On the 70th day of the Zionist aggression on Gaza Strip, colleague Samer Abu Daqqa, cameraman of Al-Jazeera, was martyred, and colleague Wael Al-Dahdouh, correspondent of Al-Jazeera, was injured while covering the Zionist enemy’s shelling of Farhana school in Khan Yunis.
In a statement issued on Friday, the Yemeni Media Union offered condolences to the family of the martyr Abu Daqqa and all Palestinian and free media professionals, and affirmed its solidarity by standing side by side with their media colleagues in Gaza.
“We affirm that our Islamic and moral principles oblige us to stand united to confront the Zionist aggression and expose the crimes of genocide against our brothers in Palestine in general and in the Gaza Strip in particular,” the statement read.
“The Zionist enemy’s continued targeting of Palestinian media professionals confirms its persistence in committing horrific crimes and its insistence on intimidating media professionals from exercising their media and journalistic duties in the areas targeted in Gaza in order to prevent coverage of the violations and genocide committed every day since the start of the aggression on Gaza on the seventh of last October.”
This attack on media professionals is a testimony of Israel’s condemnable actions, as the number of martyrs among the media reached more than 72 media professionals, according to the statement.
The Yemeni Media Union called on all colleagues in various countries of the world, international human rights and media organizations to criminalize this attack and show solidarity with Palestinian media professionals, especially since these crimes and violations are accompanied by unprecedented international and Arab silence and international complicity led by the United States of America.
