Emotional outburst on live TV from Gaza over death of reporter encapsulates collective grief
Emotional outburst on live TV from Gaza over death of reporter encapsulates collective grief
The on-air outburst of grief by Salman al-Bashir seemed to channel the mood of all Gaza
“No one is looking at us or the extent of this disaster or the crimes that we are experiencing in Gaza,” he said. Still holding his microphone, he slid off his flak jacket marked with the word PRESS and unstrapped his helmet.
“These protection jackets and helmets don't protect us,” he said, flinging the equipment to the ground. “Nothing protects journalists. ... We lose our lives for no reason.”
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This is heartbreaking, I don’t know what else to say. The justification that these casualties are acceptable because “Hamas is there too” is just nonsense. If that’s the case why won’t Israel let civilians cross the border into Israel to prevent their murder?
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That would humanize those whom they oppress.
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I doubt Hamas was at this reporter's house, which was singled out by Israel for an airstrike, which they then pretended to know nothing about.
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Makes you wonder what they do get away with
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Nuke the whole world, hamas is on the planet. Killing all humans is the only way to be sure.
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Shh, don't give them ideas!
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eh, just gaza
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They even deported some stranded Palestinian workers to Gaza. Imagine that!
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I wanna preface this with "Israel is clearly in the wrong for these attacks and civilians casualties are not an acceptable consequence of this conflict" but as others have already mentions: Israel not taking in Palestinians is very clearly because you can't reliably filter out hamas from Palestinian civilians. That doesn't make what their doing OK, it's just the very obvious reason for them not doing what you're suggesting. It doesn't help that these continues attacks probably makes the civilians population more likely to want to retaliate against the government. "You make the monsters you want to fight" and a that.
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The denial of basic necessities for human survival and the driving of civilians southward is a coordinated push to expel the populous from the Gaza Strip. They've attempted back channel deals to scrub Egypt's debt for them to take in the civilians. Their "plan" to ship the expelled around the world has been leaked. People understand this, and thus, the only logical solution is for Israel to take care of these people whose lives they are shattering. They can't leave their land or Israeli land or they won't get it back. Whether it's worth dying over is largely out of the Palestinians in Gaza hands for the moment.
This can't be made someone else's problem, because that's exactly what Israel wants and that should make their motivations very clear.
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Palestinians is very clearly because you can’t reliably filter out hamas from Palestinian civilians.
This is also a fucking BS, sure you disapprove but you can't even put that on the table. Right now, Israel is fabricating more than ever the so called "terrorists", that's why they conflate the term with resistance fighter. Don't you fucking think it is a traumatic situation?! Bombing, displacing, cut water/electricity/food ...
At the very very least, it should have been a terrestrial attack, but they are so coward and reluctant to anything not jewish (last bit is in their book), that they go freestyle and free of consequence.
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If that’s the case why won’t Israel let civilians cross the border into Israel to prevent their murder?
Whether you agree with Israeli attacks or not, obviously the answer to this is because it's impossible to filter out Hamas terrorists, which is the main thing they're trying to prevent.
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My dude has never seen a customs office or checkpoint in his life
No its obviously because Israel doesn't care about Palestinians lol. They wouldn't have literally any of these issues if they hadn't been doing like 80 years worth of state sponsored occupation and murder.
You really think the people in Gaza chose to willingly leave their former homes and land to move into a military enclave?
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Why does Israel not let people leave and use its famed intelligence services to identify who the Hamas fighters are? It is looking like the Israeli government simply prefers collective punishment or even genocide.
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How do you know who is Hamas and who is a civilian? It's not like Hamas honorably sticks to identifiable uniforms in this war they started
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Why would you let people who may or may not be criminals / terrorists into your country ? What do you think this is the usa southern border ?
Would you let random people come flooding into your house ?
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The US southern border is so scary. Migrant workers enter the US every day, it's terrible. These people are going to ruin America by looking for better lives for themselves and their families. /s
I've lived very close to the US/Mexico border most of my life. There aren't any criminals and terrorists coming to live here. It's all just people looking for better lives. The criminals smuggle drugs and people over, but they don't move over here too often, and even if they do, it's just to sell drugs. There are no terrorists amongst them, idk where you got that idea.
Don't fall for right wing propaganda about the US/Mexico border.
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At 8:30 p.m. Thursday, after signing off from a live report on Gaza's soaring death toll, Abu Hatab headed to his nearby home in Khan Younis where he lived with his wife, six children, brother and brother's family, his colleagues said.
On his way, he spoke to the Palestine TV bureau chief, Rafat Tidra.
“He was so professional, as always,” Tidra said. “In that conversation, he was focused on what he was going to report the next day, how we were going to work.”
At around 9:30, an Israeli airstrike hit his house, wiping out the Abu Hatab family. No one survived. His neighbor's houses only sustained limited damage from the blast.
So was there a Hamas base under this journalist's private residence or something?!
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The IDF also murdered 972 Magazine journalist Khalil Abu Yahia.
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Even if there is a hamas base under, it doesn't justify the killing.
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It's easy to take an enlightened centerist approach here saying things like "both sides do awful things" and "everyone should stop". And while to a point that this is true, there has a history of revenge repesials going back devades. But that really ignores the vast power imblance between Israel and the strip.
From basic utilities to free movement on roads to kicking Palestinians out of their homes in favor of Israeli settlers. It's a small easy thing to relax in your chair and say everyone is wrong, but this conflict can end when Isreal stops their oppression. Not providing clean water and bombing medical infrastructure is genocide all by itself. Gaza is an open air prison where movement is restricted. It's high minded arrogant nonsense to say Gaza should focus on their own country when Isreal is literally bombing their water wells.
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Both sides do awful things. Everyone should stop.
But let's be honest here, the area didn't belong to the zionists for a really long time. The international community forced Palestinians off of their land and for a good 70 years Palestinians they have suffered. Zionists should not have been given the means to invade the Palestinians.
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🥹😘
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this conflict can end when Isreal stops their oppression
It can end when hamas surrenders.
Not providing clean water and bombing medical infrastructure is genocide all by itself.
It wasn't a problem before October 7th. Maybe hamas should've done something about preventing such a situation, to build water purification facilities etc. Also maybe not build war infrastructure under medical infrastructure.
It's high minded arrogant nonsense to say Gaza should focus on their own country when Isreal is literally bombing their water wells.
It's low minded arrogant nonsense to say that Israel should not react to attacks of terrorists who vowed to not stop attacks until they destroy Israel with it's 9 million population.
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Whoa israel just directly bombed his house with his whole family inside because he was press. What the fuck.
israel is saying they will kill you AND your entire family of you report on their war crimes.
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There is a word for what Israel is doing: Holocaust.
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The article doesn't have the video, at least I didn't see it.
Here it is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3yDx_VWPd8
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It's a picture embedded in the article, no video.
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Damn
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So now Israel targets Hamas AND the press? The latter just feels so wrong.
This comment is now a downvote farm.
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No they were targeting them specifically from the beginning, not just now.
At least 31 Journalists have been killed and we're not even a month in.
Here's the wiki site that keeps count: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_journalists_killed_in_the_2023_Israel–Hamas_war
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Here are current year and prior maps to 92' that you can tweak from the Committee to Protect Journalists. It really helps to change search parameters like causation, year, region etc, to get a very full view of how absolutely abnormal the number of journalist deaths are.
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Israel has a storied history now of killing journalists, here is the most famous example:
https://www.vox.com/2022/5/11/23067365/shireen-abu-akleh-palestinian-journalist-killed-israel
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God damn.
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A video, since the website doesn't seem to have it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3yDx_VWPd8
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That kid was definitely ready to take his vest and helmet
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Yes, the situation in Gaza is awful and a tragedy in every way imaginable. It is a war zone.
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if your protection gear isnt working, get better gear. if that isnt possible, it may be time to rethink your life decisions.