Morocco has "strongly" condemned as "odious" the Israeli attacks on Qana, and urged the international community to put an end to the war against Lebanon, a statement of the Foreign Affairs Ministry said on Sunday.
The people of Fez, like those around the country are united in condemnation of the ongoing Israeli attacks on Lebanese targets. Now concern is growing that the media is being targetted.
![](http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/1759/1777/400/journalist.3.jpg)
As Israel is escalating its military operations in Lebanon and Palestine, killing hundreds of innocent civilians, media workers in the area have not been spared. Last week, Suleiman Chidiac, a technician working for the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation (LBC) was killed when Israeli air raid hit transmission stations used by several Lebanese television channels.
Only one day later, Layal Najib, 23, a freelance photographer for the Lebanese magazine Al-Jaras and Agence France-Presse, was killed in an Israeli missile attack.
”Najib was in a taxi trying to meet up with a convoy of villagers fleeing the Israeli bombardment of south Lebanon when she was hit by shrapnel from a missile on the road between the villages of Sadiqeen and Qana, local media reported. She died at the scene,” said the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) in its latest report about journalists killed during 2006.
These killings came after the July 13 strike by Israeli helicopters on the Al-Manar headquarters. Seven people, including one TV worker, were wounded in the attack.
Israeli attacks are also targeting media workers in Palestine. A crew working for Al Jazeera channel in Nablus was recently hit. Technician Wael Tantous was wounded. On July 8, photographer Mohammad Az Zanoun was shot by Israeli forces as he took photographs in Gaza.
Two weeks ago, Israeli police arrested Walid Al Omari, the chief of Al Jazeera's bureau in Jerusalem.
Al Omari, who was arrested two times in two days, along with his cameraman and an assistant, were questioned about footage they had taken after Hezbollah missiles hit Haifa.
The Al Jazeera crew was accused of filming sensitive security locations that can be targeted by Hezbollah.
The International federation of Journalists condemned earlier this week an Israeli army attack on a team working for the Palestinian TV, in which a cameraman was wounded.
“Israel needs to investigate all of the recent attacks on media and it must eliminate this pattern of targeting,” IFJ General Secretary Aidan White had said.
“The appalling perception is of soldiers opening fire on unarmed journalists and of intimidation of Arab journalists to keep them from covering the news in the Palestinian territories and in Lebanon.” He added.
But White's voice remains unheard as Israel's continuing attacks do not even spare unarmed civilians, including women and children.
GOOD NEWS FROM IRELANDIn one positive development,
The View From Fez has uncovered a report that says government of the Republic of Ireland will ban all American planes from taking on fuel at Shannon airfield. This has been a regular stopover for American warplanes on the way to Iraq. The move is in response to nationwide anger at the American backing of Israel and the fact that misiles are being sent from America to Israel via Ireland. Hopefully this move will do something to slow down the carnage until a ceasefire can be implemented
Tags: Morocco Fes, Maghreb news