Al Jazeera rejects Netanyahu’s attack on journalists in UN speech

Israeli PM’s criticism of Al Jazeera during UNGA address threatens safety of journalists, the media network says.

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Israeli prime minister’s criticism of Al Jazeera during UNGA address threatens safety of journalists, the media network says.

Al Jazeera staff members gather at the network’s studios in Qatar to remember their colleagues who were killed in Gaza City by an Israeli strike [File: Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters]

Al Jazeera has rejected Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s attack against the network during a speech at the United Nations General Assembly.

In a statement on Friday, Al Jazeera Media Network said it “categorically rejects” Netanyahu’s remarks, regarding them as the latest example of Israel’s “sustained campaign against Al Jazeera and its journalists”.

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In his address at the UNGA on Thursday, where he attacked critics of Israel’s genocide in Gaza and pogroms in the occupied West Bank, Netanyahu singled out Al Jazeera. He called the network one of the world’s “toxic media outlets” that intends to “brainwash young minds to hate Israel”.

Al Jazeera said Netanyahu wanted to stop the outlet from “reporting facts from the ground, documenting events, providing context and ensuring that a range of voices and perspectives are heard”.

Further rejecting Netanyahu’s verbal assault, Al Jazeera said the fact that “such rhetoric was delivered from the podium of the United Nations is a matter of particular concern, given the threat such rhetoric poses to the safety of Al Jazeera journalists working in the field”.

“This rhetoric cannot be separated from the heavy toll borne by Al Jazeera’s journalists in Gaza,” the network’s statement added.

More than 270 journalists have been killed in Gaza during Israel’s genocidal onslaught. At least 12 of the victims had been reporting for Al Jazeera.

Al Jazeera said the network “has lost a number of journalists and camera operators while they were carrying out their work. Some were subjected to campaigns of incitement and vilification before being targeted”.

Of the more than 73,000 people killed in Gaza, at least 706 are family members of journalists of Palestinian journalists, according to the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate.

Israel has repeatedly cracked down on Al Jazeera and used pressure campaigns against Qatar.

Two years ago, Israel’s cabinet voted to shut down Al Jazeera in the country, immediately ordering the closure of its offices and a ban on the network’s broadcasts. This came after Israel’s Knesset passed a law allowing the government to temporarily close down foreign media outlets it deemed a “threat to security”.

“These measures do not target Al Jazeera alone; they also undermine the right of every person to access truthful information and independent journalistic coverage,” Al Jazeera said on Friday.

It added that “the role of journalism is to provide the world with facts and context, while respecting the right and ability of individuals to assess sources and form their own opinions.”

半岛电视台称，以色列总理在联合国大会上对半岛电视台的批评威胁到记者的安全。

半岛电视台员工聚集在卡塔尔的电视台演播室，悼念在加沙城被以色列空袭炸死的同事。[图片：Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/路透社]

半岛电视台驳斥了以色列总理本雅明·内塔尼亚胡在联合国大会上发表讲话时对该电视台的攻击。

半岛电视台周五发表声明称，该电视台“断然拒绝”内塔尼亚胡的言论，并认为这是以色列“持续打压半岛电视台及其记者”的最新例证。

列表 1/3：本杰明·内塔尼亚胡在联合国演讲中抨击以色列的敌人和盟友

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内塔尼亚胡周四在联合国大会上发表讲话，抨击那些批评以色列在加沙实施种族灭绝和在被占领的西岸地区进行大屠杀的人，并特别点名批评了半岛电视台。他称该电视台是世界上“有毒的媒体”之一，意图“洗脑年轻人，让他们仇恨以色列”。

半岛电视台表示，内塔尼亚胡希望阻止该媒体“报道实地事实、记录事件、提供背景信息，并确保各种声音和观点都能被听到”。

半岛电视台进一步驳斥了内塔尼亚胡的言语攻击，并表示“鉴于这种言论对在联合国讲台上工作的半岛电视台记者的安全构成威胁，这种言论的发表尤其令人担忧”。

“这种言论与半岛电视台记者在加沙遭受的沉重代价密不可分，”该电视台的声明补充道。

在以色列对加沙地带发动的种族灭绝式袭击中，已有超过270名记者遇害。其中至少12名遇难者是半岛电视台的记者。