Almasirah:Yemeni Journalists Union Condemns Israeli Airstrike on Lebanese Al-Sirat Channel, Calls for International Action

Yemeni Journalists Union Condemns Israeli Airstrike on Lebanese Al-Sirat Channel, Calls for International Action

News - Yemen: The Yemeni Union of Journalists condemned the Israeli enemy's targeting of the building of Al-Sirat, a religious and cultural channel in Lebanon, through a direct airstrike.

In a statement released on Tuesday, the union emphasized that the systematic targeting of civilian areas and facilities, including media institutions, is a war crime and a violation of all international conventions and laws. These laws guarantee freedom of opinion and expression, and protect journalists and media institutions during conflicts and wars. Targeting them is considered a war crime that does not expire over time.

The statement called on all international organizations concerned with freedom of opinion, expression, and human rights, as well as legal experts, to condemn the crime against Al-Sirat channel and denounce all the inhumane crimes committed by the Israeli enemy against civilians in Palestine and Lebanon.

It urged these organizations to pressure the Security Council and the Human Rights Council to list Israel as a perpetrator of war crimes and to prosecute it in international courts according to international conventions and laws.

The union also called on all Arab and international media institutions, press organizations, and free human rights institutions to expose the crimes and violations committed by the Israeli enemy against the media, journalists, and civilians in Palestine and Lebanon.

The Israeli regime is committing “domicide” in Lebanon by indiscriminately targeting civilian buildings, says the United Nations rapporteur on the right to adequate housing.

Israeli regime claimed to target the so-called “headquarters” and “command centers” of the Hezbollah resistance movement, but the movement rejected the claim as untrue.

Lebanese commentators also dismissed the Israeli claim saying there is no such thing as Hezbollah headquarters or command centers in the southern suburbs of Beirut.

The indiscriminate attacks on the suburb of Dahiyeh followed indiscriminate bombings in southern Lebanon that led to the displacement of tens of thousands of people.

Before that, dozens of people were killed and thousands of others injured in device detonations across Lebanon, engineered by the Israeli regime by rigging pagers and walkie-talkies with explosives.

Hezbollah has vowed to continue its military operations against the Israeli regime until the genocidal war against Palestinians in Gaza, which has claimed nearly 41,600 lives so far, does not stop.

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