Information ministers of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Saturday urged the international community to take immediate measures to protect journalists assigned in the Gaza Strip from Israeli attacks.

The ministers held an extraordinary session in Türkiye’s Istanbul over the killings of almost 130 journalists in the region since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war in October last year.

At a final communiqué adopted at the end of the meeting, the ministers called on the international community to act immediately to hold Israel accountable for violating international law by targeting journalists in the Gaza Strip.

The ministers reiterated support for the Palestinian people’s legitimate struggle to liberate their occupied territory and to fulfil all their alienable rights, especially their right to self-determination and to live in their independent state, along the borders of June 1967 and Jerusalem as its capital.

They emphasized that resolving the Palestine Question on the basis of the two-state solution is the only way for durable, comprehensive, and lasting peace and security in the region, according to the document.

The OIC information ministers also condemned and warned against the disinformation campaigns run by the occupying Israeli authorities that aimed to legitimize the occupation, justify the barbaric mass atrocities and war crimes in the Gaza strip.

They, further, held the Israeli occupation responsible for the killings, arrest, and censorship of journalists as well as the murder and targeting their family members, recalling that Israel’s intentional attacks on journalists have killed over 120, with numerous others sustaining injuries or disappeared.

The meeting was hosted by the Presidency of the Republic of Türkiye’s Directorate of Communications under the theme “Disinformation Activities and Attacks on Journalists and Media Organizations of the Occupying Israeli Administration in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.”