#100 Palestinian Journalists | Media Workers

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“Terrorist, Fascist, Illegal Occupier of Palestine 🇵🇸, Apartheid, the Bastard Child of the United States and the West, War Criminal Zionist 🐖 Isra-hell’s” attacks in Gaza, Forever Palestine 🇵🇸, have Killed at least 100 Innocent Palestinian Journalists and Media Workers. Others have been Severely Wounded, forcibly displaced or lost entire families. These journalists report on Israel's attacks, the resulting starvation and humanitarian crisis in Gaza, all while experiencing it themselves.

Now, Palestinian Journalists are calling on U.S. Reporters to Boycott the White House Correspondents' Dinner in protest of the War Criminal Genocidal Biden Administration's Actions Toward Gaza. "It is Unacceptable to Stay Silent out of fear or Professional concern while Journalists in Gaza continue to be Detained, Tortured, and Killed for doing our jobs," the Journalists wrote in a letter Calling for the Boycott.

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"The historical struggle against colonialism and imperialism ... is waged at the same time as a struggle over the historical and cultural record. One of the first targets, for example, of the Israeli Defense Forces when they entered the Lebanese capital of Beirut in the fall of 1982 was the PLO Research Center and its archives containing the documentary and cultural history of the Palestinian people. Similarly the United States police squadron which in August 1985 arrested in San Juan, Puerto Rico, eleven Puerto Rican independentistas on charges of bank robbery and violation of interstate commerce laws also entered the offices of the journal Pensamiento critico where they confiscated the journal's archival resources as well as its copier and typewriter. The struggle over the historical record is seen from all sides as no less crucial than the armed struggle."

Barbara Harlow, Resistance Literature (1987)

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Record of Genocide (Pt. 2)

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The List

Upon Children

Deaf man's son killed by Assrael

Leg of a girl Assrael blown up

A man carrying his baby that's killed by Assrael

Babies killed by Assrael

Two kids killed by Assrael

A girl had to be amputated after Assrael attacks

Assrael bombed civilians in their home

A doctor testimony on how Assrael killed a kid

Assrael killed a father's son

US doctor's testimony that assrael deliberately sniping children

A child amputated because of assrael

What Assrael did to children

Assrael killed a father's child

A dog eating a child killed by assrael

Assrael taking civilians to concentration camp and abuse women and children

Assraeli soldier kidnapped, stripped a boy naked, and abuse him

Toddler amputated because of assrael

Assrael justify detaining, torturing, and sexually abuse 12 years old children

Children that Assrael murdered

Assrael sniped 11-months old baby

Baby murdered by assrael

Multiple children injured from assrael targeted attack

Upon Palestinian in general

A doctor likely raped to death by Assraeli

Journalist spoke about the condition in Gaza

Assrael killing aid workers

Assrael airstrikes killed a journalist, killing him and severed his hand

Assrael opened fire and killed a man at a refugee checkpoint

An American citizen using tourist visa to commit war crimes in Gaza for two months

Assraeli justifying bombing civilians

Rescue worker killed by Assrael when he tried to save people

Assrael dropped bombs on UNRWA school

Assraeli soldier confessed their goal of occupation and ethnic cleansing.

Former USMC Captain and State Department Officer's testimony of assrael war crimes

UK doctor's testimony of Assrael war crimes

Assrael accused of poisoning food for civilians

An AI created to target people at home

An Assraeli drone dropped bomb on civilians home

Assrael ran over a woman alive with a tank

Assrael bombing praying site

A man holds a severed hand of a martyr that Assrael murdered

A man holds a severed leg of a martyr that Assrael murdered

Assrael replaced humanitarian aid food with C4 explosives

Assrael replaced humanitarian aids with sand and stole food from UN aid trucks

Assrael bombing university

Assrael bombing civilians tents

Assraelis assaulted a family

Three Assraelis ganging up on a man and abuse him

Assrael shooting ambulance

Mass grave from Nakba 1948 massacre uncovered under Tel Aviv

Assrael burn humanitarian aid

Assrael bombed a shop, killing multiple civilians

Assrael use quadcopter emitting baby's cry to lure civilians out and kill them

Assrael raided a hospital to steal the bodies of the people they killed

Assrael bombed residential building, killing 6 civilians

Assrael bans anaesthetic, crutches, dates, leading to people being amputated without anaesthetic.

Assrael destroying synagogue

Upon Lebanon

Assraeli soldier filming themselves blowing up a village in Lebanon

Assraeli soldiers sings while destroying an entire village in Lebanon

Assrael destroying Lebanon

BBC reveals Assrael lie about Hezbollah

Targeting residential building in Beirut again

Scottish journalist's testimony of assrael crimes in Lebanon

Assrael carpet bombing Lebanon

Assrael bombed civilians in Lebanon during a ceasefire deal

Assrael attacked a Lebanese footballer and put her in a coma

Assrael desecrates a church and mocks the Virgin Mary

Assrael violates ceasefire deal and attacked Lebanon at least 100 times

Outside of Palestine

Rabbi Shmulley's confession

Western media lying about what happened in Amsterdam

Rabbi Dovid Feldman was attacked by a zionist in New York

Zionist harassing people in praying site in Texas

Assrael official admits it was never about the hostages

Zionist making death threats and confirming of colonialization of Palestine

Assrael threatens to kill people everywhere (from November 2023)

Billionaires attack on anti-genocide protesters

Assrael attacked American ship in 1967, killing 34 and injured 174 others.

US vetoed another ceasefire, deepening their participation in genocide.

The US refuse to comply with ICC order

Assraeli soldier attacked UNICEF worker

Anti-African rally in Assrael

Christopher Bollyn comment about zionism

Assrael weaponizing Judaism for genocide

How zionism violates Judaism in every way

Testimony from the taxi driver assrael hooligans attacked

Jews and Assrael are two separate things

Assraeli Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi threatens the US

Former Assraeli Minister testimony about assrael (from 2002)

Assrael made Jews hated by the world

Jewish Rabbi burn assrael flag as protest against genocide

Nelson Mandela on assrael illegal occupation

Assrael stealing babies from Yemeni Jews since 1950s

Australian politicians pressured by US to vote against ceasefire

How US's "best ally" treat the US.

US cops assaulted unarmed peaceful protester

How bibi sees the US

Zionism is not Judaism

Assraeli using Judaism to justify murdering children

Assrael murdered three WCF workers, adding more deaths to the previous one

US-funded bombs being used to kill civilians in Palestine and Lebanon

Assraeli minister admits of wanting to illegally steal a land

This is not a complete list.

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(JTA) — Vivian Silver, a Canadian-Israeli peace activist who had been presumed kidnapped by Hamas, was declared dead after her remains were found at her home.

Her death was confirmed to JTA by multiple activists who said they were in touch with Silver’s family. Shifra Bronznick, a prominent Jewish social justice activist and lifelong friend of Silver’s, learned from Silver’s son that her remains were identified via her DNA. 

“Vivian was always persistent in the pursuit of peace and justice,” Bronznick told JTA on Monday evening. “She was a lifelong feminist, a committed activist, a fearless leader, an exceptional friend and a loving mother, wife and grandmother.”

Until Monday, Silver, 74, was assumed to be among the more than 200 people held captive by Hamas. She is now among the approximately 1,200 people murdered by the terror group in its Oct. 7 attack. Hamas terrorists killed more than 100 people at Silver’s home community, Kibbutz Be’eri, in one of the day’s worst massacres. 

She is one of several peace activists to have been killed or captured by Hamas on Oct. 7. Hayim Katsman, 32, who worked with Palestinians in the southern West Bank, was killed in his home in another community on the Gaza border. Yocheved Lifschitz, who helped ferry Palestinians from Gaza to medical care in Israel, was taken captive by Hamas and released in late October; her husband Oded, also involved in peace work, remains missing.

“A woman of infinite, deep, ongoing compassion, humanity and dedication to Arab-Jewish partnership and peace. Yes. Peace,” Anat Saragusti, an Israeli writer and feminist activist, wrote on social media in a post announcing Silver’s death. John Lyndon, the executive director of the Alliance for Middle East Peace, wrote that “she wanted to be free & at peace. Rest in power, Vivian.”

Silver’s sons, like the family members of many of those presumed hostage, lobbied extensively for her release, traveling the country and speaking to journalists around the world to call attention to her story. One son, Yonatan Zeigen, stood out for his calls for a ceasefire, an unusual position in Israel. He said he had learned from his mother to seek peace above all else.

“I would tell her, ‘Israel is dead. It’s hopeless,’ and she would say, ‘Peace could come tomorrow,’” Yonatan, a social worker in Tel Aviv told the Washington Post in a story published last week.

Chen Zeigen, her other son, is a doctoral student in archaeology at the University of Connecticut. She is also survived by four grandchildren.

On the day of the massacre, according to the Washington Post story, Silver took a call with a radio station where she pushed back against the idea that the Palestinians were “insane.” In messages with Yonatan, she expressed fear, frustration and love. “I’m with you,” he wrote to her. Her last message back to him was, “I feel you.”

Born in Winnipeg, Canada, she was the longtime director of  the Arab Jewish Center For Empowerment, Equality, and Cooperation, which organized projects joining communities in Israel, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. In 2014, after the last major war between Israel and Hamas, she helped found Women Wage Peace, which promotes peace-building actions among women from all communities and across the political spectrum.

Speaking to Forbes in 2021 for a series on women who assist the vulnerable, Silver said she remembered feeling relief after the government built bomb shelters in Kibbutz Be’eri, which had been subject to rocket fire from Gaza for more than a decade.

“In 2009, the [Israeli] government only built shelters for communities that were four kilometers from the border. The community I live in is four and a half kilometers from the border, so we didn’t have shelters then,” Silver told Forbes. “Now we do, so psychologically we feel better, and we feel safer, and in fact, we are safer, we’re a lot safer than the people in Gaza.”

At a 2018 Women Wage Peace event on the Gaza border in 2018, she said that the Israeli government needed to change its approach in order to bring peace to the area. “Show the required courage that will bring changes of policy that will bring us quiet and security,” she said then, addressing the government. “Returning to the routine is not an option.”

Appealing to women across the border, she said, “Terror does not make anything better for anyone, you too deserve quiet and peace.”

Bronznick first met Silver in the early 1970s when both were involved in organizing a national conference of Jewish women. They remained friends and, for a period of six years, took an annual trip together — the last one was to Santa Fe, New Mexico. When Silver would stay at Bronznick’s home, she would prepare an Israeli breakfast, Bronznick recalled. 

“She would be passionately advocating for peace right now,” Bronznick said, referring to Israel’s war against Hamas, launched following the Oct. 7 attack. “She never gave up on bridge-building. She never gave up on making change. She never gave up on people… She always focused on people, children, what motivated them, what meant something to them.”

Before Oct. 7, Silver was due for another stay at Bronznick’s home in New York City in early December. On top of each of the days in Bronznick’s calendar, she had written “Viv.”

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Israel’s attacks in Gaza have killed at least 100 Palestinian journalists and media workers. Others have been severely wounded, forcibly displaced or lost entire families. These journalists report on Israel’s attacks, the resulting starvation and humanitarian crisis in Gaza, all while experiencing it themselves.

Now, Palestinian journalists are calling on U.S. reporters to boycott the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in protest of the Biden administration’s actions toward Gaza. “It is unacceptable to stay silent out of fear or professional concern while journalists in Gaza continue to be detained, tortured, and killed for doing our jobs,” the journalists wrote in a letter calling for the boycott.

As press organizations continue to raise concerns about Israel’s deliberate targeting of journalists, the Biden administration has made over one hundred military sales to Israel since Oct. 7.

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Associate Producer: Katherine Conner

#Palestine #Gaza #Biden #Journalist #WhiteHouse #Boycott #Palestinian #Israel

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Many Democratic lawmakers are telling their staff to let phone calls asking for a cease-fire in Gaza go to voicemail.

At least 24 lawmakers in the House and Senate have called for a cease-fire in Gaza, but Joe Biden has said there is “no possibility” of that happening. Instead, Israel agreed this week to a daily four-hour “humanitarian pause,” which it seems to think is enough time for civilians to flee bombs on foot.

Staff from more than 24 Democratic congressional offices told HuffPost in a story published Thursday that the caucus was unprepared for how many calls, emails, and letters they are receiving from constituents demanding a cease-fire. Most lawmakers do not yet have an official response.

One staffer, speaking anonymously, said that until a formal stance is developed, many of them have been told to “let it go to voicemail.”

Another staffer said that the office phone rings every five minutes with someone urging a cease-fire. A third staffer said the phone “doesn’t stop ringing at any point in the day.”

The majority of voters across party lines believe in the need for a cease-fire, and 80 percent of Democratic voters agree that the United States should call for a cease-fire and de-escalation in Gaza, according to a poll from Data for Progress.

It’s not just constituents, either. More than 100 staffers, both Democratic and Republican, staged a walkout on Wednesday to call for a cease-fire in Gaza.

But lawmakers, by and large, seem to be fine ignoring the calls. Some believe the movement will eventually just die down, and one lawmaker allegedly joked, “They weren’t going to vote for me anyway.”

Staffers are shocked at both the public unity behind the issue and lawmakers’ refusal to take it seriously.

“This building is not listening,” one Democratic aide told HuffPost. “I’ve never seen such a disconnect between where voters and constituents are and where Congress is, and that’s saying something because there’s always a disconnect.”

More than 11,000 Palestinian civilians, mostly women and children, have been killed in Israel’s ongoing retaliation to Hamas’s October 7 attack. The fighting has also killed at least 39 journalists and other media workers and more than 100 United Nations employees.

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wrote this on twitter because its on twitter, instagram, and tiktok that the EBU might see and be forced to care, not here

for the international community; israel being banned from Eurovision Song Contest would be kinda a PR nightmare for them, it would mean that the EBU that has allowed them to continue participating through several wars, the establishing of the blockade on the gaza strip, and several human rights abuses under apartheid... has finally decided to wash their hands of israel

while participating in ESC doesnt directly fund israel like companies do, participating is in itself Huge propaganda due to the popularity of eurovision

so as the israeli preliminaries that select their star for Eurovision is set to start airing today; go on social media and ask how many more palestinian lives it will take until they will care and if audience members will be punished for waving palestinian flags

use the eurovision tags to ask how 64 killed UN workers, 31 killed journalists, a lack of essential goods, and the over 100 people killed in west bank does not taint ESCs "pristine" reputation

or ask if the ESCs and EBUs reputation has always been this dirty

more people are now aware and protesting for a free palestine, dont wait to complain about it in may next year, take advantage of this energy online and get their ass

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1. Classification – Dividing people into ‘them’ and ‘us’. (Palestinian civilians referred to as “terrorists”, look at any gov official, they say it themself)

2. Symbolisation – Forcing groups to wear or be associated with symbols which identify them as different. (Worker ID tags on ankles. Color of ID determines how much can even move, if can event get an id to begin with. Can purchase but not guaranteed.

3. Discrimination – Excluding groups from participating in civil society, such as by excluding them from voting or certain places. (East Jerusalemites were denied or delayed for citizenship. Restricting Water Access for Palestinians, but ensures plentiful access for Israel. Road Restrictions , American Road , More of road restrictions . Many Palestinians (not all) aren’t able to vote, Those coming to visit Palestine are faced with harsh restrictions by Israel. Color of ID determines how much can even move, if can event get an id to begin with. Can purchase but not guaranteed. Travel permits for aid struggles.

4. Dehumanisation – To deny the humanity of one group, and associate them with animals or diseases in order to belittle them.(Go on really any gov officials for Israel they call them animals all the time, remember the children of darkness and children of light comment? Shirts of pregnant Palestinians with a cross hair. Palestinians are tried to military court. Palestinians held without charge indefinitely. Children have most difficulty getting aid as they have hardest time traveling due to IDs needing to be for 16+, those under age have to travel with someone 55+. Facial Recognition of West Bank Civilians. Blockades and caloric counting

5. Organization – Training police or army units and providing them with weapons and knowledge in order to persecute a group in future. (IDF veterans talks of their violent treatment of Palestinians. , Facial Recognition of West Bank Civilians. )

6. Polarisation – Using propaganda to polarise society, create distance and exclude a group further. Some examples:

7. Preparation – Planning of mass murder and identifying specific victims. (Desiring Gaza to be flattened. ,The Gospel AI targets, if it truly was for Hamas, why are so many children being killed, Short Selling of Stock, Knew of the planned attack a year ago, Development of more settlements, Using unguided “dumb” bombs, Razing Cemeteries, False claims to Al-Shifa, “Voluntary” Emigration, Planned Settlements , Destroying more graves, Dug up graves to destroy them, Cutting of water, Unable to use rain water, Control of water, Israeli children singing to annihilate Gaza, Child being taken hostage in 2013, Desire to level Gaza

8. Persecution – Incarcerating groups in ghettos or concentration camps , forcibly displacing groups, expropriating  property, belongings or wealth. (Incarcerations 1 , 2 , Displacement, IDF ransacking homes, Burning food more ransacking, Stealing cigarettes, Stealing jewelry, Detaining at the border, Stealing pets, Kidnapping a baby, liquidate the ghetto, Taking and abusing UNRWA school civilians and stripping them

9. Extermination – Committing mass murder. (20K and counting), Killing doctors and nurses, vowing not to stop till complete quiet, Blockades where people are being killed and ambulances being restricted, Targeting PRCS , Residential buildings being bombed, UN schools bombed, Over 100 journalists killed, Journalists targeted , Use of White Phospherus, More PRCS Volunteers killed, Increased hospital shortages due to bombings, Decomposed Babies in hospital, due to lack of aid there is a rise in diseases, lack of aid now has COVID spreading,

10. Denial – Denial of any crimes. This does not necessarily mean denying that the acts of murder happened, but denying that these acts were a crime, and were in fact justified. (Look at any social media, it’s rampant everywhere, it’s all for “defense.”)

Stages of Holocaust Genocide

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Journalists 'have zero protection': Hind Khoudary on reporting from Gaza

As the world marks Press Freedom Day, we turn to Gaza and the mounting toll of journalist deaths since October 7th. More than 100 media workers have been killed in the last seven months, as Israel continues its deadly war on Gaza. So how are journalists in Gaza continuing their reporting? And are journalists in the West doing enough to shine a light on the plight of their Palestinian colleagues? This week on UpFront, Marc Lamont Hill speaks to Hind Khoudary, an Al Jazeera journalist who has been reporting from the ground since day one.

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On February 27, over 100 people gathered at a candlelight vigil in San Jose to honor the life and sacrifice of Aaron Bushnell.

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On the front steps of San Jose's Martin Luther King Library, community members laid out candles, flowers, Palestinian and Yemeni flags, and a sign reading “Rest in power and peace, Aaron Bushnell.” Members of the public were invited to speak in an impromptu open-mic program. People from a wide variety of backgrounds shared the impact that Bushnell's act of protest had on them, including veterans, students, healthcare workers and journalists. Harry Adams, a U.S. Air Force veteran who served during the Vietnam War, spoke about Bushnell's courage in refusing to be complicit in this ongoing atrocity. Adams has spent the last several decades of his life advocating for peace alongside other veterans. Bojana Cvijic, a journalist who was previously a writer for San José State University student newspaper Spartan Daily, strongly criticized the mainstream corporate media for their obfuscation of Bushnell's act of protest. Many news outlets have omitted any mention of the genocide in Gaza from their headlines about Bushnell's death. Tarentz Charite from Students for a Democratic Society encouraged the crowd to continue to protest against the genocide, saying, “We are not complicit in a system of death if we fight for a system of life. We are not complacent in a system of oppression if we fight for freedom.” The vigil was called by San Jose Against War, a new grassroots anti-war organization in San Jose.

-- "San Jose anti-war activists hold vigil for Aaron Bushnell" from Fight Back! News, 29 Feb 2024

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Marc Lamont Hill talks to Al Jazeera journalist Hind Khoudary on World Press Freedom Day about reporting from Gaza.

As the world marks Press Freedom Day, we turn to Gaza and the mounting toll of journalist deaths since October 7th. More than 100 media workers have been killed in the last seven months, as Israel continues its deadly war on Gaza.

So how are journalists in Gaza continuing their reporting? And are journalists in the West doing enough to shine a light on the plight of their Palestinian colleagues?

This week on UpFront, Marc Lamont Hill speaks to Hind Khoudary, an Al Jazeera journalist who has been reporting from the ground since day one.

[old-school-butch]

It's pretty hilarious to follow the trail of propaganda.

Al Jazeera gets the ball rolling, as it always does.

Yes, yes, they were definitely hiding 7 military vehicles by sneaking in with a van and a car first.

"To provide air cover, Israeli forces started bombing from above..."

yes, yes, this is a stealthy operation for sure, good thing that van was there as a disguise...

"A widely shared video on social media shows the few remaining medics in the hospital standing in the middle of countless people lying on the floor, in agony, bleeding and screaming. The medic in the middle of the shot is bereft. He can no longer move around because there are so many patients lying on every square inch of the tile floor, there is nowhere for him to put his feet. It is not clear how he continued that day.."

Yes, yes, how does one provide medical aid when the floor is so covered in patients you can't walk, they've kind of tripped over their own hyperbole there.

Surely, other media will fact check this before repeating it.

The Middle East Eye:

"A local journalist for Al Jazeera news agency has alleged that Israeli forces entered Nuseirat refugee camp using humanitarian aid trucks as a guise.

Middle East Eye could not immediately verify the report. "

Did anyone talk to an actual official for factual details?

The New Arab gives it a whirl by contacting multiple sources, so at least you have some point of comparison:

"The Israeli army said it killed "less than 100 civilians" in the operation, which was praised in Israel for the successful return of captives for the first time since the start of the war. It also denied using a civilian truck in the operation, despite witness testimonies." [Note: I'm pretty sure the IDF said less than 100 were killed in the entire operation, not that they killed civilians, since the death toll includes Hamas and IDF fighters, but ok...]

"Nearby al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital reported being severely overwhelmed by dozens of casualties..."

How many dozens? Surely someone can count...

"A hospital spokesperson told AP at the time that it received the bodies of 109 Palestinians, including 23 children and 11 women."

Well that's terrible. Honestly, any loss of civilian life is awful and even if the women and children were family members involved in holding hostages, I doubt they had much choice about it. But I will also use that number to assume that roughly 75 Hamas fighters were killed in the raid, although... it doesn't say whether any of these people were killed by IDF or Hamas during the firefight.

Hamas gives the official numbers in the same article:

"Gaza's health ministry said the hours-long attack killed 274 people, including 64 children and 57 women, and injured over 700 people, describing it as a massacre."

Not to be outdone, Al Jazeera gives the casualty report in its own article as "at least 274 Palestinians killed" and of course they're not going to imagine some of the deaths might have come from Hamas' counter-fire.

Haaretz puts a different spin on the broken telephone reporting, saying "Palestinians on the ground additionally report that Israeli forces disguised themselves as foreign aid workers before invading the camp..." instead of the claim that soldiers were hiding in a civilian truck, they are now in civilian clothes. They add that Americans 'were involved' and 'as the future of the hostage deal is up in the air...' because apparently more deaths are a reason to keep fighting and holding hostages and not a reason to end this stupid war.

Al Jazeera really likes to complicate the story though:

"At a certain point during the raid, more Israeli soldiers landed in a helicopter on Gaza’s shore, not far from the US-built pier..."

It's Gaza, everything is not far from everything, that place is so small, but that line is there for a reason. Did you not know U.S. troops are invading Gaza because, after all, the rescue helicopter was at some point not far from the U.S. Aid pier?

Note how Hamas' casualty count is accepted as fact, and American involvement now has to be denied.

The U.S. took a big political risk building that pier, because of accusations just like this. You get shit on for providing aid, and shit on if you don't. Iran is also accusing Britain of involvement, because why not? It's not like you need to provide evidence, just build online consensus based on the CCTV footage I posted at the top. And this travels all the way from Iran's Foreign Ministry to tumblr.

Go look at the evidence again, a van on a street, followed by a military vehicle. No geolocation provided to prove what we're looking at, no footage of Israeli soldiers emerging from an umarked van with guns blazing, no bodycam evidence from Hamas soldiers stationed in the area. Everyone has a cell phone to take videos to show the wounded at hospitals, but all these witnesses describing IDF soldiers hiding in a van and/or in civilian clothes didn't think to snap a pic? There's also no real reason why using a civilian van immediately followed by 7 military vehicles would benefit the IDF operation. Like, that doesn't even make sense. I notice some stories use the phrase 'infiltrated the camp disguised as aid workers', meaning they gathered intelligence beforehand in disguise, which makes perfect sense. But spying isn't a war crime, so you need to believe something more perfidious.

Welcome to the propaganda war.

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Common Dreams:

Al Jazeera is the only international news network providing nonstop on-the-ground coverage of Israel's war on Gaza. Its reporters work under constant risk to life and limb, as more than 100 media professionals, the vast majority of them Palestinians, have been killed by Israeli forces since October 7. CPJ and others say have decried what they say are deliberate attacks on media workers and their families. In December, Israeli troops killed Al Jazeera cameraman Samer Abudaqa as he reported on the war in southern Gaza, an attack that also injured the network's Gaza bureau chief, Wael Dahdouh, whose wife, son, daughter, and grandson were killed in a separate IDF strike. Previous independent probes—including investigations of Abu Akleh's killing—have confirmed that Israel has deliberately targeted journalists. Last May, CPJ published Deadly Pattern, an investigation that found the IDF killed at least 20 journalists over the past 22 years with impunity. While some of the slain journalists have been foreigners—including Italian Associated Press reporter Simone Camilli and British cameraman and filmmaker James Miller—the vast majority of victims have been Palestinian. Israeli forces have also attacked newsrooms in every major assault on Gaza, including in May 2021 when the 11-story al-Jalaa Tower, which housed offices of Al Jazeera, The Associated Press, and other media outlets, was destroyed in an airstrike.

[sa7abnews]

Dozens killed in Israeli airstrike on school

New Post has been published on https://sa7ab.info/2024/08/16/dozens-killed-in-israeli-airstrike-on-school/

Dozens killed in Israeli airstrike on school

West Jerusalem claims that the facility was being used by Hamas as a military headquarters

Dozens of people have been killed and many more injured in an Israeli airstrike on a school-turned-shelter in Gaza City, the Palestinian authorities have said. The attack on the Tabeen school in the central part of the city took place on Saturday morning and was confirmed by both officials in Gaza and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). There are conflicting reports so far about the number of casualties. Al Jazeera said, citing Gaza’s government media office, that more than 100 people have been killed and dozens more injured in the bombing. Not all of the bodies have been recovered so far, it added. AP provided information from the Gaza Health Ministry’s ambulance and emergency service, which put the death toll at 60, with 47 others wounded. The outlet described the incident as “one of the deadliest strikes” in the ten months of the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian armed group Hamas. Gaza’s government media office said in a statement that the number of casualties was so high because IDF warplanes “bombed the displaced people [at the school] while they were performing the dawn prayer.”

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Washington slams Israeli minister’s ceasefire criticism

“We hold the Israeli occupation and the American administration fully responsible for this massacre,” the statement read. The strike “comes within the framework of the crime of genocide and ethnic cleansing against our Palestinian people,” it added. Palestinian journalists said the facility was hit by at least three bombs. Some people were reportedly trapped in the building, which caught fire after the attack. Emergency workers are unable to extinguish the blaze and rescue them, as Israel cut off the water supply to the area, according to their reports. The Israeli military claimed on X (formerly Twitter) that it targeted the school because it had been used as a headquarters by Hamas, from which the group “planned and promoted terrorist operations against the IDF forces and the citizens of the State of Israel.” “Hamas systematically violates international law and operates from civilian shelters, using the population as a human shield,” the IDF said. According to UN data, 477 out of 564 schools in Gaza, almost all of which were turned into shelters for refugees during the conflict, have been directly hit or damaged as of July 6.

READ MORE: Allowing two million Gazans to starve ‘may be moral’ – Israeli minister

Israel began its military operation in Gaza in response to a cross-border incursion by Hamas last October, in which around 1,200 people were killed and 250 were taken hostage. More than 39,600 people have been killed so far and over 91,700 others have been wounded in Israel’s airstrikes and ground offensive in the Palestinian enclave, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.

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Even before the outbreak of the current war, CPJ’s “Deadly Pattern” report in May 2023 documented 20 journalists killed by Israeli fire over two decades without anyone held accountable, such as Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh, a Palestinian-American journalist killed in the West Bank in 2022. In that report, CPJ also noted several cases in which journalists killed were accused of being terrorists without any credible evidence produced.

In case you missed it, this has been the deadliest "war" for journalists ever

In Salman al-Bashir's words as he tore his press vest off in the middle of his broadcast:

"We are victims, live on air," he cried. "It is only a matter of time until we are killed. We wait our turn, one after the other."

Protecting the word is important. Protect the people who carry the word is of much higher priority. This is a genocide. Free Palestine. From the river to the sea, Palestine will be Free.

[mercyofkalr]

As the world recognized Press Freedom Day on May 3, Palestinian journalists continued to be incarcerated, injured, and killed in record numbers by the Israeli military. Western media workers, meanwhile, face retaliation and obstruction for seeking to elevate Palestinian voices or simply expressing concern about the media’s lopsided coverage of the Israel-Gaza war. Some are even being pepper-sprayed, detained, and arrested while covering pro-Palestinian campus protests.  Member-organizers with the Freelance Solidarity Project, the digital media division of the National Writers Union, are releasing a groundbreaking report, “Red Lines: Retaliation in the media industry during the war on Gaza.” This is a first-of-its-kind effort to document a pattern of retaliation against Western media workers as well as the implications of the phenomenon for media coverage of the ongoing bombardment of Gaza. The report tallies 44 cases of workplace retaliation occurring between October 7, 2023, and February 1, 2024, impacting more than 100 people. It draws on data compiled from two NWU-administered surveys as well as news reports and social media posts. The report suggests that leaders of Western media companies and cultural institutions have disproportionately targeted workers of color, particularly workers of Middle Eastern or North African descent and those who identify as Muslim. It also gives a clearer picture of the multiple forms of retaliation levied against media workers: termination, suspension, restrictions on assignments, online harassment, social media censorship, and the cancellation of speaking events. Despite the report’s limited sample size, the results hint at what is likely a much more widespread, systemic phenomenon that demands further examination. The results raise important questions about the state of journalism in the West, including political contestation over the concept of objectivity, and point to major gaps in the commitment that newsrooms have made to diversity and inclusion in recent years. Testimony from impacted media workers highlights the ways that such retaliation is affecting coverage of what might be the most important geopolitical event in at least a decade. It also highlights the ways in which retaliation is a labor rights issue. Analysis of the cases revealed that labor unions offered some protection from actual or potential retaliation.

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