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Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif has been killed alongside four colleagues in a targeted Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists in Gaza City.

Seven people were killed in the attack on the tent located outside the main gate of Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital late on Sunday evening, including Al Jazeera correspondent Mohammed Qreiqeh and camera operators Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal and Moamen Aliwa.

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[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 10 points 6 days ago

Death, death to the IDF!

[–] Aria@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 6 days ago

The strike killed seven and maimed eight. All but Anas al-Sharif were collateral damage. The justification for the strike was killing al-Sharif, who Israel says was secretly hiding Hamas soldiers in his backpack.

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 107 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Whoa whoa whoa. Israel targets civilians so often that they are bound to murder entire journalism teams at once.

We can't assume intent until an investigation is completed by... Oh yeah.

Fucking monsters.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 34 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The IDF admitted they killed him intentionally and said he was KHAMAAS

[–] Pierre121000@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

If palestinians had to kill every IDF supporter there wouldn't be many left standing in Israel.

Edit : In my ignorant opinion :
It's obvious but i still want to add it : Hamas was the government, they paid the salary of doctors, civil servants, and a huge part of the population.
And Gaza was one of the poorest population in the world because of the heartless Israel, typically the far-right will complain about the bad (re)actions of people while refusing to see their own responsability in the causes that led them to (re)act(, e.g., they'll refuse to see that poverty leads to crime, neocolonialism to immigration, or in this case that refusing a two-states solution leads to terrorism).
Not that it's a shortsightedness of Netanyahu, he mostly doesn't care, its expansion of the annexation of the Golan Heights was a success on which he ended his political career(, and of course there's the 77th anniversary, yay...), and now if he can take control in a form or another of Gaza, for "security", Israel will only have left to continue the slow colonization of the West Bank, slow enough not to cause too much of a stir, nothing difficult.
Even if the palestinians accepted demilitarization and everything Israel could demand, they probably still wouldn't obtain the two-states solution they're entitled to by international decisions, it'd be useless to speak about improving Israel's security if the real cause is their desire to expand.

The only future left to palestinians would be to come back to launching "terrorist" (~suicide-)bombings from exile, like during the 70s and 80s, and i'm sorry that their suffering has to continue. I didn't realize how harsh&unjust their daily lives were, and the systematic injustices in the west bank(, only that the uninterrupted settlement's expansion left them no other choice than fighting back).

It's a win for Israel, we'll soon forget about everything, after all there are no foreign journalists allowed in, and almost no local journalists left to cover Gaza city's razing, and we didn't really see much. Far from sight, and far from the heart.
What would force Israel to accept a two-states solution ? The Bogotá conference was interesting with its economic sanctions, there's also diplomatic isolation if the US intervenes, local pressures and covert actions from unified neighbours, and a gamble that the future will let them take their revenge(, not a future with the US as the "world police" then, unless it's suddenly starting to defend the two-states solution, in deeds and not in words).
The west also holds a possibility to offer a territory for muslims and a territory for the jews in exchange for a third of the Holy Lands.

[–] eddanja@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (4 children)

But why?? What is the point to the senselessness of this?

[–] keyhoh@piefed.social 39 points 1 week ago

It's to remove anyone that would testify against the Zionists should the world finally hold them accountable and arrest their leaders.

[–] j_elgato@leminal.space 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

With no one to report facts, the narrative can be constructed to say anything they want.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's crazy that this isn't immediately self-apparent to people...

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Maybe Israel wants to control the narrative and Gaza's journalists are getting in the way.

Maybe they want revenge on Palestinians for daring to risist. Same reason they bomb hospitals and kitchens and schools. Same reason the mow down crowds of aid seekers. Same reason they target children for daring to be born. Same reason they torture doctors. They're trying to break the will of the people and punish them for daring to resist, and make themselves feel powerful and godlike even though they still can't actually win.

Or maybe the cruelty is the point, they're so poisoned by their own propaganda that they just delight in genocide for its own sake. Winning isn't the point anymore and it's just about inflicting suffering and terror and death.

[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Are they actively resisting though? I'm pretty sure Israel is just performing ethnic cleansing of the area.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 week ago

Medical staff continue treating the wounded even though they have basically no supplies left and their jobs have been made nearly impossible, Hamas still continues killing occupation troops, Ansar Allah continues enforcing its Red Sea blockade, there are many forms of resistance still happening even in this late stage of the genocide.

But even the very act of living is resistance in a time of genocide. Even the people who don't pick up a gauze or a gun are resisting, merely because they haven't given up the will to live.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Anas Al Sharif was the only journalist left in North Gaza. He reports on the most dangerous scenes without fear for his life.

[–] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 46 points 1 week ago
[–] SoupBrick@pawb.social 41 points 1 week ago
[–] herseycokguzelolacak@lemmy.ml 34 points 1 week ago

IDF is a fascist, terrorist entity.

[–] Pierre121000@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

For what it's worth, in 2024 he won the Human Rights Defender award by Amnesty, and no less than the Pulitzer Prize (Breaking News Photography category).

They're just dying, imagine if they were israelis : https://x.com/AnasAlSharif0/status/1954670507128914219

This is my will and my final message. If these words reach you, know that Israel has succeeded in killing me and silencing my voice. First, peace be upon you and Allah’s mercy and blessings.

Allah knows I gave every effort and all my strength to be a support and a voice for my people, ever since I opened my eyes to life in the alleys and streets of the Jabalia refugee camp. My hope was that Allah would extend my life so I could return with my family and loved ones to our original town of occupied Asqalan (Al-Majdal). But Allah’s will came first, and His decree is final. I have lived through pain in all its details, tasted suffering and loss many times, yet I never once hesitated to convey the truth as it is, without distortion or falsification—so that Allah may bear witness against those who stayed silent, those who accepted our killing, those who choked our breath, and whose hearts were unmoved by the scattered remains of our children and women, doing nothing to stop the massacre that our people have faced for more than a year and a half.

I entrust you with Palestine—the jewel in the crown of the Muslim world, the heartbeat of every free person in this world. I entrust you with its people, with its wronged and innocent children who never had the time to dream or live in safety and peace. Their pure bodies were crushed under thousands of tons of Israeli bombs and missiles, torn apart and scattered across the walls.

I urge you not to let chains silence you, nor borders restrain you. Be bridges toward the liberation of the land and its people, until the sun of dignity and freedom rises over our stolen homeland. I entrust you to take care of my family. I entrust you with my beloved daughter Sham, the light of my eyes, whom I never got the chance to watch grow up as I had dreamed.

I entrust you with my dear son Salah, whom I had wished to support and accompany through life until he grew strong enough to carry my burden and continue the mission.

I entrust you with my beloved mother, whose blessed prayers brought me to where I am, whose supplications were my fortress and whose light guided my path. I pray that Allah grants her strength and rewards her on my behalf with the best of rewards.

I also entrust you with my lifelong companion, my beloved wife, Umm Salah (Bayan), from whom the war separated me for many long days and months. Yet she remained faithful to our bond, steadfast as the trunk of an olive tree that does not bend—patient, trusting in Allah, and carrying the responsibility in my absence with all her strength and faith.
I urge you to stand by them, to be their support after Allah Almighty. If I die, I die steadfast upon my principles. I testify before Allah that I am content with His decree, certain of meeting Him, and assured that what is with Allah is better and everlasting.

O Allah, accept me among the martyrs, forgive my past and future sins, and make my blood a light that illuminates the path of freedom for my people and my family. Forgive me if I have fallen short, and pray for me with mercy, for I kept my promise and never changed or betrayed it.

Do not forget Gaza… And do not forget me in your sincere prayers for forgiveness and acceptance.

Anas Jamal Al-Sharif 06.04.2025

This is what our beloved Anas requested to be published upon his martyrdom.

« [Israel] has, since October 7, 2023, killed more journalists than the U.S. Civil War, World Wars I and II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War (including the conflicts in Cambodia and Laos), the wars in Yugoslavia in the 1990s and 2000s, and the post-9/11 war in Afghanistan, combined. »

« 6.000 trucks loaded with aid stuck outside Gaza [are still] waiting for the green light to enter »

After the massacres in south-east Asia in the 50-60s, the coups&dictatorships of the 70-80s in South America(, the remnants of european communism in the 90s), Netanyahu was a first witness to the massacres of the 2000-2010s in the Middle-East, he overturned 1991, and could say that there's no credible other path left now.

However, the UK could have pretended the same impossibility of a life with palestinians in order to deny Ireland's independence, or white south africans in order to refuse an end to the apartheid, either with two states, or with a multi-ethnic state like Belgium or Switzerland. Seems doable.
But Israel "just" wants the whole sacred lands for themselves, even if it matters for the other monotheist religions as well. They could share instead.

[–] DeathToUS@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

Israel murders = US murders.

[–] Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fucking demons. They all should see the darkest hole of a prison for the rest of their lives.

This is how you know not to trust Israel: when independent journalists are murdered, blocking the truth from getting out.

[–] egs81t@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 6 days ago

Sadly, I don't believe that they will see any consequences of their actions.