Our weekly roundup of press freedom news, highlighting the latest attacks on journalists, their right to publish, and our right to know. Here’s the news for the week of March 22.
CPJ condemns Israel’s killing of 2 more Gaza journalists
The Committee to Protect Journalists denounces the killing of Palestinian reporters Hossam Shabat and Mohammed Mansour by the Israel Defense Forces and calls for an independent international investigation into whether they were deliberately targeted.
“This nightmare in Gaza has to end. The international community must act fast to ensure that journalists are kept safe and hold Israel to account for the deaths of Hossam Shabat and Mohammed Mansour, whose killings may have been targeted. Journalists are civilians and it is illegal to attack them in a war zone”, said CPJ’s Program Director Carlos Martinez de la Serna.
Journalists Hossam Shabat and Mohammad Mansour killed in Israeli attack on Gaza
The Israeli military has murdered two more Palestinian journalists in Gaza, Al Jazeera’s Hossam Shabat and Palestine Today’s Mohammad Mansour.
Al Jazeera reports that Hossam Shabat was killed in northern Gaza in what was, according to witnesses, a targeted attack on his vehicle without any prior warning.
Mohammad Mansour was was killed in Israeli army attack on Khan Younis “in his house … alongside his wife and his son”, in an attack that also came without any prior warning.