AMMAN August 25. 2024 (Saba) - On Monday, about 60 international organizations defending the press called on European Union to suspend the partnership agreement it signed with the Zionist enemy due to violations of media freedom and targeting journalists in an "unprecedented" manner since the start of the war on the Gaza Strip, on October 7, 2023.
According to the German News Agency "DPA", the signatory organizations noted in their letter that the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has taken a series of measures since the outbreak of the war in the Gaza Strip "to limit media freedom, which has practically led to the imposition of a censorship system."
The organizations asked the European Union's Foreign Minister Josep Borrell and Trade Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis to suspend the partnership agreement, which specifically deals with trade exchanges with Israel, and to impose "targeted sanctions on those responsible" for human rights violations.
The organizations stated in their letter that "more than 100 Palestinian journalists and three Lebanese journalists were martyred in the war, making it the deadliest period" for journalism in decades.
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