Journalists on the ground in Gaza

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Of the 50 journalists on the ground in Gaza (residents) 35 have been killed.

If you haven’t already I highly recommend following them on instagram.

How would a Syrian journalist be of interest to Israel? ( Sorry for my ignorance.)

https://www.newarab.com/news/israeli-strike-kills-teen-gaza-journalist-hassan-hamad?amp

This is what remains of Hassan. A shoe box filled with his remains.

Hamad had reportedly received threatening calls and text messages from an Israeli officer days ago, stating that if he didn’t stop filming and documenting what was happing in Gaza, he and his family would be targeted.

Comment from a Spanish journalists (I’ve mentioned her before in the threads)

Another dark and sad day for the profession. Journalist Mohammad al-Tanani was killed in Gaza by an Israeli sniper and cameraman Fadi Al Wahidi was seriously injured. More than 160 journalists have been killed in this war, the deadliest for journalists since records began.

Sniper - so on purpose.

Or a mistake like idf likes to call it. Too many mistakes

The guardian

Al Jazeera has accused Israel of deliberately targeting journalists after one of its cameramen was shot and critically injured by an Israeli sniper on Wednesday while a photojournalist for another network was killed and a third also injured while covering the siege of Jabalia camp in northern Gaza.
In a statement the Qatar-based broadcaster said in a statement:
The Israeli occupation forces targeted a number of journalists working in and around Jabalia camp in the Gaza Strip this afternoon, killing one of the cameramen, and seriously injuring Al Jazeera Arabic Channel’s cameraman Fadi Al Wahidi with a bullet to his neck, causing critical injury while covering the attack on the camp …
This incident marks yet another grave violation against journalists in Gaza, where Israeli forces have been increasingly hostile toward media workers.”
The Hamas affiliated TV channel al-Aqsa said on Telegram that one of its photojournalists, Mohammad al-Tanani, had been killed in an Israeli attack in Jabalia refugee camp on Wednesday, while its journalist Tamer Labad, was injured.
Two days earlier, another Al Jazeera cameraman, Ali Al-Attar, was also critically injured in an Israeli attack on a hospital in northern Gaza.
Hossam Shabat, one of the few remaining journalists in the area, said his colleagues Al Wahidi and Labad were in critical condition. “They are in critical condition, and not much treatment is available for them here. Please pray for them and for us,” he wrote in a post on X.

Wholesale journalist killing must be a war crime but difficult to prove and the IDF will be cynically unworried, and go unchecked.

Some ongs requesting the evacuation of the injured journalists after Israel’s attacks last week
https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Open-letter-to-COGAT-.pdf

Is the Israeli Government or the IDF? They’re certainly renowned for holding enquiries into atrocities carried out by the IDF, which end up completely exonerating them - the firing of rockets at young boys playing football on a beach, killing 5 from the same family, to name just one.

Fadi Al-WahidIs status has worsen

Imagine handing over the investigation of a murder...to the murderer!

several politicians in USA requesting biden to push for media access in Gaza. I guess it’s never too late for this

https://x.com/RepMcGovern/status/1848382272426144245

Several AJ journalists have been accused by idf to belong to Hamas today. World wont see any proof about these accusations, but probably sooner or later we will read that they’ve been killed.

one of them has written a comment on twitter
https://x.com/HossamShabat/status/1849162170661052417

Thanks for sharing. There's no doubt behind the IDF's motives. There's a thread about this but In favour of believing the IDF. I'll repost this on there.

justifying their deaths. Many will believe them but many others won’t.

Pretty sure they'll say it's Hamas propaganda

Plausible deniability. Presumably even the IDF have realised it’s starting to look quite suspicious.

post from one of the journalists

https://x.com/HossamShabat/status/1849213814970974482

No proof of course. Yet there's plenty of proof of Israeli journalists being affiliated or were affiliated with the IDF. For example:

https://x.com/muhammadshehad2/status/1848029038146650319

In Lebanon.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpvz2rzm4k0o

They do not want witnesses.

I just cannot imagine the constant terror that everyone in Gaza is living under.

I was watching my dc s relax this evening after their week in school. The contrast took my breath away,

I sometimes feel like falling on my knees and weeping for them.

And there is absolutely nothing I can do.

I feel the same @EnoughIsay