Journalists' Syndicate: The Occupation Committed the Largest Media Genocide in Gaza in the History of Humanity

SadaNews - The Palestinian Journalists' Syndicate stated that the Israeli occupation has committed the largest and first media genocide in the history of humanity in Gaza during two years of continuous Israeli war against the people of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including occupied Jerusalem.

The syndicate demanded in a statement issued today, Tuesday, coinciding with the passage of two years since the continuous Israeli war on Gaza, "all governments, parliaments, institutions, and international bodies to pressure the occupation to allow international and Arab journalists into Gaza."

The syndicate's statement read: "After two years of continuous Israeli aggression on Gaza, two years of blood and killing, and two years of the assassination of truth at the hands of the occupation army, during these days, two years ago, the Israeli killing machine opened the gates of hell on the Gaza Strip, where the aggression was a well-thought-out and systematic decision to annihilate life, primarily the annihilation of media through journalists and media institutions that were crushed and exterminated by the occupation in its entirety by attempting to silence the voice, uprooting the camera, executing, arresting, and injuring witnesses."

It added: "We, at the Palestinian Journalists' Syndicate, do not count numbers but rather names, faces, memories, colleagues, and friends we lived with, and they have families, dreams, and humane lives that the occupation assassinated. We count the last message a journalist sent to his colleague before he was torn apart by rockets, the last photo he took before he was buried under the rubble, and the last live broadcast that ended with the sound of moaning and the cry of 'We are being targeted, we are dying,' and we live the pain, injustice, oppression, and daily suffering, as more than 252 male and female journalists were martyred in two years, some were killed with their families in their homes, some were targeted while raising their cameras, not weapons, and others were assassinated for writing and publishing the truth."

The statement added: "Hundreds of the wounded, some of whom lost their limbs, others lost the light of their eyes, but none of them lost their faith in the truth; as for the detainees, some spent months in solitary confinement merely for publishing a news story or exposing a crime."

The syndicate emphasized that this war is not just a war on Gaza, but a war on human conscience, on the profession of journalism, and on the world's right to see, hear, and know. The occupation does not only kill journalists but also kills the narrative it does not want the world to know.

It said: "We confirm that we, at the Palestinian Journalists' Syndicate, can only be a voice for those whose voices have been silenced, a camera for those whose lenses have been broken, and a call from those who can no longer call out. Therefore, we announce to the entire world: The martyrdom of this number of journalists in just two years is the first and largest media genocide in modern times and the first of its kind in human history, and it is a disgrace to anyone who remains silent or equates the perpetrator with the victim."

The syndicate saluted all international institutions that stood with the truth and justice for Palestinian journalists, led by the International Federation of Journalists, demanding that anyone who has not taken a stand against the crimes of the occupation that it is time to support the oppressed, the victim, the downtrodden, and the wronged.

The General Secretariat of the Palestinian Journalists' Syndicate pledged to continue the legal, moral, and media battle by all means and at all levels to defend our journalists and expose the war crimes and extermination committed by the occupation against our journalists until the killers of journalists are held accountable, calling on everyone in all international forums to take a moral stand that saves what remains of our shared humanity.

The syndicate also urged colleagues around the world by saying: "Do not allow the assassination of journalism in Palestine, for its assassination here is its assassination everywhere."