Séamus: Anas al-Sharif was murdered shortly before we started speaking. The war on Gaza has seen the most deaths of journalists in any conflict ever, all of them directly assassinated by Israel. But this has been the most high-profile murder, I think, of them all, him being killed alongside seemingly the entire al-Jazeera bureau. What do do you see as the intention of doing this before the IDF’s planned operation to seize Gaza City?
Mohammad: The easy answer is that they want to silence the most prominent journalists who have been covering events in Gaza City for the last two years, the ones who refused to evacuate and stayed behind even as much of the north of Gaza was depopulated, the ones who refused to stop reporting. And this obviously became extremely high profile because the previous al-Jazeera bureau chief in Gaza City, one of the most well-known journalists in the Arab world, Wael al-Dahdouh, left Gaza a couple of months into this genocide.
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