Press Release
Embassy of the State of Palestine
Harare – Dr Tamer Almassri, Ambassador of the State of Palestine to the Republic of Zimbabwe, condemned in the strongest terms the assassination of Palestinian journalists Anas Al-Sharif and Mohammed Qurayqa, along with their colleagues, by Israeli occupation forces. He described these deliberate killings as part of a broader strategy to silence truth-tellers, erase evidence of atrocities, and prepare for ethnic cleansing in Gaza through mass displacement and confinement of its population.
“Targeting journalists is a war crime under international law,” Dr Almassri stated. “It recalls the darkest pages of the 20th century, when totalitarian regimes, including Nazi Germany, sought to destroy the witnesses to their crimes before committing large-scale atrocities. Israel is following that same path—driven by racial hatred, armed with unrestrained military power, and acting with utter disregard for the Geneva Conventions and the Rome Statute.”
Dr Almassri warned that Israel’s actions have stripped it of any remaining moral or legal legitimacy and that its war crimes will not go unanswered. “The world will not forgive, history will not forget, and justice will not be denied. Israel will pay the price for its crimes, just as other regimes that thought themselves above the law ultimately did.”
The Ambassador called on the international community to take urgent action to stop Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza, hold its leaders accountable before the International Criminal Court, and protect the Palestinian people from further atrocities.