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Business Recorder
3 days ago
- Politics
- Business Recorder
CPJ demands probe into murder of journalist
NEW YORK: Pakistani authorities must immediately investigate the May 24 killing of journalist Latif Baloch in Balochistan and ensure the perpetrators are brought to justice, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said Tuesday. 'Pakistani authorities must immediately investigate the reasons behind Latif Baloch's killing and determine whether it was linked to his work as a journalist,' said Beh Lih Yi, CPJ's Asia regional director. 'Journalists in Pakistan face growing violence and intimidation from both state and non-state actors. The government must ensure the safety and freedom of journalists in Balochistan and across the country.' Baloch was affiliated with some major media outlets. Balochistan police Inspector General, Moazzam Jah Ansari, did not respond to CPJ's request for comment via messaging app.
The National
5 days ago
- General
- The National
'Show the injustices': Grand Imam of Al Azhar calls on Arab media to rally behind Gaza
The Grand Imam of Al Azhar has called on Arab journalists to focus on the war in Gaza and establish a joint media strategy to protect the truth and Arab identity. Dr Ahmed El Tayeb, who is also chairman of the Muslim Council of Elders, said Arab media had a role to play in showing the injustices in Gaza and how its people were being treated. 'Arab media should focus day and night on Gaza's destruction and war and terrible violations that have been criticised by all people of the world for 19 months,' Dr El Tayeb said in keynote speech at the Arab Media Summit in Dubai on Tuesday. 'Arab media has the biggest role in disclosing and showing the injustices in Gaza and keeping the Palestinian cause at the front of nations' minds.' He recalled tragedy of hundreds of Palestinian journalists who were either killed or injured. 'Over 200 journalists in Gaza are martyred and more are injured or have lost their homes and families. This deliberate targeting of journalists aims to silence the truth and to stop the reality of the horrific aggression in Gaza,' he said. Dr El Tayeb said there was a change of stance on the Palestinian cause by many European countries, who were now standing up over what Gaza is facing. He thanked Arab governments for their efforts to provide aid to Gazans. 'I also salute the free people of the world who consider what is happening as humanitarian crime that should stop immediately,' he said. Dr El Tayeb underscored the vital role of media in addressing global challenges, promoting dialogue and supporting societal values. 'Arabs and Muslims have suffered from media damage in the West after being accused of terrorism and being unfair to women,' he said. 'We are still waiting for intensive media efforts to stand against Islamophobia.' Dr El Tayeb said he had held discussions with the late Pope Francis and the Vatican to create a document about the ethics of artificial intelligence, to protect the interests of the public. 'The rapid development of AI should be regulated and surrounded with morality and ethical considerations, in order not to turn into a monster threatening humanity,' he said. 'The document was almost finalised and was about to announce but the Pope passed before we had finished. We are in communicant with Vatican to finish the project.'
Globe and Mail
5 days ago
- Politics
- Globe and Mail
Far-right Israelis confront Palestinians, other Israelis in chaotic Jerusalem march
A large rally in Jerusalem marking Israel's capture of the city's east in the 1967 war descended into chaos on Monday as far-right Israeli Jews confronted and assaulted Palestinians, fellow Israelis and journalists, witnesses said. The annual 'Flag March' drew tens of thousands of people, chanting, dancing and waving Israeli flags after far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir visited the Al-Aqsa mosque compound, a longtime flashpoint of Israeli-Palestinian tensions. Violence broke out in the walled Old City of East Jerusalem shortly after midday, a Reuters witness said, when young marchers began harassing the few Palestinian shopkeepers who had yet to shutter their stores ahead of the rally. The marchers, mostly young Israelis who live in settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, then began to target Israeli left-wing activists and journalists observing the rally. The demonstrators shouted nationalistic slogans and called for violence against Palestinians, chanting: 'Death to Arabs'. A Palestinian woman and journalists were spat on by a group of young settlers, and nearby Israeli police did not intervene, the Reuters witness said. Police officials did not respond to a request for comment. No arrests were reported as of late afternoon. A police officer at the scene said young Israeli marchers could not be arrested because they were under the age of 18. Moshe, a 35-year-old Israeli settler from the West Bank and supporter of the current right-wing government, walked through a Palestinian neighbourhood of the Old City with a rifle slung over his shoulder and his daughter on his shoulders. It was a 'very happy day' because all of Jerusalem was 'under the government of Israel,' he said, declining to give his last name. Left-wing opposition leader Yair Golan, a former armed forces deputy commander, called images of violence in the Old City 'shocking'. He said in a statement: 'This is not what loving Jerusalem looks like. This is what hatred, racism and bullying look like.' 'We will keep Jerusalem united, whole, and under Israeli sovereignty,' Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a cabinet meeting held in East Jerusalem earlier on Monday. A spokesperson for the Palestinian presidency based in the West Bank condemned the march and Ben Gvir's visit to Al-Aqsa. Israel's ongoing war in Gaza, 'repeated incursions into the Al-Aqsa mosque compound and provocative acts such as raising the Israeli flag in occupied Jerusalem threaten the stability of the entire region,' the spokesperson, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, said in a statement. Clashes flared throughout the day as left-wing Israeli activists intervened to escort Palestinians away from young far-right Israeli Jews threatening passersby, witnesses said. Journalists covering the rally were repeatedly harassed and in some instances assaulted, the Reuters witness said. Earlier, Ben Gvir visited the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in the walled Old City, known to Jews as Temple Mount and to Arabs as the Noble Sanctuary - the third holiest site in Islam. Ben Gvir said in a video filmed at the elevated compound that the site was being flooded by Jews. 'Today, thank God, it is already possible to pray on the Temple Mount,' he said. Under a decades-old arrangement, the compound is administered by a Jordanian Islamic trust. Jews, who regard the compound as the site of two ancient temples, are allowed to visit but not pray there. Ben Gvir, whose visit was condemned by the Palestinian Authority and Jordan, has along with others on the far right in Israel long pushed for Jewish prayer rights at the site. This year's Flag March again coincided with the war in Gaza, now in its 20th month, and escalating Israeli military operations against Palestinian militants in the West Bank, where settler attacks targeting Palestinian residents have been on the rise. The march frequently stokes tension as ultranationalist Jews stream into Palestinian areas of Jerusalem's walled Old City en route to the Western Wall, one of Judaism's most sacred sites, which abuts the mosque compound. The 2021 rally led to a brief war between Israel and Palestinian Islamist militant group Hamas. The current war in Gaza was sparked by Hamas' October 2023 attack on southern Israeli communities. Israel captured East Jerusalem, including the Old City, from Jordan in the 1967 Middle East war. Palestinians seek East Jerusalem as the capital of a future state that would include the West Bank and Gaza. Most countries consider East Jerusalem to be occupied territory and do not recognize Israeli sovereignty over it. Israel deems Jerusalem as its eternal, indivisible capital. In 2017, U.S. President Donald Trump recognized all of Jerusalem as Israel's capital and moved the U.S. embassy there from Tel Aviv. On Sunday, U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee, an evangelical Christian, congratulated Israel on what he called the reunification of the city 58 years ago. Naomi Hirschler, 39, an Israeli hairdresser from Jerusalem, walking past shuttered Palestinian-owned stores in the Old City, said she attends the rally every year. 'It's something you can't explain. You feel it. It's happiness from inside,' she said, adding that she was 'very happy that we have Jerusalem for us.'
SBS Australia
6 days ago
- Politics
- SBS Australia
Gaza rescue official, journalist killed as Israel seizes 77 per cent of the strip
Colonel Ashraf Abu Nar, the director of Civil Defence Operations in Gaza, and his wife, were killed in an Israeli attack on Nuseirat refugee camp. Source: Getty / Anadolu Israeli airstrikes in Khan Younis, Jabalia, and Nuseirat reportedly killed at least 30 people on Sunday. Hassan Abu Warda, a journalist, and Ashraf Abu Nar, a senior rescue service official, were killed along with family. Israel's ground invasion of Gaza has seized 77 per cent of the strip, according to the Gaza media office. Israeli military strikes killed at least 30 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip on Sunday, including a senior rescue service official and a journalist, local health authorities said. The latest deaths in the Israeli campaign resulted from separate Israeli strikes in Khan Younis in the south, Jabalia in the north and Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip, medics said. In Jabalia, they said local journalist Hassan Majdi Abu Warda and several family members were killed by an airstrike that hit his house earlier on Sunday. Another airstrike in Nuseirat killed Ashraf Abu Nar, a senior official in the territory's civil emergency service, and his wife in their house, medics added. The Gaza government media office said that Abu Warda's death raised the number of Palestinian journalists killed in Gaza since October 2023 to 220. In a statement, the Gaza media office said Israeli forces were in control of 77 per cent of the Gaza Strip, either through ground forces or evacuation orders and bombardments that keep residents away from their homes. Israel's military said in a statement that chief of staff Eyal Zamir visited troops in Khan Younis on Sunday, telling them that "this is not an endless war" and that Hamas has lost most of its assets, including its command and control. "We will deploy every tool at our disposal to bring the hostages home, dismantle Hamas and dismantle its rule," Zamir was cited as saying. Later on Sunday, the International Committee of the Red Cross said in a statement that two of its staff - Ibrahim Eid and Ahmad Abu Hilal — had been killed in a strike on a house in Khan Younis on Saturday. "Their killing points to the intolerable civilian death toll in Gaza. The ICRC reiterates its urgent call for a ceasefire and for the respect and protection of civilians, including medical, humanitarian relief, and civil defence personnel," the ICRC statement added. The armed wing of Hamas and the Islamic Jihad said in separate statements on Sunday that fighters carried out several ambushes and attacks using bombs and anti-tank rockets against Israeli forces operating in several areas across Gaza. On Friday, the Israeli military said it had conducted more strikes in Gaza overnight, hitting 75 targets including weapons storage facilities and rocket launchers. The conflict has killed more than 53,900 Palestinians, according to Gaza health authorities, and devastated the coastal strip. Aid groups say signs of severe malnutrition are widespread. Israel launched the assault on Gaza after the Hamas militant cross-border attack on October 7, 2023, which killed 1,200 people by Israeli tallies with 251 hostages abducted into Gaza.
Fox News
24-05-2025
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- Fox News
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