Israel’s focus on writers is a consequence of ‘exemption’, Indian columnists caution

Around 140 senior Indian columnists have sent a joint letter to Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett in which they censured the Israeli armed force’s focusing on Al Jazeera writer Shireen Abu Akleh.

Dr. Abdel Razeq Abu Jazar, the media consultant at the Embassy of Palestine in India, said the columnists focused that focusing on Abu Akleh is a result of a “conscious climate in view of exemption”, adding that Israeli powers make writers who work autonomously take care of their reports.

The writers sent their letter to the Israeli top state leader through Israel’s Ambassador to New Delhi, Naor Gilon.

They approached Bennett to denounce the focus of Abu Akleh and to open a straightforward examination by an autonomous power to guarantee equity for herself and to stop all the more such assaults.

“Yet again we, the Indian columnists, write to communicate areas of strength for us of the homicide of Al Jazeera writer Shireen Abu Akleh, who was shot in the face while giving an account of an assault by Israeli officers from Jenin,” the writers said, adding that the terrible death affirms the powerlessness of “your administration to acknowledge free press that comes clean, despite the fact that Abu Akleh was known for her autonomous reports.”

“We are additionally astounded that in spite of worldwide judgment, the Israeli police have endeavored to stop her burial service parade and depended on viciousness as the Palestinians attempted to push ahead with her casket.”

Israel killed Al Jazeera writer Shireen Abu Akleh on 11 May while she was covering the occupation armed force’s raging of the Jenin evacuee camp. The 51-year-old was wearing a fire coat obviously showing “Press” and had a cap on however was as yet shot in the head by an Israeli expert marksman. Her associates were additionally shot at as they attempted to save her.