IFJ Accuses Israel Over Pattern of Targeting After Strike on
Beirut Broadcaster
IFJ Homepage, July 14, 2006
The International Federation of Journalists today condemned the
Israeli bombing of the Lebanese broadcaster Al-Manar, warning that
the attack follows a pattern of media targeting that threatens the
lives of media staff, violates international law and endorses the
use of violence to stifle dissident media.“The bombing of Al-Manar is a clear demonstration that Israel has
a policy of using violence to silence media it does not agree with,”
said IFJ General Secretary Aidan White. “This action means media can
become routine targets in every conflict. It is a strategy that
spells catastrophe for press freedom and should never be endorsed by
a government that calls itself democratic.”
The IFJ says there has been an increase in the targeting of media
since the 1999 NATO bombing in Belgrade of the Serbian broadcaster
RTS, which killed 16 people. At the time, NATO said the station was
a legitimate military target because it was a "propaganda
mouthpiece" for the regime of Slobodan Milosevic regime. But the IFJ
said there was no justification for the action under international
law and warned the strike would set a precedent for attacks on media
whenever a conflict breaks out.
These fears were confirmed in 2002 when Israel bombed the
facilities of the Palestine radio and television broadcasting
corporation in Gaza City and Ramallah, and when United States forces
attacked the offices of the television network Al-Jazeera, first in
Kabul during the war in Afghanistan and again in Baghdad during the
2003 invasion of Iraq when the network’s offices were bombed killing
the journalist Tareq Ayyoub. The IFJ says television has also been
targeted in exchanges between India and Pakistan.
According to agency reports an Israeli helicopter fired a missile
at the headquarters of Al-Manar in the Beirut suburb of Haret Hreik,
wounding seven people, including a television employee. Israeli
aircraft later attacked an Al-Manar transmission tower south of
Baalbek in eastern Lebanon, witnesses said.
Al-Manar, which is linked to Hezbollah, the political group whose
armed wing is involved in violent attacks against Israel, is a
controversial network whose broadcasts have been banned by some
countries in the West, notably France.
“The concern here is that when one side decides to take out a
media organisation because they regard its message as propaganda,
then all media are at risk,” said White. “In conflict situations,
unarmed journalists cannot be treated as combatants, irrespective of
their political affiliations.”
The IFJ represents over 500,000 journalists in more than 110
countries
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