Israel’s attack on journalists’ vehicle in Gaza amounts to ‘war crime’: Iran Foreign Ministry
The spokesman for Iran’s Foreign Ministry has strongly condemned as “war crime” a deliberate attack by the Israeli regime on the Gaza Strip which killed at least five Palestinian journalists.
“The occupying forces' attack on the journalists' vehicle is undoubtedly a war crime,” Esmaeil Baqaei said on Thursday.
He added that journalists and media personnel working in conflict zones are considered to be civilians and must therefore be immune from any attack under the international humanitarian law.
The Iranian spokesman called on the International Court of Justice to add Israel’s latest crime to the regime’s case of genocide regarding its criminal acts in the occupied Palestine.
He pointed to the killing of more than 200 journalists during 15 months of Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza and emphasized that it falls within the regime’s bids to stop awareness of the global public opinion about the extent of the crimes committed against the Palestinian people.
The Iranian diplomat warned that the continuation of Israel’s blatant violations of the international humanitarian law in Gaza and lack of an appropriate response from relevant responsible global bodies in dealing with such crimes could seriously discredit international norms and rules pertaining to war.
In one of Israel’s latest attacks, five journalists were killed on Thursday morning after the regime’s warplanes struck a vehicle carrying a press crew in front of Al-Awda Hospital in central Gaza.
The journalists worked for the Al-Quds Al-Youm television channel.
The vehicle was bearing the words "Press" in red letters and was used by journalists to report from inside the hospital and the Nuseirat camp, Palestinian media and local reporters said.
The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate said last week that more than 190 journalists had been killed and at least 400 others injured since the start of Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza.
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