Killed as terrorists: journalists who document horror in Gaza are scary in Israel

No bulletproof vest can protect from Israeli psychopathy“, So wrote the colleague of the journalist Mariam Barghouti in an X post.

At the dawn of a new day, the news coming from the Middle East is the most devastating. Hunger and destruction is not enough, it is not enough to see children reduced to skin and bones and people who get rid of a plate of soup. Under attack there are also journalists, whom Israel considers terrorists. And for this they must be eliminated.

Thus, in the past few hours, two reporters have been killed in Gaza – Anas Al-Sharif And Mohammed Qreiqeh – and three cameramen – Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal And Moamen Aliwa – by Al Jazeera, affected by an Israeli raid against the strip.

A targeted Israeli attack against a tent used by his journalists in Gaza City, in front of the Al-Shifa hospital, says the Arab broadcaster based in Qatar.

The fault of making information

Anas Al-Sharif was 28 years old and was one of Al Jazeera’s most recognizable faces in Gaza. Shortly before his death, he had published a post on the concentrated missile bombing of Israel on the eastern and southern areas of Gaza City, capturing the deafening roar of the attacks near where he was.

But according to the Israeli military, Anas Al-Sharif was a “terrorist who passed off as a journalist”.

According to The Guardian, in fact, the Israeli defense forces said they had intelligence and documents found in Gaza that proves the involvement of Anas Al-Sharif in Hamas, but the human rights defenders claim that the journalist had been targeted for his first-line reporter work on the Gaza War and that the accusations of Israel are not reflected.

Defining Al-Sharif “One of the bravest journalists in Gaza“, The Jazeera says that the attack represented”A desperate attempt to silence the rumors in anticipation of the employment of Gaza“.

Anas, like all Gaza journalists, was killed for sharing the truth without filters, doing what most journalists in their comfortable offices cannot: their work, he added.

In his last message, at Sharif he promised to be the unwavering voice of his people, even in the face of death, entrusting the world the truth about the suffering of Gaza and the hope of freedom.

Israel, who does not allow foreign journalists to enter Gaza and who targeted local journalists, killed 237 journalists since the beginning of the war on 7 October 2023, according to the Gaza government press office. With the death of Al Sharif, and that of his colleagues, today, we all have an extra weight on the shoulders.

#Journalismisnotacrime

Sources: X / The Guardian / Al-Jazeera

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