Al Jazeera rejects Netanyahu’s attack on journalists in UN speech
Israeli PM's criticism of Al Jazeera during UNGA address threatens safety of journalists, the media network says.
Al Jazeera has rejected Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s attack against the network during a speech at the United Nations General Assembly.
In a statement on Friday, Al Jazeera Media Network said it “categorically rejects” Netanyahu’s remarks, regarding them as the latest example of Israel’s “sustained campaign against Al Jazeera and its journalists”.
In his address at the UNGA on Thursday, where he attacked critics of Israel’s genocide in Gaza and pogroms in the occupied West Bank, Netanyahu singled out Al Jazeera. He called the network one of the world’s “toxic media outlets” that intends to “brainwash young minds to hate Israel”.
More than 270 journalists have been killed in Gaza during Israel’s genocidal onslaught. At least 12 of the victims had been reporting for Al Jazeera.