The fears of a blackout of the total media in Gaza intensify as the death tolls of journalists surpasses 180

On Wednesday, an X account belonging to Anas Al-Sharif, a Palestinian journalist with more than half a million followers, announced A new mission: to be “the voice of Gaza resisting extermination, injustice and betrayal … to maintain ongoing coverage.”

Four days before, Israel’s army had attacked and killed Al-Sharif, a correspondent from Al Jazeera, in a strike of unmanned planes. Five other reporters also died on the strike, pushing the number of deaths among Palestinian journalists since the beginning of the Israeli offensive backed by the United States in Gaza above 180. Their deaths have stimulated global conviction and concern for Israel that limits what the world knows about Gaza, where he is preparing to expand his campaign and where international journalists have not allowed freely informing freely during the war of almost two years, and new calls to avoid a total means of the media.

Al-Sharif “lived and died in Palestine, remaining firm against the attack of rockets with resolution and dedication to unwavering truth and to inform the struggles and suffering of their people,” says the message X. suggests that their accounts, which potentially include their Instagram profile with almost 2 million followers, are now being directed by people who entrust them to guarantee that the experiences of their community continue to continue their community. documented.

But the murder of Al-Sharif points out how the global failure to respond to the repeated murders of Israel of Palestinian journalists has made it difficult to continue covering Gaza. Now, the war is potentially entering its darkest period, with Palestinians who experience unprecedented hunger and more than one million facing another displacement due to Israeli military plans.

The military and diplomatic support of the United States to Israel gives the greatest potential leverage on Tel Aviv. Al-Sharif was possibly the best known reporter who still worked at the strip.

“If Israel can kill the most prominent Gazan journalist, then he can kill anyone. The world needs to see these mortal attacks against journalists within Gaza, as well as his censorship of journalists in Israel and the West Bank argued In a statement.

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Israeli officials claim that Al-Sharif was a fighter for the Palestinian militant group Hamas, whose mortal assault to Israel from Gaza on October 7, 2023, began the current round of conflicts. After his murder, the Israeli Defense Forces (FDI) released The documents they said demonstrated the statement: they suggested that Al-Sharif joined in 2013 and was promoted in 2019, received a Hamas salary in 2023 and was included in a telephone record for one of the group’s brigades.

The IDF also said that some of the other journalists in the group were militants without providing evidence or details about what it meant. He has also suggested controversial that the Jazeera as a whole must be treated as pro-hamas; Both the channel and Al-Sharif themselves have strongly denied that it was part of the group, while observers have noticed that many Israel and other nations journalists have been involved in military activity.

Annelle Sheldo, former official at the State Department of Human Rights office, said Israel had demonstrated a pattern: “The officials would come out and make it clear that they had marked a particular journalist and claiming that they were a terrorist … and then in a matter of weeks or, sometimes, the days would point to that journalist and somehow kill them.”

She linked the Israeli approach to the failure of the United States to rebuke the IDF on their past targeting of reporters, including an American citizen, Shireen Abu Akleh, in 2022. The IDF offered changing explanations for the murder of Abu Akleh, first affirming that he was hit by Palesty fighters that the incident was suggested accidental; The Israelis were not responsible, as has been the case of many murders of the FDI journalists. American officials finally supported the Israeli narrative despite the fact that the US person who investigated the site believed that the shooting was intentional, according to a recent documentary of Zeteo.

“The Biden administration did nothing,” said Sheline. He worked in the State Department under President Joe Biden, who initiated enormous military support from the United States for the Israel War in Gaza, and told News themezone that he recalled the concern among officials when the spokesman for the State Department diverted the repeated questions of US journalists about the growing victims among his Palestinian colleagues.

Shelline finally renounced the Biden administration. Now, a member of the group of experts from the State Institute of the Quincy Institute, he told News themezone that the pattern of continuous impunity for Israel “is particularly crazy 7 for the 7 of the prisoners of Palestinian.

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“He knows how to do it … So then return to this Biden posture of [claiming] “We are working tirelessly for a high fire” is shit, “said Sheldo.” Much of what Trump is doing is more extreme, especially after going after dissent [against the war] For example, but many of those patterns began under Biden. “

The Trump administration seems flipped for the murder of Al-Sharif, with the spokesman for the State Department Tammy Bruce narration The journalists this week discussed the matter with Israel and doubled about the suggestion of the Palestinian reporters who can be combatants of disguised Hamas. (She did not approach why they would repeatedly transmit her exact locations; Trump recently promoted Bruce to be an attached ambassador of the United States to the United Nations). The State published its annual human rights reports this week for countries around the world. The section on Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories largely diverted the responsibility of violence there far from the Israelis and the suggested incidents of bloodshed are exceptional.

“During the Biden and Trump administrations, the Israeli government has crossed all the imaginable lines in Gaza with impunity because the United States government has repeatedly refused to hold the Israeli army responsible,” said John Ramming Chappell at the Civil Center in conflict to News themezone. “Every day, the complicity of us in atrocities is deepened.”

Israel never, for example, has faced an American reprimand under the so -called Leahy laws, the statutes destined to prevent foreign partners from committing the main abuse of human rights that have been applied to other nations near Washington.

American awareness about their role in worsening the conditions in Gaza seems to be growing, with a record number of senators vote On July 31 to block the additional American weapons for Israel. Mohammed Khaleel, an American doctor who currently offered as a volunteer in a hospital in the city of Gaza, where Al-Sharif was killed, told News themezone that he constantly feels a sense of guilt.

“One of our colleagues said: ‘You are here helping, but you return home and pay your taxes for the bombs,” he said. Khaleel described how “a gloomy attitude survived everyone”, since they found out about the murder of Al-Sharif, seeing it as eliminating a key source of information about developments in the city and a precursor to the largest Israeli attacks.

Khaleel, on his third visit to Gaza in the middle of the war, said that his Palestinian colleagues had “lost so much weight” and were exhausted, particularly fearful among help search engines regularly when approaching a new help system supported by US and Israeli governments.

“Things got worse, but they are patient to endure it. They don’t have much they can do differently,” Khaleel told News themezone of the Palestinians who live in the conflict.