IRIB World Service condemns Israeli bombing of its office in Gaza
The Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) World Service has condemned Israel’s bombing of its office in the Gaza Strip amid an ongoing conflict in Palestine, noting the move was meant to muzzle the voices of those seeking to expose Israeli crimes in Gaza.
A statement issued by the IRIB’s World Service on Wednesday said that Israel’s bombing a day earlier of a joint office in Gaza run by the Tehran-based Al-Alam and Press TV news channels revealed the “criminal identity” of Israel and the fact that terrorism is deeply rooted in the regime.
The statement warned that Israel’s targeting of media staff and journalists in Gaza, including its bombing of the office of the two Iranian news channels, is a desperate attempt to create an information vacuum in Gaza and thus to prepare the ground for committing massacre against the people of the besieged territory.
More than a thousand people have been killed and thousands more have been injured in nearly five days of Israeli airstrikes on Gaza, a besieged territory on the Mediterranean which is home to some 2.3 million people despite its relatively small land area.
The attacks started on October 7 after the Gaza-based Hamas resistance movement launched a multi-pronged operation into the Israeli-occupied territories to retaliate weeks of intensified violence against the Palestinians. The operation left more than a thousand Israelis dead.
The IRIB said in its statement that it will continue to cover the atrocities of the Zionist regime in Gaza regardless of the pressures it is facing inside the territory.
“We declare to the oppressive Zionist regime that the Al-Alam and Press TV channels and other media outlets run by this Service will continue to stick to their journalistic mandate and such … provocations would not dent our resolve to cover the realities of the realities on the ground about the rightful battle (launched) by the Palestinian fighters against the fake Israeli regime,” said the statement.
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