Posted on 05/17/2021 3:37:20 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON - The Associated Press’ top editor is calling for an independent investigation into the Israeli airstrike that targeted and destroyed a Gaza City building housing the AP, broadcaster Al-Jazeera and other media, saying the public deserves to know the facts.
Separately, media watchdog Reporters Without Borders asked the International Criminal Court to investigate Israel’s bombing of a building housing the media organizations as a possible war crime.
Sally Buzbee, AP’s executive editor, said Sunday that the Israeli government has yet to provide clear evidence supporting its attack, which leveled the 12-story al-Jalaa tower.
Buzbee said the AP has had offices in al-Jalaa tower for 15 years and never was informed or had any indication that Hamas might be in the building. She said the facts must be laid out.
“We are in a conflict situation,” Buzbee said. “We do not take sides in that conflict. We heard Israelis say they have evidence; we don’t know what that evidence is.”
The Paris-based Reporters Without Borders, known by its French acronym RSF, said in a letter to the court’s chief prosecutor that the offices of 23 international and local media organizations have been destroyed over the past six days.
RSF said it had strong reason to believe that the Israeli military’s “intentional targeting of media organizations and intentional destruction of their equipment” could violate one of the court’s statutes. It said the attacks serve “to reduce, if not neutralize, the media’s capacity to inform the public.”
RSF asked the international court, based in the Dutch city of The Hague, to include the recent attacks in a war crimes probe opened in March into Israel’s practices in Palestinian territories.
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We were housing Hamas and Israel ruined our party.
They should have another airstrike on the AP Top Editor’s headquarters.
You people were THERE with Ham-@$$. The Israelis bombed it. You deserved it. And I am glad.
That is all I need to know.
Hour warning and the idiot wants a probe.....lmaogtfo
No top editor, YOU need a "probe"!
Why, the airstrike hit the target?
Let’s probe the AP/terrorist link...
Way better use of time and money!
“..that the Israeli government has yet to provide clear evidence supporting its attack,..”]
Oh sure, they are going to give you all their intel and sacrifice their sources lives and dry up ongoing info. FU.
That was awesome. Next do CNN
You sleep with dogs you get fleas!
LOL! What goes round comes around.
Typical liberal, needs a committee to explain the effects of explosives and gravity on tall buildings.
The probe went into the building.
IDF destruction of AP offices in Gaza was mostly peaceful, experts say. ✔️
APStylebook
Focusing on rioting and property destruction rather than underlying grievance has been used in the past to stigmatize broad swaths of people protesting against lynching, police brutality or for racial justice, going back to the urban uprisings of the 1960s.
A “probe” by who?
I demand a serious probe into the deep and serious collaboration between the AP and Hamas terrorists going back decades.
The Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda today criticized the Allied bombing of Berlin, saying that the safety and security of independent journalists is a paramount responsibility
Does the IDF know where the Twitter and Facebook headquarters are?
Once again, bert calls for investigation and condemnation of the American enemy called the Associated Press
Geneva and Hague Conventions allow attacks on Propaganda facilities.
Let’s probe into why AP was allowing Hamas to use them as a propaganda tool
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