The Guardian: Israel Kills Journalists in Gaza so the World Doesn't See What it is Doing There

SadaNews - The British newspaper The Guardian revealed in its editorial a bleak picture of the genocide war in the Gaza Strip, considering it the most deadly for journalism and media in modern times, where at least 189 Palestinian journalists have been killed according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, including 5 in a single airstrike last week.

It stated that the number of casualties is doubling day by day, along with waves of outrage, noting that the Pope called on Israel - on Wednesday - to stop "collective punishment," and the following day, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that "the levels of death and destruction... are unprecedented in modern times."

The editorial pointed out that Israel could have ended the wave of international condemnation by stopping the genocidal campaign; instead, it seeks to prevent the world from knowing what is happening by silencing witnesses.

It considered that Israel is determined to control the narrative of the war, despite its own official figures sometimes reflecting a bleak picture of the situation, and it is willing to go to shocking extremes to achieve this. This has become the bloodiest war for journalists in modern history.

The Guardian is publishing the names of all those documented by the Committee to Protect Journalists as having been killed, both men and women, such as Fatima Hassouna, Hamza Al-Dahdoh, and Anas Al-Sharif, "who were admired for their work and were of course beloved as mothers, fathers, sons, and friends."

While it sees these as deep personal losses, it also represents - in its estimation - a whole generation of journalists being wiped out and irreparable.

It quoted Thibaut Proten, the director of Reporters Without Borders, stating: "At the rate at which journalists are being killed in Gaza by the Israeli army, soon there will be no one left to keep you informed about what is happening."

Journalists in Gaza are hungry and exhausted; they cut short their coverage in search of food for their families, or to help recover bodies from under the rubble, or to assist injured relatives in finding shelter.

The Guardian described the number of civilian casualties in Gaza as staggering, but clarified that journalists are at a greater risk as they rush towards danger sites to convey what is happening, while others are trying to save themselves.

It reported that journalists in Gaza are working in intolerable conditions; they are "hungry and exhausted, cutting short their coverage in search of food for their families, or to help recover bodies from under the rubble, or to assist injured relatives in finding shelter."

It concluded that many of them are far from their loved ones, and many others have buried their loved ones with their own hands, adding that all of them understand that fulfilling their duty to testify increases the risks they face. Nevertheless, they continue to work in defense of the truth in the face of Israel's attempts to suppress it, and these must be defended.

Source: The Guardian