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The entire Al-Jazeera team in Gaza was killed in an air strike.

Anas Al-Sharif did daily coverage on the front lines and warned that there would be a smear campaign against him. The IDF brags on Twitter they killed him and claims he ran a Hamas terrorist cell which is blatant propaganda coating of systemically killing press.

I remember seeing the director of a hospital with his team of doctors behind him begging on air to please not bomb their hospital as it was one of the only sites of refuge left. And then days later reading they were all killed.

Make no mistake, Israel's government has used the excuse of looking for terrorists to kill every Palestinian they can. This is a genocide.

Marking an entire people as a threat to your safety is what fascists do. It's what they did to the Jews and the Roma throughout all of history. It's what they are doing to trans people. It's what they're doing the the Uighars in China. It's what Israel is doing now to Palestine.

And before anyone comes at me with any claims of antisemitism, I don't have a problem with the people of Israel. Much like I do not have a problem with the people of Russia. I have a problem with the murder of civilians, and much like how Muslims were reactionarily persecuted post 9/11, Islamophobia and racism against Arabs has been weaponized to stoke the rage of people to see them not as humans, but as pests to be exterminated.

We said never again to the holocaust. I've been to Auschwitz and stood in the gas chambers. I've seen the Holocaust memorial in Berlin. I've seen the Atomic Bomb Museum in Nagasaki. These have all been deeply sobering experiences of some of the worst atrocities that mankind has committed to one another. Even if someone speaks a different language or has a different skin tone or a different religion, we're all still human. Do NOT buy into the ideal that ANY group of people should be eradicated. This fear and anger is the trap of fascists to justify their killing of innocent civilians. Grant parents, children, lovers, friends...just average people. Gone.

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Israel killed a whole crew of journalists inside a tent with an airstrike.

The usual "Hamas member" was used to justify the killing.

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Prem Thakker at Zeteo:

On Sunday, the Israeli military killed our press colleagues, Al Jazeera journalists Anas Al-Sharif and Mohammed Qreiqeh, along with camera operators Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal, and Moamen Aliwa. The journalists were killed by an Israeli airstrike late Sunday local time. One minute, they were reporting on Israel’s escalating bombardment of Gaza City. And the next minute, they became victims of it. Israeli forces bombed a tent housing the reporters near al-Shifa Hospital. The attack also reportedly killed Al-Sharif's nephew Musab Al-Sharif, who is said to have looked up to his 28-year-old uncle and wanted to follow in his footsteps as a journalist. Barely an hour before US-backed Israeli forces killed Al-Sharif, he had warned on Twitter, “If this madness doesn’t 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.” Just weeks ago, the Committee to Protect Journalists called for Al-Sharif’s protection in the face of an Israeli military smear campaign. The vile campaign included the Israeli military’s Arabic spokesperson Avichay Adraee alleging that Al-Sharif was a “terrorist,” since he cried on air while reporting on the starvation of his people in Gaza. After the attack, the Israeli military said it targeted and killed “the terrorist Anas Al-Sharif, who posed as a journalist for the Al Jazeera network,” claiming without any substantiated evidence that he “served as the head of a terrorist cell in the Hamas terrorist organisation.”

The IOF killed 5 Al Jazeera employees involved in covering the Gaza Genocide in Gaza City, including Anas Al-Sharif.

See Also:

AP, via HuffPost: Al Jazeera Says Its Correspondent Anas Al-Sharif Has Been Killed In Gaza, And Israel Confirms It

The Guardian: Anas al-Sharif, prominent Al Jazeera correspondent, among five journalists killed in Israeli airstrike on Gaza

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We have already seen the modus operandi of the Israeli army in trying to destroy evidence in Gaza. It has buried massacred civilians in mass graves with bulldozers; it has withheld bodies of Palestinian torture victims; it has dug into the sand whole crime scenes of execution; it has planted weapons in hospitals that it has ransacked; it has lied about discovering tunnels.

All of this fits neatly with Israel’s long history of burying evidence of atrocities. Since 1948, Israeli authorities have systematically erased their ethnic cleansing of Palestinians by building on top of the ruins of pillaged Palestinian villages and towns.

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Batman supports sex workers

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He wasn't the only one on the ship... 🥚🥚🥚

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Can’t wait to see how old YouTube’s AI thinks I am…

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Comedians in the '70s and cartoons in the '90s: weird how your kids can watch violence and murder on TV but the FCC wants us dead if we say the word nipple.

Internet users in 2025: you didn't warn me that there would be erotic themes in the game you just mentioned which is fucked up because I thought it was going to be a normal "morally struggle with killing people" game but now it's gone too far :-/

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ubi, universal basic income

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theres bikes around the city you can rent but you have to use an app that needs your drivers license. theres buses that drive right to your destination, but if you dont have change you need the app. you can wash your car here if you sign into the app. you can go to the bathroom here you just have to unlock it with the app that needs your location on. you can order at this restaurant if you scan the code and download the app. im losing my freaking mind

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yo…. when jet breaks in the tea shop and accuses zuko and iroh of beinh firebenders….

do you think any of the patrons looked at zukos scarred face - obviously done by a firebender - and immediately think jet was an asshole? like

jet: hes a firebender!!!!

patrons, thinking about the backstory they concocted for zuko and iroh where their home was invaded by firebenders and they barely survived with their lifes so they could come and have a peaceful life selling tea in a city the war doesnt touch:

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Professor X asks a girl, “what is your mutant power?”

Girl replies: “I can guess how many pulls to turn a ceiling fan off on the first try!”

She points up and says: “3 pulls”

Professor X stands up and pulls 3 times. After the third pull the fan turns off.

Professor X: “Yeah thats cool and all, but not really a super power…”

Girl: “Yeah I was jut kidding, I can heal paraplegics”

Professor X, still standing: “Oh my god”

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Safeword

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considering that rumble after dark is a fighting game. do the characters have unique reactions to mirror matches?

Oooh this is a fun idea... let me think: Beck P1: Wait... if I kick my own ass, does that make me weak or strong? P2: Wanna find out? P1: Bring it on.

Madison: P1: If you're me, then tell me what number I'm thinking of right now! P2: Three. P1: Damn I'm good. SH0-T0 P1: It seems redundant for a training dummy to spar with another training dummy. P2: Who are you calling a dummy? P1: *sigh* Yuseong P1: Hey! I worked hard on this human disguise! You can't just copy it! P2: What are you gonna do? Sue me? P1: My mom's from hell. She knows enough lawyers.

Gibson P1: Hrm. I don't like this. P2: The feeling's mutual. P1: Then let's get this over with quickly.

Helen: P1: I want you to hit me as hard as you can. P2: Is this what I think it is? P1: If so, we're not supposed to talk about it. Pop cap: P1: ..... P2: .... .... P1: .... Vincent P1: Hey, wanna team up? You seem like a smart fella. P2: Smart enough not to trust a liar. P1: Hey, it takes one to know one.

Locke: P1: So... Robot? Hologram? Or is this a magic thing? P2: Could be a clone, or an alien imposter. P1: The paperwork for this one's gonna be a nightmare.

Bonus... Datamined from future DLC?? Sister Leona: P1: Okay, this booking is messed up. P2: Hell of a plot twist though. P1: Save it for the Pay Per View. Xiaoshing P1: Master always said to overcome thyself. P2: Somehow I'm not sure this is what she had in mind.

[Redacted]: P1: *sigh*, What stupid life choices have led me to this? P2: Heh, don't beat yourself up over it. P1: Oh very funny.

[Redacted]: P1: Did I get the spell wrong? P2: One of us sure did. P1: Ahh fuck.

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Armor evolution charts. I TRIED to avoid repeating between the two sets but yeah good luck there. I also replaced some that never made sense to me

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Line ideas for the next gen of Digidestined. Grouped by families.