Killing journalists is Israel's way of masking truths: Turkish official

from Daily Sabah

Intimidating and killing journalists has been Israel's fundamental strategy of covering up the truth in Gaza since Oct. 7, Türkiye's director of communications said Friday as he addressed a symposium on "Media's Struggle for Truth in the Gaza War: Violence, Disinformation, Censorship" in Istanbul.

Emphasizing the death of 120 journalists in Gaza resulting from Israeli airstrikes on the blockaded enclave launched in response to an unprecedented Hamas attack on southern Israel, Presidential Communications Director Fahrettin Altun said, "If it weren't for the efforts of these heroes, the world would not be aware of Israel's massacres and the oppression faced by the people of Gaza today."

Altun accused Western media outlets of "playing the three monkeys" in the face of Israeli violations, against which "the whole world should stand up."

"Israel commits crimes while systematically lying, concealing what's happening on the ground and portraying false events," the director said. "Israel is attempting to annihilate a city, a people for good, they are killing civilians, women and children, before the eyes of the whole world."..

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