Media access to the Gaza Strip | Ottawa chooses not to sign a multinational declaration

(Ottawa) Canada has made the rare decision not to sign a multinational declaration requiring that Israel ceases to ban the entry of foreign journalists into the Gaza Strip. Moreover, that local journalists are protected in the Palestinian territories. Moreover,

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Ottawa co -founded the coalition for media freedom in 2020. Similarly, has signed more than 65 declarations on issues ranging from legislation in Georgia and arrests to Venezuela, sanctions against journalists in media access gaza strip | Burkina Faso and the detention of the journalist of the Wall Street Journal Evan Gershkovich by Russia. Meanwhile,

But Ottawa is not one of the 27 countries that called on Israel on Thursday to allow access to “independent foreign media” to the Gaza Strip. Nevertheless, to protect journalists in Israel and in the Palestinian territories. In addition,

Among the signatories are Australia, France, Japan, Sierra Leone and the United Kingdom. However,

Global Affairs Canada did not immediately respond when they were asked why they did not appear in today’s letter. In addition,

The only time Canada did not sign a multinational coalition declaration was during the 2021 electoral campaign. For example,

Among the other declarations of the coalition signed by media access gaza strip | Canada. there is a declaration of December 2023 expressing concern in the face of death in Gaza, and a 2022 declaration calling for the responsibility for the assassination by Israel of the American-Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in the West Bank.

This declaration follows the conviction by Canada. other countries of Israel for the deliberate assassination of six journalists earlier this month, including the journalist of Al Jazeera, Anas Al-Sharif.

Ottawa rejected the allegations of Israel according to which the eminent journalist of the chain. Anas Al-Sharif, directed a cell in Hamas, and the defenders of the press said that an Israeli “defamation campaign” had intensified when Mr. Al-Sharif cried as a testifying to the famine that watches the population of Gaza.

Israel prohibits the entry into Gaza to foreign journalists who media access gaza strip | are not taken care of by the Israeli army. a practice that the Committee for the Protection of Journalists describes as unprecedented in modern times.

Experts said that this conflict was, from recent memory, the deadliest for journalists. At least 192 journalists have been killed since the start of the Israeli war in Gaza.

Al Jazeera. partly funded by the Qatari government, is one of the few television channels to deploy a large team of reporters in the besieged Gaza Strip, where it shows the daily life of the Palestinians in the midst of air strikes, hunger and the rubble of destroyed districts.

Israel prevents Al Jazeera’s broadcasting in the country. and soldiers searched the chain’s offices in the busy West Bank last year.

Last week. media access gaza strip | the Canadian Association of Journalists joined international groups like Reporters Without Borders to condemn the “targeted assassinations of journalists in Gaza” by Israel and call Israel to protect journalists who cover the war.

“These acts constitute blatant violations of humanitarian law and require independent surveys,” wrote the organization.

In a separate joint declaration published Thursday. Canada joined Australia, Japan and several European countries to urge Israel to abandon its project to build colonies which would restrict Palestinians access to Jerusalem and separate the city from the West Bank.

The Minister of Israeli Far -right Finance. Bezalel Smotrich, says that the E1 plan will make any solution to two states impossible by dividing any Palestinian state.

The declaration published Thursday notes that this initiative “may compromise security. media access gaza strip | further fuel violence and instability, keeping us even more from peace”.