Earlier Thursday, Israel's Supreme Court (the highest judicial authority) decided to allow the government to continue preventing foreign journalists from entering the Gaza Strip, a decision that greatly disappointed the Foreign Press Association in Israel.
The court's decision came after it considered a petition submitted by the association, demanding that Benjamin Netanyahu's government be compelled to allow journalists into the Gaza Strip.
The media office said in a statement: "We reject the decision of the so-called Israeli Supreme Court in this regard, and we consider this decision a continuation of the occupation's attempts to conceal and evade its crimes."
The decision was considered "a consecration of the policy of media blackout practiced by the occupation since the outbreak of its criminal war against our people in the Gaza Strip, with the aim of suppressing the truth and concealing its crimes against all aspects of life, including people, trees, and stones."
The media office affirmed its confidence that the foreign press, if allowed in, would "reinforce the truthful Palestinian narrative."
He added, "It will highlight to the entire world the injustice done to our people, who have suffered for two years from genocidal crimes that are shocking to humanity. At the same time, its entry will reinforce the isolation of the occupation by exposing its lies and allegations, which it attempts to fabricate to deceive the world and justify its crimes."
Since the outbreak of the Israeli war of extermination in the Gaza Strip on October 8, 2023, the Israeli authorities have imposed a ban on foreign journalists entering the Strip independently.
It allowed only a limited number of reporters to accompany its forces inside Gaza, despite the widespread destruction and tight blockade of the Strip.
The office affirmed that "preventing foreign press entry for the third year constitutes a crime against freedom of opinion and expression and violates the global public's right to knowledge."
He also considered it "further evidence that this entity is far from democracy."
He stressed that "this behavior is yet another condemnation of the occupation, which proves every day that it fears the truth and seeks to kill its witnesses among journalists and obscure its presence in the media."
The Government Media Office affirmed that the crimes the occupation is attempting to conceal have resonated throughout the world, and their details were revealed by our journalists and media outlets operating inside the Gaza Strip, who fulfilled their professional and moral duty despite the heavy toll they took during the genocide.
Over the course of the two-year genocide, Israel killed 255 Palestinian journalists, arrested four others, and injured dozens, according to the bureau's statistics.
The International Federation of Journalists, human rights organizations, and the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression called on the international community to "pressure the occupation and its supporters and take a practical stand against this humiliating occupation behavior, which violates the occupation's norms and conventions."
During the two-year, US-backed genocide, Israel killed more than 68,280 Palestinians, injured 170,375 others, and destroyed approximate90% of the civilian infrastructure in the Strip
