Director of the Media Development Department at Qatar Media Corporation, Sheikh Khalid bin Abdulaziz Al Thani (left) and President of Qatar Press Center, Saad Mohammed Al Rumaihi during a discussion session on Palestine issue yesterday.
Doha, Qatar: Panellists at a session organised by Qatar Press Center (QPC) yesterday called on Arab media to intensify its efforts to hold Israel accountable for targeting innocent Palestinians, journalists and spreading fake news.
The discussion session titled “Palestine in Our Hearts” was attended by Director of the Media Development Department at Qatar Media Corporation (QMC), Sheikh Khalid bin Abdulaziz Al Thani, President of the Qatar Press Center Saad Mohammed Al Rumaihi, and a number of thinkers, journalists and media professionals.
Speakers highlighted Qatar’s firm and supportive position on the Palestinian issue. They lauded Qatar’s humanitarian and media efforts in support of the brotherly Palestinian people, aiming to stop the bloodshed.
The panellists also noted Qatari action in coordination with Arab countries and international movements to provide relief to civilians in the Gaza Strip and support them in the face of the brutal aggression they are being subjected to by the Israeli occupation forces.
The participants highlighted the crimes committed by the Israeli occupation forces against civilians and journalists and the targeting of reporters on the ground, whether in Palestine or in southern Lebanon, with the intention of intimidating and threatening.
This is with the aim of suppressing the facts reported by the Arab media, through which it reveals the humanitarian crimes and violations prohibited under international law that the occupation forces have practiced for decades.
Speakers at the session also touched on the biased role played by some in Western media in misleading international public opinion and distorting facts.
They also stressed the need to intensify work to hold Israel accountable and force it to stop its aggressive policies towards journalists, and ways to confront its publication of fake news in an attempt to cover up its crimes.
The participants reviewed the history of the tragedy and suffering of Palestinians since the emergence of the Zionist movement and the issuance of the Balfour Declaration, and the subsequent massacres committed by settlers and occupation forces against the Palestinians, and the policies of forced displacement and apartheid.
They noted that the statements issued by the Arab League and a number of Arab countries after the war on Gaza did not live up to the aspirations of the Arab peoples, amid global silence regarding the suffering of the Palestinian people due to Israeli plans for displacement and extermination, and taking the Al Aqsa flood operation as an excuse to implement its heinous plans against innocent civilians.
