6 days ago
- Politics
- Egypt Independent
'Every journalist in Gaza is writing his own obituary,' Al Jazeera director of news says
Al Jazeera English's director of news, Salah Negm, has just said the Israeli strike that killed several of the network's journalists amounted to 'killing the messenger and trying to eliminate any eyewitness to atrocities and genocide.'
The Israeli strike in Gaza City late last night killed seven people including at least four journalists from the news network Al Jazeera.
'They have been working for two years under very difficult circumstances, risking their lives in order for one thing to happen, to bring the truth about what is happening in Gaza to the outside world,' Negm told CNN's Christina Macfarlane on Connect the World. 'Our correspondents died doing this.'
He said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had previously 'promised to secure' the journalists.
'He promised to secure them,' he said. 'And this is how he secured journalists, killing five of them.'
'Every journalist in Gaza is writing his own obituary,' he added. 'Because if you are in Gaza, you are not safe anywhere.'
Israel has consistently argued that it is acting in accordance with international law and that its war in Gaza following the deadly Hamas attacks on October 7, 2023 is one of self-defense.
