Three Palestinian journalists were killed on Tuesday when Israeli bombs landed on their cars, according to a Gaza health official and the head of the Hamas-run Al Aqsa TV.
Israel acknowledged targeting the men, who were in a car with press markings, claiming they had ties to militants.
Also on Tuesday, an Israeli airstrike hit a building housing the office of the French news agency Agence France Presse.
Israel has previous targeted buildings with journalists in them, justifying the strikes by claiming Hamas targets resided in the same building.The airstrikes on the AFP building targeted two floors up from their offices and no one was injured.
Earlier in the week, Israel was caught deliberately targeting other Palestinian journalists, despite international laws prohibiting such action.
Lt. Col. Avital Leibovich, an Israeli military spokeswoman, said a preliminary investigation showed all three of those killed in the airstrike were linked to terrorism, but refused to elaborate.
Al Aqsa TV station head Mohammed Thouraya denied any such links. “Our crew were fighters, but they were not fighting with weapons,” he said. “They were fighting with their cameras. They were on the battlefield to defend the people by filming the awful crimes (of the Israeli offensive) and broadcasting them to the world.”
Thanks to the fact that much of the western media deliberately avoids exposing Israeli criminality, probably for fear of being accused of anti-Semitism, much of the brutal ugliness of the Jewish state remains unknown to millions of Europeans and North Americans.
This is the reason that many people in the west are still buying the big, obscene lie that Israel is a western democracy which upholds basic human rights and civil liberties.
There is no limit to the amount of Crimes Against Humanity the chosen will commit.
Dead men have a hard time defending themselves but it would seem that both Israel and the US operate on the same principle: GUILTY until proven otherwise and even if you're innocent then it sucks to be you!
Dead men tell no tales.
USA and EU bombardment in Yugoslavia did the same thing, so as in Iraq, they blamed it either to wrong map or that they shouldn't be there…, here in israel everything is blamed.., as if entire Arab nationals were terrorists or related to HAMAS yet Israel along with the Swedish kings are the angels sent from heaven to safeguard the earth. They don't do anything wrong, is just that one is said to be part of the new european mafia along with their Neo Liberal fascism.., the other is older mafia with a background in apartheids militarized regime. There is no language in this world that would put som senses to present Israeli government, the only language that they will understand is for the world to boycott Israel…
Sorry America, But F*ck you, your politicians and your people. This would not happen without you.
Hitler didn't kill any journalists, did he?
all isrealies are linked to murder from the IDF and are fair game. same thinking