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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This should not be the role of the press.
Okay, I’ll probe:
1. Did you have offices in a building that housed Hamas?
If yes, get the F out and don’t whine when it’s leveled.
Article from 2017 about AP and their propaganda issues.
What the AP’s Collaboration With the Nazis Should Teach Us About Reporting the News
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/ap-collaboration-nazis-reporting-news
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I read the Israeli’s showed Biden smoking guns evidence before the attack.
“AP’s top editor calls for probe into Israeli airstrike”
This clown probably wouldn’t know what was going on over there even if Hamas shot a missile uo his a$$.
He will get his probe in the shape of a bomb.
According to the United Nations, a war crime is a serious breach of international law committed against civilians or “enemy combatants” during an international or domestic armed conflict. A war crime occurs when superfluous injury or unnecessary suffering is inflicted upon an enemy.
Israel and the AP are not at war. They were given ample time to clear the building and no one was harmed. There was no war crime. Just the AP caught housing terrorists and being used as shields for them with AP consent.
They got caught with their hands in the cookie jar.
wy69
The public deserves to know the facts.
They do Israel was fired on first case closed.
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