeli occupation army, including Al Jazeera correspondents Anas Al-Sharif and Muhammad Qareqea, due to the bombing of their tent in Gaza City. The commission considered this a "flagrant violation of international humanitarian law."

In its condemnation of the massacre of journalists, the UN commission stated via X platform: "Israel must respect and protect all civilians in the Gaza Strip, including journalists." It added that it "condemns the killing of 6 Palestinian journalists by Israeli army fire targeting their tent, in a blatant violation of international humanitarian law."

The commission also called for immediate, safe, and unhindered access for all journalists from global media to the Gaza Strip, which has been facing a fierce Israeli war for 22 months. The spokesperson for the UN Human Rights Commission emphasized that Israel must respect and protect journalists, not target them.

The treacherous assassination targeted Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif, a symbol of media coverage of the war on the Gaza Strip, along with another correspondent from the channel, Muhammad Qareqea, and 3 members of the filming crew, after a direct targeting of their tent set up in front of the Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City.

This crime by the Israeli occupation follows a concentrated campaign of threats and incitement launched by Israeli army spokesperson Avichai Adraee against journalist Al-Sharif, which lasted for many months. Earlier today, the government media office in Gaza announced the death of journalist Muhammad Al-Khalidi due to injuries sustained from an Israeli bombing that targeted the journalists' tent near Al-Shifa Hospital.

With this new crime by the occupation, the number of martyrs among journalists has risen to 238 since the beginning of the genocide war on Gaza on October 7, 2023, according to the government media office in the sector. Since the beginning of the Israeli genocide war, Al-Sharif and Qareqea have not stopped reporting on the events, developments, and repercussions of the ongoing bombardment on the sector.

Palestinian and international journalistic bodies mourned the Al Jazeera crew that fell last night, confirming that the crime comes as part of ongoing Israeli attempts to silence voices and images, and to continue committing acts of genocide away from the cameras' lenses.

The journalistic bodies also considered this crime a direct targeting of freedom of expression. Since October 7, 2023, Israel, with American support, has been committing genocide in Gaza that includes killing, starvation, destruction, and displacement, ignoring international calls and orders from the International Court of Justice to stop.

The Israeli genocide has resulted in 61,430 martyrs and 153,213 injured, in addition to thousands of missing persons and hundreds of thousands of displaced individuals, and famine that has claimed many lives, including dozens of children.