PCI and IWPC demand Israel to be held accountable for killing journalists at Gaza
The Press Club of India and The Indian Women Press Corps have strongly condemned the targetted killings of the journalists by Israel in the ongoing conflict in Gaza.
In a signed press statement by the PCI chief Gautam Lahiri, secretary general Neeraj Singh Thakur, president of IWPC Sujata Raghwan and general secretary Aditi Bahl it is said that the latest case in point is the senseless bombing of the NASSER HOSPITAL in which at least five journalists were brutally killed.
Open sources of the information indicates that since the start of the current conflict in Gaza perpetrated by the October 7 2023 senseless attacks by the Hamas and Israel defence forces about 240 journalists have been killed till now which is highly condemnable said the statement issued by the PCI and IWPC.
The statement adds that the targetted killing of the journalists in such a large number by IDF in this conflict is a grave violation of the several international conventions including Rule 34 of the international Committee of the Red Cross under which the journalists are treated as the civilians.
The impunity with which the IDF has carried out these targetted killings of the journalists on duty by deliberately and wrongly branding them as combatants must be condemned on strongest possible words and punished accordingly said the statement.
Terming these Journalists’ brutal killing as devastating assault on the press that has lost scores of lives , the PCI and IWPC statement said that it is unambiguous that by brutally killing journalists Israel does not want the world to see the brutality and grave systematic human rights violations that it has unleashed on the civilians of Gaza for close to two years.
While endorsing the demand of multiple press clubs like FCC of South Asia, Berlin Press Club, Overseas Press Club of America, Press Club Concordia, and Press Club Polska for setting up an international tribunal to impartially and justifiably investigate the gross violations of several global conventions that protect journalists in wars the PCI and IWPC demanded that Israel must be held accountable for killing the journalists, forthwith.
