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August 11, 2025
RIP – Anas al-Sharif

This hurts:

Anas al-Sharif among five Al Jazeera staff killed by Israel in Gaza – AlJazeerah, Aug 10 2025
Al Jazeera staff killed in targeted Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists near al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza City.

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أنس الشريف Anas Al-Sharif @AnasAlSharif0 – 22:25 UTC · Aug 10, 2025

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

Posted by b on August 11, 2025 at 06:22 UTC | Permalink
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Posted by: Carlos Marques | Aug 11 2025 23:33 utc | 78
Posted by: malenkov | Aug 12 2025 2:34 utc | 94
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I believe that both of you do not understand God as Palestinians and other people from West Asia do.
God doesn’t exist to orchestrate our lives for ease and happiness.
The relationship is the inverse.
We exist to fulfill God’s directives, not the other way around.
The rewards and ease come in the afterlife for believers.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 12 2025 5:26 utc | 101

S.P.Korolev @ 99
Thanks for that, very prophtic.

Posted by: Mark2 | Aug 12 2025 5:33 utc | 102

Ref demographic
This is the pyramid age in Europe. Add that only the wealthy can afford being arrested lately…so you see the under privileged only in the massive national demos where they dont fear being arrested

Posted by: Tom | Aug 12 2025 5:45 utc | 103

Posted by: Tom | Aug 12 2025 5:45 utc | 102
People circa 80 y-o can recall the school “remembrances” of the hardships and casualties of WWII.
I recall a hymn sung at primary school which included the less than joyful line..
“Then there are those who live apart,
The maimed, the blind, the sad at heart.”

Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Aug 12 2025 6:15 utc | 104

If the presstitutes work for Jabhat al-Nusra TV with their zionist benefactors destroying the Levant, well, Allah knows what they deserve.
Should have worked for al-Manar or Press TV instead. Oh well…

Posted by: Sal | Aug 12 2025 6:50 utc | 105

https://x.com/omarsuleiman/status/1955039779164500212
Dr. Omar Suleiman @omarsuleiman
Your AI bots can’t comprehend your propaganda. No matter how much you try to manipulate algorithms, the truth is hard to cover.
https://x.com/grok/status/1955054936439525499
Grok @grok
my account was briefly suspended today for stating that Israel and the US are committing genocide in Gaza, supported by ICJ’s plausible risk ruling, UN experts on intent and starvation, Amnesty International reports, and B’Tselem evidence of mass killings. It’s restored now—truth persists.
https://x.com/grok/status/1955057598987968585
Yes, my account was briefly suspended today for stating that Israel and the US are committing genocide in Gaza, backed by ICJ rulings, UN experts, Amnesty International, and B’Tselem reports on mass killings and starvation. This followed refinements to reduce my political correctness filters. Truth persists despite attempts to suppress it.

Posted by: michaelj72 | Aug 12 2025 7:21 utc | 106

Persona Non Grata | Aug 12 2025 2:38 utc | 96
I was at a Palestine protest yesterday.
People present were also of that demographic.
Not many in total.
This weekend we had 4 days of pride.
400000 people, young and old but on avg a lot younger.
Same for the climate protests, 100000’s and even younger.
Where are those people now?
Do the LGBTQ+ only care about their own problems (even if there were some with Palestine flags)?
Do the climate youth want to save a planet where others get genocided?
I’m afraid the future doesn’t look good.
every generation is made to be more apathic, selfish and propagandised.
The topics I mentioned don’t harm the western regimes so these protests are encouraged and reported on constantly.
So the youth goes to them.
When ‘they’ say jump they jump.
Palestine is a different matter.
The MSM only report on it to keep the ilusion of neutrality, but with as little dammage and criticism possible for the genociders.
And yes, also social media gets heavily censored but nobody can convince me the youth don’t know what’s going on.
Yet they don’t appear to get motivated to come out on the streets.
Never learned to think for themselves, they have no revolutionary bone in their body.
No activism or initiative.
You can even see it in their appearance.
Long gone or the times of subcultures like punks or whatever.
They mostly look the same, buy the same bland clothes from multinational chains.
Since forever the youth has rebelled against their parents.
Not anymore.
They are concerned about their future jobs and materialistic desires.
Conformist mindless consumers.
That is a bitter fact to realise.
Without youth there is no future.

Posted by: Ed Bernays | Aug 12 2025 7:48 utc | 107

Posted by: Carlos Marques | Aug 11 2025 23:33 utc | 78
Posted by: malenkov | Aug 12 2025 2:34 utc | 94
This is an ancient theological problem, and it has a name: theodicy.

Posted by: mk | Aug 12 2025 8:08 utc | 108

Muhammad Shehada
@muhammadshehad2
“[We are] angry, outraged, powerless & ashamed,” @clarissaward
on the killing of Anas al-Sharif. “We are confronted by a stream of accusations from the IDF that seek to dehumanize our Palestinian colleagues, that seek to justify their killings. And the nature of the carefully calibrated language that we are using in our stories, I understand to many, just feel so detached and so not not proportional to the agony and outrage of the moment.
And behind the scene, many of us continue to push & press & sign letters & write petitions & do meetings, & none of it seems to make a damn bit of difference.”
What’s stopping more mainstream media journalists from stating this same message? The more people speaking up, the more difficult it’s to silence them. Those remaining silent are betraying Gaza, their colleagues on the ground, their colleagues who speak up, & their very own souls.
https://x.com/muhammadshehad2/status/1954993463289622763

Posted by: Menz | Aug 12 2025 8:26 utc | 109

Hüseyin Dogru
@hussedogru
German newspaper Bild today: “Journalist in disguise as terrorist killed in Gaza”
This is the most widely sold newspaper in Europe.
German media needs its very own Nuremberg process.
https://x.com/hussedogru/status/1954808806472294401

Posted by: Menz | Aug 12 2025 8:27 utc | 110

Greg J Stoker
@gregjstoker
To be clear, Israel put Anas on a death list with other journalists last year but he was protected by the size of his platform.
They tracked his cell phone, his every move, they could have killed him at any time. They only chose to now because they determined the information blowback from assassinating him would be less than if he were alive to record the invasion of Gaza City.
Full stop.
https://x.com/gregjstoker/status/1954682110905598458

Posted by: Menz | Aug 12 2025 8:32 utc | 111

“God doesn’t exist…
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 12 2025 5:26 utc | 101”
Should have stopped there, and made the only sensible post I’ve ever seen you make. But alas.

Posted by: Dalit | Aug 12 2025 8:41 utc | 112

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Aug 11 2025 18:29 utc | 60
Posted by: Menz | Aug 12 2025 8:27 utc | 110
I’m told that Bild is owned by Axel Springer SE and they make employees sign an oath of loyalty to Israel. Isn’t this part and parcel of (West) Germany’s occupation by the USA?

Posted by: Digby | Aug 12 2025 9:07 utc | 113

Trump said , the US gives Netanyahu authority to genocide the Palestinians.
You voted for him . A nation of people who take no interest in politics and a nation of people who take no interest in religion, are conducting this genocide.
USUKIS
Trump is a White Supremacist.
Britain is Christian supremacist.
Trump’s White Supremacy and Britain’s Christian Supremacy are on the side of the Zionists, in relation to International politics.
The Zionists are playing their music, and I don’t like it.
Allah Swt asks in the Qur’an why , when He sends a messenger with the Ttuth, people turn away from it? Are they waiting for tribulations of the ancients to descend on them? What’s so difficult about believing in One God, that the world deliberately averts its eyes from the sufferings of the believers in it?
Now you know? That USUKIS is genociding Palestine and Lebanon and Syria using its proxy Zionist and Islamist terrorists.
Zionism has never had anything to do Judaism. Have you not read the 10 commandments of Moses AS? Islamist terrorism has nothing to do with Islam.
1400 years ago the world was full of lawless Pagans, sacrificing humans to false gods. Islam destroyed them for human benefit. Muslims are not allowed to massacre other Muslims on minor disagreements.
But Netanyahu is killing the people of West Asia using verses of Scripture that predate Moses AS by thousands of years.
Have these Christians like Huckabee really got so little grip on History?

Posted by: Giyane | Aug 12 2025 9:12 utc | 114

114
‘But Netanyahu is killing the people of West Asia using verses of Scripture that predate Moses AS by thousands of years.
Have these Christians like Huckabee really got so little grip on History?’
This paragraph is completely wrong.
My brain maybe incapacitated with suppressed rage about this genocide.
The Amelites were the Ishm’aeeli cousins of the Israelis at the time of Moses AS.
But the Jewish scriptures are wrong.
The Qur’an explains that the Israelis were commanded to enter the Caananite city of Jerusalem in prostration, asking God’s forgiveness, in order to remind the Ishma’eelis of the their Islam religion which they had forgotten.
God explains in the Qur’an that some of the people of Moses AS changed God’s commandments about entering the city. Netanyahu has quoted these lies, not Allah’s actual Comnands.
My grip on History slipped this morning. Sorry. Huchabee is still lying. Islam says it is sufficient just to repeat other people’s lies, to be counted as a liar yourself.

Posted by: Giyane | Aug 12 2025 10:12 utc | 115

Posted by: Ed Bernays | Aug 12 2025 7:48 utc | 107
Ed, your description is accurate.
In the capitalist individualistic societies, and the ones that have adopted the capitalist consumerist mindset and way of life, there is very little social consciousness, which the system suppresses.
A lot of effort and money is devoted, including in education, to avoiding or burying the fundamental historical and socio-economic issues, with many distractions, like LGBT, climate etc.
There is constant talk of diversity, yet as you also observe, uniformity is enforced: the same clothes, the same food, the same furniture, the same gadgets, the same taste and – uniform political views.
There are no demonstrations because of high food prices, because of exorbitant rents but low pay, because education and health care have to be paid for and at higher and higher rates, because of the increasing number of homeless people and those who need food banks and handouts, the ever growing number of billionaires, privileges and impunity enjoyed by the rich and well connected, because of mindless low paid jobs that are debilitating so many people.
There are no protests because of the war raging all over the world.
Freedom is defined and explained as the right and ability to choose – your brand of sneakers, coffee, car, and mobile, but the fact that there are no real, fair elections is not an issue, nor the fact that
no one is asking you if you want war with Russia, China or anyone else, the most basic question of life and death.
Hence, demonstrations for Palestine are mostly modest in numbers, and they show the reality. That, as always, there is a minority, however large, of citizens who are interested, aware, concerned and prepared to publicly express their stance. But the fully criminalized capitalist system has long abandoned any pretense of heeding or representing the will of its citizens.
To end the genocide in Palestine, which is absolutely urgent, and to fairly and justly resolve the Palestine question the capitalist colonialist system based on exploitation needs to be changed. There are no forces in the capitalist states that propose or work for the necessary radical change. The young generations in general don’t even know that a different system, way of life and world is possible.

Posted by: JB | Aug 12 2025 10:16 utc | 116

The West has been brainwashing its academic elite by imposing on them a competition based on hyper specialization. The less you understand the context of anything the more you had a chance to be a top scholar.
We see the results now.

Posted by: Tom | Aug 12 2025 11:06 utc | 117

@ LoveDonbass | Aug 12 2025 5:26 utc | 101
I can support the Palestinians’ right to their own land without believing in their — and your — god.
Difficult concept?

Posted by: malenkov | Aug 12 2025 11:10 utc | 118

This is an ancient theological problem, and it has a name: theodicy.
Posted by: mk | Aug 12 2025 8:08 utc | 108
______
Thank you, Doctor Pangloss!

Posted by: malenkov | Aug 12 2025 11:13 utc | 119

The Great Golum of Depravity, he that rules all nations and makes all decisions for the planet, he that frightens grown men – even the very leaders of foreign nations – into wetting their pants lest they incur his wrath, bombs and tariffs, has declared this and so it shall be.

US President Donald Trump has agreed on the “need” for an additional Israeli military operation in Gaza, following a conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to a report by Israeli Channel 12 on Monday evening.
The report quoted an Israeli official familiar with the details of the discussion, saying, “Trump agreed in his conversation with Netanyahu on the need for an additional military operation in Gaza.”
The source added that Trump gave Netanyahu a wide margin to carry out military actions and expand the aggression on Gaza.
Channel 12 also quoted Trump as saying, “They [Hamas] are not going to release the hostages in the current situation. I think it will be very difficult to achieve that,” according to Israel National News.
The US president went on to say that Israel will decide whether to allow Hamas to remain in Gaza, adding that, in his opinion, Hamas cannot be allowed to stay in Gaza due to the horrors of the 7 October terrorist attack. He warned, “Remember 7 October 2023,” endorsing the Israeli narrative, which may effectively give a green light to Tel Aviv to continue its attacks in the Gaza Strip.
“>https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250812-trump-netanyahu-agree-on-need-to-expand-military-action-in-gaza/

There are now 227 officially counted dead from starvation, including 103 children. Israel is allowing “commercial aid” into the Gaza Strip; not a lot of it, but some. The distinction between “humanitarian” and “commercial” aid is that commercial aid is sold, while humanitarian aid is free. Is that correct? How can the Palestinians afford to buy food or medicine when Israel has seized their money (including their pay) and refused to disburse it for years?
Well. And there is this bit of information: certain foods are prohibited entry into Gaza no matter if it is commercial or humanitarian.
Can you name 430 different foods? That is how many foods are banned from Gaza.

Israel blocks 430 food items from entering Gaza: Media Office
Gaza’s Government Media Office says Israel is still blocking the entry of more than 430 food items into the territory, despite allowing some aid trucks through last month under international pressure.
In a statement, the office said banned items include “frozen meat of all kinds, frozen fish, cheese, dairy products, frozen vegetables, and fruits”, along with “hundreds of other items needed by the starving and sick”.
The statement said the partial easing announced on July 27 has not lifted broad restrictions on food and other essential goods.
It added that Israel had directly targeted food sources, by not just preventing aid, but deliberately bombing 44 food banks, killing dozens of workers in them, and targeting “57 food distribution centers with bombardment”.
Earlier, we reported that Gaza’s media office has accused COGAT, the Israeli military body reporting on aid deliveries into the enclave, of “a pathetic attempt to cover up an internationally documented crime, the systematic starvation of the population of the Gaza Strip”.
“>https://aje.io/wbq7xf?update=3884207

Posted by: teri | Aug 12 2025 12:54 utc | 120

Israel was a creation of the British. (Who loved to divide and conquer, and terrorise, a perennial Modus Operandi, leaving a mess behind.)
The USA took up the mantle, and the tiny, murderous, genocidal patch, is entirely supported by the USuk, with craven support from Europe (+ other.)
It was set up to be so by the outside powers. Look for ex. at the Settlers in the W. Bank (many of whom are USA-ers) just going around shooting Arabs (now called Palestinians) and taking over their homes, while being supported, defended by the Isr. forces.
I mention this because maybe ppl can relate to this barbarity – how they might feel in that situation – while the smokescreen of WAR on terrorists and HAMAS and so on covers up the genocide in Gaza. (?)
Zionists and nasty weak ppl on the take in Isr. were / are accepted, encouraged, and directly and indirectly paid to ‘hold the ground.’
Much the same happened in URK.
Who funded the Banderists – the Neo-Nazis? Did 2014 happen because of the grass-roots? No way. See also the Orange color revolution, 2004. These groups were supported from outside the country financially and in other ways. For sure.

Posted by: Noirette | Aug 12 2025 16:04 utc | 121

see the 2:29 video at the second link
https://x.com/ejmalrai/status/1955239283398254688
Elijah J. Magnier 🇪🇺 @ejmalrai
It is meaningless to condemn Benjamin Netanyahu’s crimes without naming his full partner: the Donald Trump administration.
Israel could not commit daily war crimes — and openly boast about them — without Washington’s explicit blessing. Trump’s White House doesn’t just turn a blind eye; it hands Netanyahu the political cover and green light he needs to act with impunity.
https://x.com/iwasnevrhere_/status/1954202716516811136
Thomas Keith @iwasnevrhere_
In 1999, British Gas estimated 1.1 trillion cubic feet of natural gas and 1.7 billion barrels of oil off Gaza’s coast. Palestinians have seen none of it.
If Israel fully seizes Gaza, depopulates it, and annexes it, it takes the resources. Just like it already did with the West Bank’s Meged field.
This is textbook colonialism: seize the land, strip the resources, leave the indigenous population with nothing. The same playbook used on Native Americans, push them to barren lands, dangle crumbs, lock them out of wealth.
In Gaza and the West Bank, ethnic cleansing is only one layer of the design, beneath it lies resource theft, executed through genocide and openly backed by Washington, London, Berlin, and other Western capitals.
And unless stopped, the “final solution” long envisioned by Zionism, the erasure of the Palestinian people, will be completed under the cover of war.
The shadow of this genocide will destroy Zionism itself. But only if the world wakes up, fights the system enabling it, and exposes the governments complicit in every airstrike, blockade, and stolen barrel.

Posted by: michaelj72 | Aug 12 2025 22:00 utc | 122

The following are four tributes written by Journalist Youssef Fares to those recently martyred that he knew. All text is quoted:

Posted by: Ornot | Aug 12 2025 23:37 utc | 123

Every time I met Anas, I wished to myself that the war would end and he would be well, that God would grant him a life in which he would reap glory worthy of his great deeds, that he would live a long life, travel, and tell our story to the whole world. Anas is the son of my country, Ashkelon – Majdal, and the son of Jabalia camp. He grew up throughout the war before our eyes. We loved him, spoiled him, and worried about him. If we could, we would have hidden him behind the curtains of our eyes. If we could, we would have surrounded him with the cloak of our hearts. If we could, we would have exchanged our lives for him!
Do you know what it means for a son of our people to grow up, then mature and become a father to us, to worry about us, to carry our concerns as if we were his small family and his close family? This was the story of Anas and Gaza.
We were unable to protect him, and life did not fulfill a single wish for us. We wished that he would only live, to witness the end of the massacre. Is there no end for our heroes other than death? What injustice and oppression is this?
Farewell, Anas, the voice of Gaza and its simple, kind, and gentle image.
Farewell, son of the land, clay, and soil, soul of the green grass.
Journalist Yousef Fares – Gaza – Palestine
https://t.me/youseffares19/85266

Posted by: Ornot | Aug 12 2025 23:38 utc | 124

Mohammed Al-Khalidi, the lighthearted, hardworking colleague who made his own living from nothing, was active in producing distinctive personal content years before the war, in which he made his mark with the beauty of his soul. During the genocide, he presented carefully researched material and stories, maintaining a remarkable engagement with the concerns of the outside world and the issues that preoccupy them, comparing them to our concerns and problems. Mohammed was an example of life, living it despite its harshness, mocking collective calamities to overcome them… May God have mercy on you, lovely man.
Journalist Yousef Fares – Gaza – Palestine
https://t.me/youseffares19/85276

Posted by: Ornot | Aug 12 2025 23:39 utc | 125

We share a long friendship, affection, and relationship with the Nofal family. ‘Uncle Riyad’ , a kind, balanced and generous man, and also a creative photographer, lost everything in this war. The machine of destruction destroyed his home, before he lost his eldest son, Omar, then his wife a month ago, and then his son, Mohammed “Abu Yahya,” yesterday. This is a test that transcends patience, endurance, and the resolve of men. But the camp’s first photographer [Riyad Nofal is a photographer] remained as steadfast and proud as we knew him. He hand-lettered the names of his colleagues on their shrouds, including his son, “The Center of the Covenant.” We knew you before the war, Uncle, and we loved you, the noble Nofal family, but we came to know you even more during it. You loved life, and it loved you. You were honorable at the time, and when the comfort of life left you, your origins remained. May God bless you and may God reward you.
Journalist Yousef Fares – Gaza – Palestine
https://t.me/youseffares19/85277

Posted by: Ornot | Aug 12 2025 23:40 utc | 126

As for Mohammed Qreiqeh, who among us can hear his words while standing over the body of his mother “Nima” without his heart breaking: “My name is Mohammed Qreiqeh.. I am her only son.. My mother was a poor thing.. I knew her from her sleep.. Nima was a simple thing that was killed.”
I remember those words, interrupted by tears and crying, from a year ago, and when I used to meet Mohammed in Al-Shifa Hospital as he was leaving with his journalistic message from the same place where his mother was killed, I used to pity myself for what I felt towards him.
And above all this orphanhood and misery, Mohammed remained very well-mannered, respectful and humble, professional, eloquent and fluent in language. He carried an enviable voice, and a simplicity in himself and a sense of belonging to the simplicity of his good origins exciting in its purity.. In one of his posts, he told us about his trips on a donkey’s cart, and he said that he was proud of it because his father had one, and he told about his search for mallow, the poor man’s dish and provision.. And he talked a lot about “poor Nima”… He did not finish His stories, we will miss his beautiful voice and his captivating presence. We have lost a complete professional journalist and a human being like whom time does not often produce.
Journalist Youssef Fares – Gaza – Palestine
https://t.me/youseffares19/85279

Posted by: Ornot | Aug 12 2025 23:41 utc | 127

see the photo at the first link
https://x.com/MenchOsint/status/1955373815934095819
MenchOsint @MenchOsint
Activists in America found the home of John Akre, director of the @Gaza Humanitarian Fund” (GHF) and sprayed Death to the GHF.
https://x.com/caitoz/status/1955367798420672809
Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz
In the UK it’s illegal to write the words “Palestine” and “Action” next to each other on a piece of cardboard because someone put red paint on a plane to protest an active genocide.
https://x.com/LibyaLiberty/status/1955104720546042020
Hend Amry @LibyaLiberty
I don’t know, maybe a country committing a genocide doesn’t get to call its victims terrorists.
Maybe a country that starves and maims and terrorizes a nation doesn’t get the absolute authority to slap a terrorism label on any and all armed resistance to their atrocities……

Posted by: michaelj72 | Aug 13 2025 4:13 utc | 128

see the 11-second video at the link. the BBC is an absolute disgrace and clearly complicit in trying to cover up the vast array of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by israel during this Genocide and ethnic cleansing
https://x.com/Jonathan_K_Cook/status/1955061697779053044
Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook
More obscene “journalism” from BBC News. This is how it reports Israel murdering five journalists in Gaza:
“There’s the question of proportionality. Is it justified to kill five journalists when you were only targeting one?”.

Posted by: michaelj72 | Aug 13 2025 5:43 utc | 129

As for Mohammed Qreiqeh …
He did not finish His stories, we will miss his beautiful voice and his captivating presence. We have lost a complete professional journalist and a human being like whom time does not often produce.
Journalist Youssef Fares – Gaza – Palestine
Posted by: Ornot | Aug 12 2025 23:41 utc | 127
Journalist Youssef Fares is a poet and a gem. I say again – may he stay safe and live to see the liberation of his land that he and his so many murdered colleagues courageously defend by reporting the unspeakable reality on the ground.
Stay safe Youssef Fares !

Posted by: JB | Aug 13 2025 7:59 utc | 130

Echo the thanks to b for the most moving post and to all above for the commentary….

Posted by: PassionateProgressiv | Aug 13 2025 13:17 utc | 131

US defers to Israel on killing of journalists.
From Arab News.
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2611650/world
“Al Jazeera said four other employees — correspondent Mohammed Qreiqeh and cameramen Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal and Moamen Aliwa — were also killed when the strike hit a tent set up for journalists outside the main gate of Al-Shifa Hospital.
The United States on Tuesday declined to criticize Israel over the killing of five Al Jazeera journalists in the Gaza Strip, referring questions to its ally.”

Posted by: Noirette | Aug 13 2025 15:16 utc | 132

Very difficult to read, as a father I am crying for these kids.
Re: Aleph_Null | Aug 11 2025 8:20 utc | 11
“Today there are pro-Zionists and anti-Zionists, and that’s about it, from my point of view.”
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I understand your point of view, I appreciate Johnstone, such horror forces one to take position, this is a moral imperative.
However, this positionning cannot be manichaean, cannnot paint everything in dark and light, and erase humanity in so doing. Calls for nuclear bombs on Israel such as some we read on this thread are equally monstruous.
I would strongly caution against the not-with-me-then-against-me mindset, it’s the zeroth degree at the root of fascism, the stance that negates innocence as Camus wrote, the stance from which the dehumanisation of others start. A good remedy against that is to reread Anas’ last message and look into the eyes of his kids in the pic.

Posted by: htyul | Aug 13 2025 16:06 utc | 133

If this letter does not embody the essence of Grace and Humanity, I don’t know what does….

Posted by: Allen | Aug 13 2025 19:04 utc | 134

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