In every corner of Palestine and Lebanon, innocent blood flows under the weight of the “Israeli“ war machine, the tragedy of people who suffer in the face of occupation continues. Meanwhile, some go so far to embellish the image of the executioner and justify his crimes.

Today, normalization reappears through a cursed gateway, a move that carries with it a betrayal of the blood of the martyrs and a disregard for the ongoing massacres and violations that target children, women, and all those who breathe the air of Palestine and Lebanon.

The issue of normalization is no longer just a political or diplomatic matter; it has become a moral test that exposes those who seek to reach the enemy’s strongholds. Meanwhile, Palestinian and Lebanese journalists continue to offer their lives as the price for free speech, shedding their blood, while some self-proclaimed journalists rush to fall into the lap of the enemy, rather than being the voice of truth and justice.

In this context, a Moroccan journalistic delegation arrived in occupied Palestine aboard an “Israeli” airline on Monday, November 4, 2024, for an official visit that will last several days, organized by the “Israeli” liaison office in Morocco. The delegation was welcomed by Gilad Shimon, the Director-General of the Israeli Ministry of Regional Cooperation, who hosted a special dinner in their honor.

This visit sparked a storm of anger and rejection in Morocco and across the Arab world, after news of the delegation’s visit was leaked. The Moroccan coalition “Moroccan Journalists for Palestine and Against Normalization” condemned the visit, considering it a dangerous deviation from human values and a clear abandonment of the noble principles that should guide the journalism profession, principles that should defend justice and rights.

In a statement issued on Tuesday, November 5, 2024, the coalition said: “These journalists cannot claim to represent the Moroccan people or Moroccan journalists, nor can they claim to be heirs to the national struggle of symbols who resisted colonialism. Their position is nothing but a betrayal of the Moroccan martyrs who fought in Sinai and the Golan.”

The Palestinian Journalists Forum also condemned the visit, considering it a betrayal of the blood of the martyr journalists who were targeted by the occupation during more than a year of genocide in the Gaza Strip.

In a statement, the Forum stated: “We look with great anger at the visit of the Moroccan journalistic delegation to the “Israeli“ entity, which continues its genocidal crimes against Palestinian civilians and journalists for over a year.”

The Forum further said: “This visit is a blatant disregard for the declared positions of the Arab Journalists Union and the Arab media unions that reject normalization.”

In this context, the Global Campaign to Return to Palestine has called for confronting media bias and standing against injustice by taking action by international activists to correct the media narrative and counter the distorted portrayal of the Palestinian cause in Western and some Arab media outlets.

The campaign emphasized the importance of raising global media awareness and pressuring media outlets to present a neutral and objective narrative that highlights the reality and brutality of the ongoing Zionist aggression against Gaza and Lebanon.

This normalization with the occupation is not just a diplomatic step or a political stance; it is an attempt to cover up the savagers of the aggression and justify its crimes, while the souls of martyrs scatter and journalists’ blood is spilled on the land of Palestine and Lebanon.

The question remains: what do those who shake hands with the executioner gain? How can some walk over the bodies of children, abandon their humanity, and normalize relations with their killers?