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Abandoned by Western peers, Palestinian journalists remain committed to reporting on the genocide by Samaa Khullar

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One day, this genocide will end, and there will be halls in universities all across the world dedicated to our martyrs. There will be journalism scholarships at the most prestigious universities in honor of the reporters who lost their lives. There will be awards named after those who were targeted and killed for their work. However, I don’t know if any of these journalists would want to be honored in this way. More than anything, I’m sure they simply would have wanted to live to see their children grow up. To see their homes rebuilt and their land liberated. Post-mortem recognition—no matter how beautiful the vigil or plaque—falls flat when we could have stopped the killing in the first place. 

“We, as Palestinian journalists, are not waiting for or expecting anything from the world. No praise or honor or anything,” Al-Batta said. “We are a reflection of people’s needs and their pains. And this is the ultimate goal of journalism.”

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The Martyr Anas al-Sharif: A son of al-Majdal and the voice of Gaza of The New York War Crimes

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Born in 1996, al-Sharif spent more than half his life under brutal Zionist siege. He was four years old when the Second Intifada began, 12 during Operation Cast Lead, 18 at the onset of the 2014 war, and 20 on the first day of the Great March of Return in 2018. At 28 he was buried, his body returned to the land he died protecting. Over the last two years, people of conscience around the world recognized his courageous, fearless, and unrelenting coverage of the genocide in Gaza. Despite the constant threats to his life and person, his sign-off remained the same, a defiant promise: “The coverage continues.”

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Guilty by Affiliation by Mohammed El-Kurd

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The Israeli murder of heroic Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif was bookended by accusations that he was part of Hamas. For many of our allies, the instinct is to prove his innocence by proving him “unaffiliated.” The following text, an excerpt from a previously published work, is a commentary on that impulse.

… Some months into the ongoing genocide in Gaza, which is “the deadliest conflict for journalists in recent history,” the Israeli occupation forces openly considered journalists employed by media organizations associated with or run by Hamas “to be legitimate military targets.” A senior spokesperson for the IOF went as far as telling reporters that “there was ‘no difference’ between working for [Al-Aqsa TV] and belonging to Hamas’s armed wing.” This statement brings to mind another comment by a different military spokesman, who said the late Shireen Abu Akleh was “armed with [her] camera.” It also brings to mind a Jewish Insider headline that reads, “One-Third of Journalists Killed in Gaza Were Affiliated with Terrorist Groups.” A headline where journalists justify killing journalists.

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The Extermination of Gaza City Must Not Be Televised: A Conversation with Mohammad Alsaafin by Séamus Malekafzali

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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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The Israeli Assassination of Journalist Anas al-Sharif and Five Colleagues in Gaza City by Abdel Qader Sabbah and Sharif Abdel Kouddous

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GAZA CITY—The prominent Palestinian journalist Anas al-Sharif was buried in Gaza City on Monday, a broken slab of rock used as a headstone, one day after his assassination by the Israeli military. Five other journalists —four from Al Jazeera, Mohammed Qraiqeh, Ibrahim Zaher, Moamen Aliwa, and Mohammed Noufal, and one from media outlet Sahat, Mohammed Al-Khalidi—were killed alongside him and also laid to rest.

All six were killed on Sunday night in an Israeli airstrike on their media tent outside Al-Shifa hospital in what the Israeli military proudly proclaimed was an assassination targeting al-Sharif.

… Barely an hour before he was killed, al-Sharif warned of the impending Israeli invasion. “If this madness does not end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased—and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop,” he wrote. “Silence is complicity.”

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Palestinians Are Collapsing in Gaza’s Streets From Israeli-Imposed Starvation Campaign by Abdel Qader Sabbah and Sharif Abdel Kouddous

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GAZA CITY—Israel’s war of extermination in Gaza continues to plunge to new depths of horror. Starving Palestinians have begun to collapse in the streets and die of hunger as a result of the siege. Those who try to get food are gunned down in ever deadlier aid massacres. The Israeli military issues frequent mass expulsion orders and further expands its ground operations, slicing up the enclave and forcibly displacing Palestinians into more concentrated zones. All the while, the relentless aerial assault and ground attacks persist.

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Marked for Assassination: Gaza Journalists on Israeli Hit List Refuse to Stop Reporting by Sharif Abdel Kouddous

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“eliminated” Shabat, claiming they had “exposed” his role within Hamas six months earlier, and the statement concluded with the haunting words: “Don’t let the press vest confuse you, Hossam was a terrorist.”

The Israeli military was referring to its outrageous accusation, in October 2024, that Shabat and five other journalists—all of whom work for Al Jazeera—were fighters in Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. The statement also said that most of them were working in northern Gaza: an area where only a handful of journalists had remained, and where Israel had launched a concentrated extermination campaign earlier that month. At the time, Shabat and his colleagues, those who remained in the north, were on the ground, providing constant coverage to document Israeli atrocities.

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“Until our last breath”: Journalist Anas al-Sharif on Documenting Israel’s Genocide in Gaza Every Day for 11 Straight Months by Sharif Abdel Kouddous

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  2. “Anas al-Sharif has become one of the most recognizable faces on television in the Arab world. For the past 11 months, the 27-year-old Al Jazeera correspondent has been reporting from the front lines of Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza—now the deadliest place for journalists in modern history. By some counts, over 160 journalists have been killed in Gaza since October—a rate of one journalist killed every other day for nearly a year. Al-Sharif has personally endured threats against his life, and his home was targeted in an Israeli attack, killing his father.
  4. Al-Sharif is one of the few reporters who have remained in northern Gaza since October 7—an area from which, just a few days into the war, the Israeli government ordered 1.1 million people to evacuate and which has been the most heavily bombarded by Israel. One journalist told Drop Site News that there are only around 30 working journalists left in northern Gaza today.
  6. … “I was threatened by the Israeli occupation army and told I needed to stop reporting from northern Gaza and go to the south. But I refused their order, and I didn’t stop my coverage for one moment despite the threats, despite the bombing, despite the siege. Because I didn’t stop and because of my continuous coverage, the Israeli occupation targeted my home, and the home of my family that led to my father being martyred, may God have mercy on him. The circumstances were cruel and difficult and painful for me, and painful for all of us, but this only made me more determined to continue reporting.
  8. … I want to say in this recording that our circumstances are still very cruel and hard. Me and my colleagues have lived through the atmosphere of famine that hit the north of Gaza. Sometimes me and my colleagues go for days without finding a single meal… And yet the suffering is much greater, the suffering is difficult and tragic for us and our people. Yet despite this suffering, we are committed, all of us journalists, to continue on this path to continue reporting to the world.”

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