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You Only Target Journalists When Your Enemy Is The Truth
3 months ago
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/8/11/al_jazeera
Just a few hours after Netanyahu saying that they'd let some journalists into Gaza, Israel Targeted and assassinated six journalists in their press tent in the courtyard of Al-Shifa hospital with a drone fired rocket. Five of them were from Al Jazeera. They were specifically targeting Anas al-Sharif, who they claimed without proof was a member of Hamas. The strike also killed Mohammed Qreiqeh, Ibrahim Zaher, Moamen Aliwa and Mohammed Noufal, as well as freelance reporter Mohammed al-Khaldi.
Israel took the rare step of accepting responsibility for the assassinations, but ended up claiming that al-Sharif works for Hamas, which is typical of their usual lies and smear campaigns. At least 238 Journalists have been killed in this war so far. At least 26-30 of them were specifically targeted.
Al-Sharif left a last message to be released if he was killed:
https://www.theguardian.com/comment.....aeli-airstrike
I have no doubt that if Israel lets press into Gaza that it will be under their usual conditions of being embedded with or ushered by the IOF and having to be approved by IOF censors. That's not journalism, it's propaganda.
*Edit of 8/12:
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/8.....alist_killings
Israel has released some documents and photos that supposedly prove al-Sharif was working on behalf of Hamas.
They're certainly not above faking documents or photos or distorting the meaning of photos. I still call BS. There is no independent confirmation of their veracity.
Just a few hours after Netanyahu saying that they'd let some journalists into Gaza, Israel Targeted and assassinated six journalists in their press tent in the courtyard of Al-Shifa hospital with a drone fired rocket. Five of them were from Al Jazeera. They were specifically targeting Anas al-Sharif, who they claimed without proof was a member of Hamas. The strike also killed Mohammed Qreiqeh, Ibrahim Zaher, Moamen Aliwa and Mohammed Noufal, as well as freelance reporter Mohammed al-Khaldi.
Israel took the rare step of accepting responsibility for the assassinations, but ended up claiming that al-Sharif works for Hamas, which is typical of their usual lies and smear campaigns. At least 238 Journalists have been killed in this war so far. At least 26-30 of them were specifically targeted.
Al-Sharif left a last message to be released if he was killed:
https://www.theguardian.com/comment.....aeli-airstrike
I have no doubt that if Israel lets press into Gaza that it will be under their usual conditions of being embedded with or ushered by the IOF and having to be approved by IOF censors. That's not journalism, it's propaganda.
*Edit of 8/12:
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/8.....alist_killings
Israel has released some documents and photos that supposedly prove al-Sharif was working on behalf of Hamas.
They're certainly not above faking documents or photos or distorting the meaning of photos. I still call BS. There is no independent confirmation of their veracity.
My respect to all the journalists that have the courage to delve in such dark cases, risking everything basically..
The people of Gaza will never be kept down. No one can kill the Palestinian soul.
The war reporters – not the military PR camera crew, but real journalists –
are incredibly brave people who continue to do their job
in the age where a positive coverage of a military action
is almost as important as the nominal goals of that action,
making the "enemy" journalists priority targets,
all UN conventions be damned.
And al-Sharif had had several specific threats made against him.
An fantastically strong-willed and dedicated man,
and it's sickening to see what rewards await
such heroes in Palestine while it's ravaged by Israel.
Branding someone a terrorist used to be the go-to excuse
for the U.S. forces for collateral casualties and assassinations
during the war in Iraq, and the IDF are faithfully recreating the same principle.
The methods of state oppression all come from the same book.
And fucking Bibi is STILL saying that no one is starving in Gaza.
that was true or humane. Like you wrote, it's a rare anomaly
that the Israeli officials even bothered to acknowledge
their targeting of those al Jazeera journalists –
probably because they wanted to send
the message of intimidation loud and clear.
Only Israeli pre-approved humanitarian aid and news coverage past this point.
I'm afraid that the GHF facility is a glimpse of Israel's future plan for Gaza:
just a jungle of razor-wired walls and checkpoints where everyone
needs to have five permission slips to cross the street,
and ten more to get a bag of grain for the week,
where the extrajudicial abductions and killings,
not to mention forced relocations,
are the expected norm, and no foreign
reporters or activists are allowed.
I hope they fail, but that seems to be the direction.
with violence and starvation, yes. The pretense of mercy and charity turned into the vilest cruelty.