Iran Condemns Killing of Al Jazeera Journalists in Gaza
WANA (Aug 11) – Iran’s Foreign Ministry has issued a strong condemnation over the killing of the entire Al Jazeera media team in Gaza City, calling for an end to what it described as global inaction in the face of genocide and atrocities in the besieged enclave.
In a post on X, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei denounced the bombing of the journalists’ tent, which resulted in the death of all Al Jazeera reporters and crew members stationed there. “Press cards and journalist IDs offer no protection against war criminals and perpetrators of genocide who do not want the world to know about their atrocities,” Baghaei wrote.
According to him, five more journalists — the entire Gaza-based Al Jazeera team — were deliberately targeted in the strike, at a time when Gaza’s population is being “massacred en masse, starved to death, and hunted in Israeli-American ‘food traps.’”
He stressed that condemning such an act is “the bare minimum any person with a conscience can do,” adding that the world must act to “immediately halt this brutal genocide” and prosecute those responsible. “Indifference and inaction amount to complicity in Israel’s savage crimes,” he said.
killing of the entire Al Jazeera media team in Gaza City . Social Media / WANA News Agency
Baghaei: Attacks on Journalists Are Never Justifiable
Speaking at a press conference, Baghaei reiterated that targeting journalists and media workers under any circumstances is unacceptable. “Over the past two years, whenever we have spoken about journalists, it has been in the context of condolences — because of what has happened in Gaza and the occupied Palestinian territories,” he noted.
He confirmed that “just last night, several more reporters and cameramen joined the ranks of those who have died in the pursuit of truth,” condemning the incident as “a barbaric war crime.”
“In wartime, attacks on journalists are explicitly and clearly considered war crimes,” he stressed, citing estimates that nearly 240 journalists, cameramen, and media workers have been killed during the past two years amid the ongoing conflict and what he called the “genocide in occupied Palestine.”
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Palestinian media reported early Monday that an Israeli military drone attacked a journalists’ tent in front of the main gate of the Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City, killing several reporters, including two from Al Jazeera, identified as Anas Al-Sharif and Mohammed Qariqa.
Al Jazeera added that, according to available information, an Israeli army drone targeted the journalists’ tent near Al-Shifa Hospital, where several Palestinian reporters, including Al-Sharif and Qariqa, were present.
Citing an official at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza, Al Jazeera stressed that the two Al Jazeera journalists were killed when the Israeli military shelled their tent — a stark reminder of the dangers journalists face in conflict zones.
The Gaza Government Media Office announced that the number of journalists killed by the Israeli army during what it described as a genocidal war in the Gaza Strip has now reached 237.
