PARIS, Feb 22: French journalists’ rights organization Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF) has sent off a stern protest to Defence Minister Benjamin Bel-Eliezer expressing its “indignation” at the destruction by Israel of the Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation Building in Gaza, where are located the offices of the Voice of Palestine radio.

The letter goes much further than previous missives issued by RSF to Israeli authorities to protest individual acts of violence against Palestinian journalists and the broadcast facilities they use to carry out their trade.

It sees indeed the destruction of the Voice of Palestine building in Gaza, this in the wake of the blowing up of Voice of Palestine quarters in Ramallah on January 19, as part of a larger wave of elimination of any manifestation of Palestine and its right to exist.

Says the letter authored by RSF secretary-general Robert Menard: “We are protesting against the (Israeli) policy of deliberate elimination of any official Palestinian point of view on the (present) conflict.”