Emotional outburst on live TV from Gaza over death of reporter encapsulates collective grief
Emotional outburst on live TV from Gaza over death of reporter encapsulates collective grief
The on-air outburst of grief by Salman al-Bashir seemed to channel the mood of all Gaza
“No one is looking at us or the extent of this disaster or the crimes that we are experiencing in Gaza,” he said. Still holding his microphone, he slid off his flak jacket marked with the word PRESS and unstrapped his helmet.
“These protection jackets and helmets don't protect us,” he said, flinging the equipment to the ground. “Nothing protects journalists. ... We lose our lives for no reason.”
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So now Israel targets Hamas AND the press? The latter just feels so wrong.
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No they were targeting them specifically from the beginning, not just now.
At least 31 Journalists have been killed and we're not even a month in.
Here's the wiki site that keeps count: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_journalists_killed_in_the_2023_Israel–Hamas_war
Here are current year and prior maps to 92' that you can tweak from the Committee to Protect Journalists. It really helps to change search parameters like causation, year, region etc, to get a very full view of how absolutely abnormal the number of journalist deaths are.
This one got to me: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zMKyH4jCnTE
Fuck. This is extremely hard to watch. My heart breaks for this man and his family.
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Israel has a storied history now of killing journalists, here is the most famous example:
https://www.vox.com/2022/5/11/23067365/shireen-abu-akleh-palestinian-journalist-killed-israel
God damn.