The United Nations Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression, Irene Khan, called for the protection of journalists in the Gaza Strip and ensuring their safety in the face of the violations they are subjected to, during the devastating war waged by Israel on the Strip, which led to the death of dozens of journalists and members of their families.
This came in a speech delivered during the erection of a memorial erected in Mexico, in honor of journalists who were killed during their journalistic work, during which Al Jazeera journalists who rose in the line of their work were honored.
IRENE, the UN expert in charge of defending journalists, expressed solidarity with journalists in Gaza and noted that journalism has become one of the most dangerous professions around the world.
The memorial, erected in Mexico on Thursday, on the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists, which falls on November 2 of each year, commemorates journalists killed in Mexico and elsewhere around the world in the line of their professional duty, and was organized under the slogan "Killing a journalist will not kill a story."
The memorial includes pictures of a number of Al Jazeera journalists, who have been martyred over the past years, as well as journalists who have been martyred in the ongoing Israeli war on Gaza.
Relatives of Mexican journalists who lost their lives in the line of work called for the killers of journalists to be brought to justice to be held accountable for the crimes they committed, and expressed solidarity with journalists in Gaza.
Reporters Without Borders said last Wednesday that 34 journalists have been killed since the beginning of the war between Israel and the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), and that at least 12 of them were killed while covering the war, 10 of them killed in Gaza, one in Lebanon and another in Israel.