{"id":30030,"date":"2024-08-07T18:05:40","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T15:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=30030"},"modified":"2024-08-07T18:05:40","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T15:05:40","slug":"un-expert-condemns-israeli-killing-of-al-jazeera-journalist-in-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/07\/un-expert-condemns-israeli-killing-of-al-jazeera-journalist-in-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Expert Condemns Israeli Killing of Al Jazeera Journalist in Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">A United Nations expert on Tuesday condemned Israel&#8217;s killing last week of Al Jazeera journalist Ismail Al-Ghoul and cameraman Ramy El Rify in Gaza and urged that the deaths be prosecuted as a war crime.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The two men died in a July 31 airstrike by the Israeli military, which said Al-Ghoul was a Hamas operative who took part in the Oct. 7 attack against Israel.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The Israel Forces has released a document seized from Hamas computers that it said corroborates its claim.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Israel&#8217;s military said Al-Ghoul belonged to the elite Nukhba unit and was involved in recording and publicizing attacks on Israeli troops.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">According to Reuters, Al Jazeera rejected what it said were &#8220;baseless allegations&#8221; and said Al-Ghoul had worked for the network since November 2023 and his only profession was as a journalist.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The Israeli army said the Hamas documents it had seized in Gaza listed members of the organization&#8217;s military wing, and that as of 2021, Al-Ghoul had been an engineer in the Hamas Gaza Brigade.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Khan said journalists are protected as civilians under international humanitarian law and targeting them deliberately was a war crime. That status is only forfeit if they participate directly in hostilities, and Israel had not provided concrete evidence of that, she said.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;Given Israel&#8217;s failure to heed earlier calls for accountability, I urge the International Criminal Court to move swiftly to prosecute the killings of journalists in Gaza as a war crime and call on the international community to urgently consider the use of international mechanisms to investigate crimes against journalists in Gaza,&#8221; she added.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies\u00a0 A United Nations expert on Tuesday condemned Israel&#8217;s killing last week of Al Jazeera journalist Ismail Al-Ghoul and cameraman Ramy El Rify in Gaza and urged that the deaths be prosecuted as a war crime. The two men died in a July 31 airstrike by the Israeli military, which said Al-Ghoul &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30032,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30030\/revisions\/30032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}