TURKISH PM BULENT ARINC CALLS ON MEDIA TO CONDEMN ISRAELI ATTACKS

Ankara, 9 Shawwal 1435/5 August 2014 (MINA) – Israeli occupation regime warplanes struck Anadolu Agency’s Gaza office twice despite the fact that the offices’ coordinates have been given to Israeli regime officials, Turkey’s Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc said on Monday in Ankara.

Israeli occupation regime planes hit the building housing the Anadolu Agency office in the western Gaza City early Sunday, Anadolu Agency quoted by Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA) as reporting.

Arinc voiced concern over reports that the agency’s office in Gaza was being deliberately targeted by Israel occupation regime, and said one of the reporters was severely injured.

“Israeli occupation regime, despite being aware of all these rules, attacked the building containing Anadolu Agency’s Gaza office,” he said.

During a meeting with state media institutions’ heads, including the Anadolu Agency, which Arinc oversees, he underlined the attack should be condemned by all media organizations.

“The world media’s insensitivity of the attack is shameful,” he said.

Israeli occupation regime has been pounding the blockaded Gaza Strip – home to 1.8 million people – since July 7.

At least 1,837 Palestinians, mostly civilians, have been killed and 9,450 wounded in unrelenting Israeli attacks since then.

The Israeli occupation regime army on Sunday confirmed that 64 troops had been killed and 400 others injured in the ongoing Gaza military operation.

Gaza-based resistance factions, meanwhile, have continued to fire rockets at Israeli cities, killing three civilians.

The offensive – codenamed “Operation Protective Edge,” is the self-proclaimed Jewish state’s third major offensive against the densely-populate Gaza Strip within the last six years. (T/P09/E01)

Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA)