ASSASINATION OF JOURNALIST – ISRAEL MUST BE PUNISHED

We condemn with the strongest term the assasination of Al Jazeera’ s journalist Shireen Abu Akleh by the israel occupation forces.

Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh is the second American this year to be killed by Israel.

Israel cannot be accepted to conduct an investigation on itself on the incident. We demand for an independent probe to get to the bottom of the murder.

The occupied territory of West Bank and Jeruselem are now an open killing field by the zionist troops. The occupation is now in the phase of an all out extermination of every Palestinians in the most brutal way.

The killing of Shireen is a signal for all journalists globally that israel – a top recipient of US military aid and Washington’s closest ally in the region , is now a US backed terrorist illegal state that has a license to kill journalists.

Shireen was doing her job with her full Press outfit as any other journalist trying to report on a ground incident. There was no clash. Just a zionist military operation to conduct a raid in Jenin.

This indeed without doubt is cold blooded murder that cannot be left unaccounted.

Israel has been executing assasinations of unarmed civilians , children and women , teenagers , journalists with impunity since day one of its occupation.

This time the open murder is a blatant crime that must be punnished in the court of law.

The murder reflects how the zionist israel occupation forces have no qualms of killing non combactants even in fake encounters to execute the killings of Palestinians on a daily basis.

This particular assasination is not a new incident. The zionist troops has conducted the executions in many occasions with impunity. It must be looked in the context of the occupation of Palestine. The occupation gives the zionist troops a free hand to shoot to kill.

There is no clash. The Jenin raid as in any other raids involves zionist troops equiped with arms to the teeth.

We emphasize that the killings are executed within an occupation , suppressing the occupied and claiming the occupiers have the right to exterminate Palestinians and to continue the occupation.

We demand the world community to impose a maximum international sanction on illegal zionist israel. It is compelling to delay no longer to bring justice and freedom to Palestine by sanctioning israel with every might possible.

Mohd Azmi Abdul Hamid
President MAPIM