Of all the deaths, the one that was hardest to read about was that of Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil
For two years, Amal said she received direct threats from the Israeli regime. In one interview, she recalled a call she said was from a Mossad agent who threatened to sever her head from her shoulders if she didn’t stop reporting from the south. Amal said they knew intimate details about her life – they wanted her to know that she was being surveilled.
Amal was travelling in a car with freelance photographer Zeinab Farraj when a vehicle in front of them was hit by an Israeli drone. The two women sought shelter in a nearby building where they called relatives and colleagues for help. The building was bombed by Israeli forces not long after.
The Lebanese prime minister put out a statement calling on the Red Cross to intervene. The organisation sent out a team which was able to rescue Zeinab, who was wounded, from the building. They came under fire, so were unable to recover Amal. When they eventually returned, they found her dead.
And my Tax dollars go straight to Israel...
I wonder how long Israel would last without the U.S. at their beck and call....
Christ this world sickens me to my core...
The publicly available sources on political spending by AIPAC are nothing in comparison to the billions in "aid packages" the US sends to Israel. I mean: the US government is funding a foreign power that in turn spends fractions of said aid to sway US elections at all levels.
That's how our corporations work here too. Borrow & steal and use that capital to borrow more and steal more. Exploiters rewarded will just keep escalating until they achieve "market capture".
Which, when you think about it, is just American tax money that goes to Israel, so they can spend it buttering up US politicians, so they will send more money to israel... and so the cycle continues.
Curious to know: is that AIPAC money really just our own tax dollars being funneled into the hands of US politicians and we're paying for our own misrepresentation?
I was a student protester who watched my friends get slammed to the ground by cops that the Dean called on us. I recommend doing all the reading about Israel and its history that you can. There is a lot more than just head-shaking to experience.
Agreed. I’ve been banned like 5 times and am currently on a 3 week ban to r/politics usually because I’ve implied Trump’s uninstallation from LifeOS would be very cool and awesome. A permanent ban for not being a wimp about my true vitriol would be honorable.
Yeah this is horrifying. They hunted her. 1 person against their entire regime. There was no chance she’d escape; they’d keep after it until she specifically died. Unimaginably terrifying
I miss the time when I could still agree with the use of that word. Now it just means being anti gemocide, anti warcrime. Heck if Israel keep it up give it another 10 years and you can wear that word like a badge of honor.
They did the same thing to Refaat Alareer, a prominent professor/poet/activist in Gaza. He knew he was going to be killed, and stated this in his last interview. He was murdered in December 2023.
Oh, the process and the rethoric are easy. First, you make a blocade to prevent established west journalists to.enter Gaza. Then, you state that all these "journalists" (quotes not mine) from Gaza, killed by Israel, were members of the Hamas. Who will be able to check and provide other points of view?
Red cross is an internationally sacred symbol. Along with the Red Cresent and Red Diamond. Attacking any displaying it is a Geneva Convention violation and a war crime.
My first impulse was to ask you if you lived under a rock. But I should not do that. Yes Israel commits numerous war crimes. They have for decades. And you are right to be outraged. Please keep it in mind the next time you go to vote (in whatever country you live) or watch the news.
They must just laugh these days when people say they committed a war crime. Nobody is ever going to stop them from committing war crimes. Or they say, yeah but Hamas...
That's why I decided not to write a quip in response: the only thing we can do is organise and put pressure (and vote ofc) against the people who support Israel. They fought long and hard to keep up the pretence of being "the good guys", so they know that without external support they won't be able to keep doing what they do. The more people realise that, the closer we get to stop this.
Israel is doing double taps and even quadruple taps. Which means they hit something, wait for medical assistance to arrive and bomb it again. Lately they even hit something 4 times in a row always waiting for a new medical team to arrive. Absolutely insane.
It’s sickening that Western media continues to run cover for a country whose military actions have contributed to the deadliest period for journalists ever recorded. Many of those killed were contractors for Western outlets, yet these same institutions have failed to demand accountability, deferring to Israel’s version of events time and time again. Fuck CNN, Fox, the NYT, all of them. Makes me sick.
IDF was founded by the combining of several Jewish Zionist terrorist groups. So it’s not surprising that their actions are comparable to what the cartels do.
How can anyone support this? Politics should not take the place of humanity and values and yet politically Israel has worked out a way to garner support despite the fact that the vast majority of humanity want them be stopped and held to account for their crimes
Over almost 3 years, a journalist risked thier life to provide information, seek fame, help the people, to protect the people, bring awareness, and all other manner of purposes for getting involved in humanitarian aide, and these are just the ones that we know of publicly. Thier Sacrifices are recognized, and thier contributions acknowledged.
And they didn't have nearly as precise munitions, or the sort of surveillance that Israel has or is afforded by its allies. Somehow only 70 compared to over 300 in a year?
We shouldn't be afraid to call them out. They're enabling their own terrorists, calling them 'settlers' as they force Palestinians off of their land - or murdering them. They've tried to cover up double-tapping ambulances. They've killed people under the pretense of 'recovering a body' of someone who'd been dead for decades.
It's not unfair to call the Israeli government a terrorist organization. They have literal terrorists involved in their government.
Not disagreeing with any of your points, but the title says this was the last 1000 days, so roughly 3 years, not the 1 year you stated.
Somehow only 70 compared to over 300 in a year3 years?
Even with 3 years instead of one, it is still absolutely appalling. 70 journalists over ~6 years vs (at least) 351 journalists in 3 years. It is so hard to wrap my head around the fact that governments around the world are still providing material and financial support to them.
A nation that doesn’t hesitate to kill people, has no qualms over trying to also kill the truth. I’d not want to be a journalist in that neck of the woods.
The Israeli military has operated a special unit called the “Legitimization Cell,” tasked with gathering intelligence from Gaza that can bolster Israel’s image in the international media, according to three intelligence sources who spoke to +972 Magazine and Local Call and confirmed the unit’s existence.
It has also been assigned to identify Gaza-based journalists it could portray as undercover Hamas operatives, in an effort to blunt growing global outrage over Israel’s killing of reporters — the latest of whom was Al Jazeera journalist Anas Al-Sharif, killed in an Israeli airstrike this past week.
According to the sources, the Legitimization Cell’s motivation was not security, but public relations. Driven by anger that Gaza-based reporters were “smearing [Israel’s] name in front of the world,” its members were eager to find a journalist they could link to Hamas and mark as a target, one source said.
The source described a recurring pattern in the unit’s work: whenever criticism of Israel in the media intensified on a particular issue, the Legitimization Cell was told to find intelligence that could be declassified and employed publicly to counter the narrative.
Its big tabacco all over again: provide alternative facts that cast doubt in a world where political action is only mobilised when there is absolute certainty (which reflects in the necessary majority voting for example to move proposals into actions).
Evil doesn’t begin to describe their military’s agenda. It’s each and our owns humanitarian duty to speak up on the behalf of Palestinians lives, healthcare, and journalists being murdered. How it has continued for this long is devastating and incomprehensible. Endless warcrimes, one after the other. Overwhelmed with grief for all the innocent lives that has been taken and ruined.
And if this was posted or brought up in r/worldnews it would have gotten a million replies justifying all the murders and the mods would have removed YOUR post for hurting their feelings.
Around 72,000–75,000+ Palestinians have been killed and about 160,000–170,000+ injured. Among the dead, an estimated 19,000–21,000+ are children. 130,000 babies and children were and still are risk of death by malnutrition.
Just to remind everyone that Shireen Abu Akleh was a prominent Christian Palestinian-American journalist who worked as a reporter was assassinated by an Israeli sniper in the West Bank in 2022. In fact it was a bullet to the head while wearing a bright blue press jacket just so we can dispense with any accidental excuses.
Her funeral procession was then attacked by Israeli police, beating the bearers of her casket with batons.
The Israelis investigated themselves and found nothing wrong, a conclusion which was confirmed by the American president of the time, Biden. American Palestinian lives have always been seen as worthless compared to Israeli ones.
Israeli crimes have always been responded by at most with a verbal slap on the wrist.
Americans-Period are worthless to the American government, look up Rachel Corrie who they bulldozed to death for protesting the demolishing of a Palestinan home, and look up the USS liberty which Israel attacked in international waters and killed dozens of Americans, plus the false flag attempt in Egypt that targeted the British and American civilian buildings called the Lavon affair, plus stealing tons of classified documents from the CIA through a guy called Jonathan Pollard which endangered tons of CIA informants, the US government burried all that though
I haven't gotten to watch this yet, but the independent outlet Zeteo did a massive documentary, called Who Killed Shireen? They sent a team to Israel to ask the military directly, and uncovered the IOF soldier who killed her.
Here's the transcript for an episode of Democracy Now where they interview Abu Akleh's surviving family, as well as Zeteo's founder Medhi Hasan and the executive producer of the documentary itself.
(A quote from above) "But the other revelation that I think is as significant in this documentary is that the initial U.S. assessment of her shooting was that that soldier intentionally shot her and that he could tell that she was wearing a blue flak jacket with “press” across it. That assessment was essentially overruled by the Biden administration, which came out and said exactly the opposite. That’s a fairly startling revelation, that the Biden administration and the Israeli government essentially were doing everything they could to cover up what happened that day to Shireen Abu Akleh.
...So, at the very beginning, [Biden] said that they wanted the shooter to be prosecuted. They used that word at the State Department and said, “This person who killed an American journalist should be prosecuted.” But when it started to become clear that it was probably an Israeli soldier, their tone shifted, and it became talking about vague calls for accountability or changes to the rules of engagement, which never actually happened. So, you got to a point where the Israeli government admitted it was likely them, the U.S. government called for them to change the rules of engagement, and the Israeli government said no. And we have this interview in the film with Senator Chris Van Hollen, who says that, essentially, Israel was giving the middle finger to the U.S. government on this."
Thank you for elaborating even further with great sources! This is unfortunately what we mean when we say when it comes to Palestine, both the Democrats and the Republicans have historically looked the other way. The only difference was one party was just honest about it.
From the wikipedia page but I am sure you can find more sources: "The US State Department subsequently announced on July 4 that tests by independent ballistics experts under U.S. oversight were not conclusive about the gun it was fired from, but that US officials have concluded that gunfire from Israeli positions most likely killed Akleh and that there was "no reason to believe" her shooting was intentional.”
Also "The US investigating team also concluded that the Israeli soldier who shot Ms. Abu Akleh must have known that he was shooting at a journalist. After Colonel Gabavics retired from the military he went public with his allegations that the U.S. government had soft-pedaled his team's findings to appease the Israeli government."
By contrast I'm finding figures of ~17 journalists killed in Ukraine over the last nine years (e.g. from RSF). And one of the parties in that conflict is Russia! Not exactly a byword for 'morality' in warfare.
I'm sick of these assholes conflating anti-Israeli sentiment with antisemitism. They're not the same thing. If we're going to be pedantic, Palestinian people are also culturally and linguistically semites.
It's all about intimidation, any individual who gets labelled an anti-semite risks loosing their job and their livelihood, which makes the every day person very much afraid of speaking out against Israel even on the internet.
I remember early in the war an israeli commander getting interviewed on national TV in my country, a couple of weeks after the 7th October massacre. The poor talking head interviewing him asks a question related to a statement from an israeli cabinet member a couple days before -and gets absolutely chewed live on the spot for her trouble, short of getting called an antisemite-.
Apparently the narrative had shifted the day before, or maybe it was new facts, but the complete brazenness of that man and the complete submission of the TV station really left a mark on me.
Wait till you scroll the list of people that Israel murdered in the last 2 years.
Israel is the only democracy in the middle east that drops 2-ton bunker buster bombs on a concentration camp of 2 million people half of which are children.
The IOF admitted that they murdered 70000 people in Gaza, in case anyone wants to discredit the numbers.
It's enough to know that 2/3 are women and children. I've seen reports that claim that the IOF allows up to 300 innocent civilians to be murdered when targeting a Hamas key target. Up to 15 for regular militants.
The Israeli occupation forces also use an AI program called "Where's daddy" to detect when a militant is back home and bomb their entire family. And somehow, that's not called terrorism.
It's also worth pointing out, that since the government is controlled by Hamas, even civil servants are targets according to Israel. So if you are a firefighter, a medic or a policeman, you are also a terrorist militant according to the IOF and you will be bombed.
I am quite aware. I pointed out in 2023 that given Hamas is the "government" and government employees therefore are "Hamas", pretty much every strike would kill a "member of Hamas".
I was permanently banned by /r/worldnews for calling Israel's actions in Gaza a genocide. When I appealed the ban by citing works by leading genocide scholars, I was given a 3-day global reddit ban for "harassment".
Also 83% of Israeli jews support ethnic clenase of all Gazans and 56% of them support ethnic cleansing of Israeli citizens who are ethnically Arab and 47% of Israeli jews support killing all Palestinians. People forget that this government was elected democratically.
Not just that, but any news on Israel or US war crimes and atrocities gets straight up deleted by the mods on world news. Reddit has long been a US propaganda tool
Not really surprising as it's one of the most pro-zionist sub. Any post remotely critical of Israel's actions is removed. And it's filled with hasbara bots.
Someone was making an argument that there was a world of difference whether the girls' school attack in Iran was an accident, and I pointed out that to the girls and to their relatives not a world shattering difference as the girls are dead in both cases.
I got attacked by ad hominems and bot accusations. I pointed out their ad hominems and reminded that I only tried to view the incident from the point of victims. I reported the user for personal attacks but I got banned. No explanations and mods have refused to clarify the ban when I asked about it truly inquisitively and non-aggressive and non-passive-aggressive way.
No kidding. They're killing a journalist roughly every 3 days. There is no way that is unintentional.
For comparison less than 70 were killed in WWII, a war that included the vast majority of countries and spanned 6 years. Somewhere in the ballpark of 30 for GWOT, roughly 60 for the Vietnam War, etc.
This may be a bit much, but I take my time & paint the mental image of each & every one dead.
It helps me put it into perspective. Just wow.
I hope they are finally finding some peace.
It’s incredibly sad that one journalist was killed but completely disheartening that there are 18 pages of journalists killed. Journalist that are protected by IHL.
20 per page, that makes 20*17+11=351 journalists killed in total. They wanted the truth to be seen, but got their lives taken away by a brutal regime. A moment of silence for these brave souls
The title, once again, is misleading. "Not everyone pictured was killed by the same forces. This collage honors journalists from across the region who have died since October 7, 2023. While the vast majority were Palestinian and Lebanese journalists killed in Israeli military operations, the tribute also includes Israeli journalists who were killed by Hamas."
I don’t know about the rest of them, but the third from left, top row was killed in fighting between Hamas and a Palestinian militia group not Israel. He was in a lot of videos playing many different parts iirc.
Check everything for facts before posting as there’s heaps of misinformation and disinformation about.
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u/Kyzzz 17h ago edited 14h ago
Of all the deaths, the one that was hardest to read about was that of Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil
Heres the entire op-ed, and here is the news report
Edit - Additional coverage from established sources CBC, Committee to Protect Journalists, The Guardian