Article British premier 'gravely concerned' over targeting of journalists in Gaza

[Magical Realist]

Don't have to be the originator if the charge is "abetting terrorist propaganda." See? This is what happens when you pull ad hoc moral laws out your ass. They start to fall apart upon analysis..

[Syne]

You think reporting on a crime is abetting the criminal?
Assuming the reporters don't know it's propaganda, only the person who fabricates the lies is abetting. Abetting requires intent.

So another thing in the very long and constantly lengthening list of things you don't understand shit about.

[Magical Realist]

You think reporting on a crime is abetting the criminal?

LOL You're the one that justified the killing of journalists for the crime of "abetting terrorist propaganda". Are you now reversing your argument?

[Syne]

You think reporting on a crime is abetting the criminal?

LOL You're the one that justified the killing of journalists for the crime of "abetting terrorist propaganda". Are you now reversing your argument?

I already told you that this "journalist" was originating propaganda.

Earlier today, Gaza-based photojournalist Anas Al-Sharif wrote in Telegram & WhatsApp feeds that a Palestinian rocket misfired & hit a house in Jabaliya. 7 Palestinians, including 4 children, were killed. Pressured by his followers, he recanted & spread a blood libel blaming Israeli airstrikes. Now, Israeli footage is confirming what he said originally: the Palestinian Islamic Jihad murdered its own. - https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cg8kJ8-NwIc/

Again, he was celebrating as civilian women and children were being slaughtered:

On the very day that Hamas and fellow Palestinian civilians slaughtered more than 1200 Israelis, raping women and brutalizing infants, al-Sharif posted on Telegram: “9 hours and the heroes are still roaming the country killing and capturing … God, God, how great you are ❤️❤️❤️”

[Magical Realist]

Wow...all from some anonymous instagram poster. Yeah..that's a real reliable source.

"Anas al-Sharif knew that far from offering protection amid the slaughter in Gaza, his press credentials further endangered him. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) warned last month of acute danger to the 28-year-old’s life as the Israel Defense Forces stepped up online attacks on him. These were not merely smears, but a death threat in response to his coverage, the Al Jazeera reporter said. And now he is dead, one of five media workers killed in an airstrike on Sunday.

The CPJ says that more than 180 Palestinian journalists and media workers have been killed in almost two years of war – more than the number who have died globally in the previous three years. This does not merely reflect Gaza’s vast death toll – 61,599, most of them women and children, according to the health ministry and many more if independent experts are correct. Nor does it merely reflect the courage shown by reporters, photographers, camera operators and others in a war zone. The CPJ says 26 of the reporters were targeted.

Israeli officials have bragged of killing Mr Sharif, whom they have claimed was the head of a Hamas terrorist cell, planning rocket attacks against Israeli civilians. Mr Sharif and Al Jazeera had already denied this. It would surely be hard for such a prominent figure to combine reporting with command of such a unit. The documents offered up by Israel as evidence end two years before the war began, and were reportedly screen grabs of electronic spreadsheets, not independently verified.

Israeli officials have repeatedly offered wildly misleading and rapidly shifting accounts of events, including the killing of paramedics in Gaza this spring. In 2023, an IDF general reportedly told American officials within hours that one of its soldiers had probably shot dead the acclaimed Palestinian-American Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in the occupied West Bank – but Israeli officials insisted publicly that Palestinian militants were to blame. No justification has even been attempted for the deaths of Mr Sharif’s colleagues.

Mr Sharif’s 90-year-old father was killed in an airstrike on their home in late 2023, after Israeli military officials called the journalist telling him to stop reporting and leave Gaza. Israeli claims that he was a Hamas fighter resurfaced last month after his emotional reporting on starvation went viral. He was killed as outrage mounted over Gaza’s famine and shortly after Israel announced its plan to launch a ground offensive in Gaza City, which would only deepen the catastrophe and is reportedly opposed by many in the military too. The deaths of the Al Jazeera team in the city ensure few are left to bear witness to what unfolds. International correspondents are unable to enter Gaza except on escorted military trips during which they cannot speak to Palestinians.

Sheltered by the US, Israel’s government appears unmoved as international public opinion turns against it and even staunch allies blench at the horrors of Gaza. The Al Jazeera killings have been widely and rightly condemned. The Reporters sans Frontières group has also urged the international criminal court to investigate the treatment of media workers.

“If these words reach you, know that Israel has succeeded in killing me and silencing my voice,” Mr Sharif wrote in a posthumously published statement. Deliberately targeting journalists is a war crime: an assault not only on the person, but on truth itself. Yet it cannot disguise Israel’s other atrocities. Rather, it adds to the charge sheet against its leaders."---- https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...-witnesses

[Syne]

Wow...all from some anonymous instagram poster. Yeah..that's a real reliable source.

You're such an intellectually dishonest chickshit that you take potshots at that but completely ignore the guy's own social media posts, celebrating civilian women and children being slaughtered:

The Media Refuse To Report Critical Details Surrounding Palestinian Journalist Killed By Israel

On the very day that Hamas and fellow Palestinian civilians slaughtered more than 1200 Israelis, raping women and brutalizing infants, al-Sharif posted on Telegram: “9 hours and the heroes are still roaming the country killing and capturing … God, God, how great you are ❤️❤️❤️”

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[Magical Realist]

Killing people for what they've allegedly said on Twitter? Has it come to that?

[Syne]

Abetting terrorists through a constant stream of propaganda lies.

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Key takeaways:

Israel targeted Al Jazeera’s Anas al-Sharif in Gaza and provided evidence of his Hamas affiliation.
Media demonized Israel by omitting or doubting the evidence, while parroting Al Jazeera’s claims.
Media betrayed their mission and enabled terrorism under the guise of journalism.

Outrageous reporting this week enabled terrorism to hide behind the mask of journalism, portraying an Al Jazeera reporter targeted by Israel in Gaza as a heroic figure. In reality, it was a sea of lies that ignored clear evidence he was, in fact, a member of Hamas.

Almost all foreign media outlets mourned the death of Anas al-Sharif in an IDF strike on Monday (August 12), while doubting or altogether omitting hard evidence presented by the IDF proving that he was a commander of a terrorist cell in a Hamas guided rockets platoon.

The IDF presented an internal Hamas document where al-Sharif was registered as a soldier and team commander, as well as a photo showing him embraced by former Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, the mastermind of the October 7, 2023, attack against Israel.
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On social media network X, Sky News also posted a story quoting Al Jazeera’s condemnation of Al Sharif’s “assassination.” The network did not respond when Israeli former hostage Shlomi Ziv commented: “I was held by a journalist in captivity and his father was a Doctor!!!!!!!”
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AP simply lied, saying that Israel said “without producing evidence that al-Sharif had led a Hamas cell. It was a claim the news organization and al-Sharif had denied” — as if a denial is a clear-cut refutation of hard evidence.

Reuters did the same, saying Israel did not disclose any evidence.

And instead of headlines such as “IDF kills Hamas terror cell leader posing as ‘Al Jazeera’ journalist,” both agencies’ headlines were one-sided. They took the Palestinian narrative that Israel targets journalists as gospel, even though this narrative is based on the Qatari-funded network that supports Hamas and the denial that its worker has been exposed as a terrorist
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Nowhere did The Times display al-Sharif’s photo with Sinwar or the documents showing his Hamas affiliation.

This evidence was also omitted from a Washington Post headline and sub-header that made Israel look like it deliberately targets journalists
- https://honestreporting.com/gaza-journal...-evidence/

[Magical Realist]

Abetting terrorists through a constant stream of propaganda lies.

Oh..so what happened to the right to one's own opinion and speaking it? Are you suggesting a new totalitarian state where people get routinely executed for their beliefs and opinions? One man's terrorism is after all another man's revolution.

[Syne]

Abetting terrorists through a constant stream of propaganda lies.

Oh..so what happened to the right to one's own opinion and speaking it? Are you suggesting a new totalitarian state where people get routinely executed for their beliefs and opinions? One man's terrorism afterall is another man's revolution.

Those were not expressed as opinion. They where reported as "facts."
But I suspect you don't understand the difference.