The Occupier and the Disturbed: "Assassination of Anas Al-Sharif and Burying the Truth in Gaza"

In an era where the truth is slaughtered live on air and an entire city is obliterated before the world's cameras, one of the most horrific images of modern complicity is revealed: the silence of the media, the absence of religious elites, and the negligence of institutions that are supposed to guard human dignity.

In a time where the lens becomes a witness to the crime, its owner becomes the primary target. Thus, the occupation decided to assassinate journalist Anas Al-Sharif, not because he wields a weapon, but because he carries the truth. In a scene where the barbarism of power intersects with the terror of the word, the disturbed occupier fired his bullet at both sound and image, in a desperate attempt to silence the remaining witnesses to the genocide.

On this land, there is much that deserves life, but how can we live if death has become daily bread, crime an ordinary scene, and silence an official stance? What is happening in Gaza today is not just genocide, but a re-production of the colonial Western past, a cleansing of a present that disturbs them, and a future that frightens them. Yet, at the same time, it is a moment of revelation... and birth.

The assassination of Anas was not an isolated incident, but a continuation of a systematic policy that seeks to kill the truth and bury it under the rubble of Gaza. The world watches, sighs, and then falls silent. A silence that legitimizes murder and justifies crimes. In contrast, the question rises: who kills journalists? And why now?

In this article, we delve into the backgrounds of the crime, its political and military contexts, questioning the stances of regimes, international organizations, and the role of the media, and revealing how free journalism becomes a military target in a war of genocide, while the world's conscience relaxes, and public opinion is numbed by painkillers of statements.

Axis One: Journalists as Permanent Victims of Modern Wars
Statistics from "Reporters Without Borders" show that more than 100 Palestinian journalists have been martyred in the Gaza war since October 7, 2023, in the largest organized massacre against press freedom since World War II. Anas Al-Sharif was killed after his face became known on screens, carrying scenes of destruction and blood. This incident reminds us of the assassination of Shireen Abu Akleh, and before her, the journalists from the Balkans, Ukraine, and Lebanon.

Axis Two: The Assassination of Anas Al-Sharif as a Model - A Field and Political Message 
The assassination of Anas came as the occupation prepared to invade the city of Gaza. The goal is not just to kill an influential voice, but to conceal the impending truth: a comprehensive ethnic cleansing and a collective massacre in full view of the world. The crime was not committed in secret, but before the cameras, to say to Israel: "We will kill the witnesses first, then we will complete the massacre.”

Axis Three: Resounding International Silence and Official Political Complicity 
The international community has only issued timid condemnation statements. The International Criminal Court has not been activated, and arms supplies have not been banned. How do we explain this? Simply, it is a double standard. In Ukraine, the killing of a journalist sparks an uproar, while in Gaza, the assassination of over 100 journalists does not merit a serious emergency session.

Axis Four: Arabs Between Silence, Betrayal, and "Fatwas" of Obedience
The official Arab scene is paralyzed. Some regimes did not stop at silence, but actively conspired. Attempts to suffocate the resistance, demonize it, and bargain for a "safe" exit are a continuation of old peace agreements, just as some princes of Andalusia did with the Spanish, when they denied food to the besieged.

Religious leaders loyal to the political authority contributed to numbing the nation with fatwas of blind obedience and fighting any public movement or economic boycott.

The Arab regimes are blocking aid, closing crossings, and pressuring the resistance to accept surrender conditions. Some propagate through their media that the resistance is the cause of the tragedy; it is history repeating its betrayal.

Axis Five: Resistance Media Between Siege and Distortion 
Since the beginning of the war, the occupation has attempted to destroy the media structure in Gaza, bombing television headquarters and killing reporters. However, the paradox is that digital media and social media have surpassed official media. The scenes of Anas Al-Sharif and Mustafa Thabit illustrate this, as alternative media countered classic media; social media platforms broke the media blockade and outperformed the biased classic media. Footage of child martyrs and images of massacres turned every mobile phone into a live broadcast channel for the truth.

A report from the "Reuters Institute" in 2024 indicated a decline in public trust in traditional media to just 29%, while trust in independent sources on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube rose to 61%. Grassroots coverage on TikTok and YouTube breached the Zionist narrative and led to a loss of control; recent opinion polls from the "Pew" and "IPSOS" centers indicate a decline in support for the Israeli narrative in Europe and America by 30-40% among youth populations.

Axis Six: University Uprisings and the Birth of a New Global Conscience 
In the face of crimes, international activists have begun to launch symbolic courts for occupation leaders, placing their images in public squares in the West as war criminals.

Calls for trials of those who support the occupation financially or politically have begun to spread and transformed into organized campaigns demanding trials of prime ministers, defense ministers, and even leaders of arms companies.

What the rising generation in American and British universities has done through boycotts, sit-ins, and suspending partnerships with Israeli universities reflects a strategic shift in the balance of morals; a YouGov poll in June 2024 indicated that 65% of young Americans reject their country’s policies towards Gaza. This shift has not been recorded for decades. Ruling parties in Europe and America have seen their popularity decline, as occurred in elections in Britain and Italy, due to their biased positions.

Axis Seven: The Exposure of Western Hypocrisy and Human Rights Institutions 
The United Nations and institutions like Human Rights Watch have tried to issue reports, but they remained at the level of rhetoric, without sanctions or legal action. As for "war crimes" trials, these are opened only for the enemies of the West, not for its allies.

Axis Eight: The Failure of the Intelligence Project to Discredit Iran and the Resistance Axis
Neither sectarian smear campaigns nor the discourse of "manufactured Islam" have succeeded in diverting attention from the reality of the situation. The consciousness of the peoples has surpassed fatwas of takfir and betrayal, and has realized that the resistance axis – despite differing visions – is the only one that refuses to bow down.

Axis Nine: The Role of Journalists and International Unions 
Where are the press unions? Where are the bodies that protect journalists? What have the Arab media unions done? The media is no longer a transmitter but a participant in the conflict. International unions must act to prosecute occupation leaders for the assassination of journalists, just as they do to prosecute any other officials.

Axis Ten: A Call for Symbolic Popular Trials for Criminals 
Let the screens of the world be courtrooms, displaying the images of criminals from the occupation leaders, calling for their trial. Let every ruler who participated in suffocating Gaza, politically or financially, be exposed. Let digital campaigns begin to document the crimes with names and faces, to later transform them into legal files.

Conclusion 
Anas Al-Sharif was not killed just because he was a journalist, but because he was the last gateway of awareness for a city being obliterated before the world. His martyrdom is a clear declaration from the occupier: “We will kill the word before the human.” But what the occupier does not understand is that the word cannot be killed; it will rise again in a thousand voices and ignite a thousand lenses.
The occupation will not triumph with the camera turned off, nor with imposed silence. Because the truth, no matter how much it is assassinated, will rise again, in the face of the "disturbed occupier."