On Monday, the Israeli military killed two journalists in Gaza in separate attacks, continuing the IDF’s rampant targeting of Palestinian reporters.
Mohammad Mansour, a correspondent for Palestine Today TV, was killed by an Israeli airstrike on a home near the southern city of Khan Younis. Two women were also killed by the attack.
In northern Gaza, 23-year-old Hossam Shabat, a reporter for Al Jazeera, was killed by an Israeli strike on his car. Shabat was also a contributor to the American news site Drop Site News. He was previously put on a kill list by the IDF, which accused him of being a “terrorist” without providing evidence.
“Israel publicly put Hossam on a kill list and he would receive threatening calls and warnings. He saw his friends murdered. Yet he never ceased his journalism, his absolute dedication to showing the world the reality of the Israeli genocide against the Palestinians of Gaza,” Jeremy Scahill, co-founder of Drop Site News, wrote on X.
According to Gaza’s Government Media Office, the deaths of Mansour and Shabat brought the total number of journalists killed by Israel in Gaza since October 2023 to 208.
The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate described Israel’s actions as the “deadliest massacre against journalists in modern history—amidst an alarming international silence and disgraceful complicity with the crimes of the occupation.”
The killing of Mansour and Shabat came less than a week after Israel restarted its large-scale bombing of Gaza last Tuesday. “I thought it was over and I’d finally get some rest, but the genocide is back in full force, and I’m back on the front lines,” Shabat recently wrote on X.
Al Jazeera reported that Israeli attacks on Gaza on Monday had killed at least 65 Palestinians, a number that’s expected to rise as relentless Israeli strikes continue.
I will literally cheer on Israel's destruction. Bless me father for I have sinned. It's been 17 months since I've been antiwar.
Welcome to the dark side.
You will not live that long to cheer Israel's destruction.
You don't know that.
… as the New York Times pats itself on the back for standing up to Trump while egging on the Israelis.
Any surprises there?
I would consider recommending charges at the ICC.
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The videos were devastating.
Shabat other job was a sniper in Hamas’s Beit Hanoun Battalion.
Just when I thought I couldn’t like him any more….
According to who? And did he shoot children in the head if he was? Like the IDF snipers.
Were you two in the same battalion?
So what? "self defense". Isn't that what Israel keeps whining about all the time?
Originally in wrong spot
This is Hossam's team, and we are sharing his final message
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"If you're reading this, it means I have been killed – most likely targeted – by the Israeli occupation forces. When this all began, I was only 21 years old – a college student with dreams like anyone else. For past 18 months, I have dedicated every moment of my life to my people. I documented the horrors in northern Gaza minute by minute, determined to show the world the truth they tried to bury. I slept on pavements, in schools, in tents-anywhere I could. Each day was a battle for survival. I endured hunger for months, yet I never left my people's side.
By God, I fulfilled my duty as a journalist. I risked everything to report the truth, and now, I am finally at rest-something I haven't known in the past 18 months.
I did all this because I believe in the Palestinian cause. believe this land is ours, and it has been the highest honor of my life to die defending it and serving its people.
I ask you now: do not stop speaking about Gaza. Do not let the world look away. Keep fighting, keep telling our stories- until Palestine is free.
– For the last time, Hossam Shabat, from northern Gaza.
https://x.com/HossamShabat/status/1904219854183313461
What a brave guy…!
Just before I read your comment i wanted to post that the media and Anti-War are using all the wrong headlines by "Israel kills so and so and on and on forever. It should instead read: "Israel with the full help of the USA and the EU kill Palestinians and Muslims at will daily and the world looks on". The UN, the ICC, the criminal courts are all tossed aside by the killing machine empire.
Now even students in the US and the EU are no longer allowed to speak freely when it comes to Israel. Universities side with the killers because they want their money from uncle Sam.
Let's not forget antiwardotcom is based on US and the current lawless government can shut it down anytime for any it-went-too-far reasons such as your suggestion…!
Yes, and that's the pity. everyone is afraid of the empire.
Killing journalists to control the narrative… But don't worry; we can be reassured that USA will make a Hollywood movie that will justify the story and deflect the blame.
…and everyone should ban seeing such movies…!