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Israel war on Gaza: Condemnation after Israel kills two journalists in Gaza | |
2024-01-08 | |
[Aljazeera] From the liveblog:
(23:45 GMT) Here’s what happened today We will be closing this live page soon. Here’s a recap of the day’s main developments:
(22:30 GMT) Al Jazeera’s Wael Dahdouh returns to reporting hours after death of son Hamza Gaza bureau chief Wael Dahdouh has been reporting live from Khan Younis in southern Gaza, providing updates to viewers across the Arab world on the latest developments in the enclave, as Israel’s bombardment continues. On Monday morning, Wael’s son Hamza, who also worked with Al Jazeera, was one of two journalists killed in an Israeli strike on the car they were travelling in. Members of Wael’s family – including his wife Amna, another son, 15-year-old Mahmoud, his seven-year-old daughter Sham, and one-year-old grandchild Adam – were killed in an Israeli attack on the house they were staying in in October. Wael himself was injured in an attack that killed his cameraman, Samer Abudaqa, but has refused to stop reporting. (22:24 GMT) Israeli statement on killing journalists ‘doesn’t add up’ The Israeli army issued a statement responding to journalists who asked for comment all day from the Israeli army on why these journalists were targeted and killed inside of Gaza. It says: “An Israeli military aircraft identified and struck a terrorist operative who was operating an aircraft that posed a threat to troops. We are aware of the reports that during the strike, two other suspects who were in the same vehicle as the terrorists were also hit.” Just pay attention to this wording. They’re calling the journalists in the car “suspects”. We do know that third person in the car who was seriously injured was Hazem Rajab, a content creator and a journalist. If you go to his page, you can see that he operates a drone for photography purposes. And if the Israeli military is releasing this statement, they are also calling these journalists, all three of them, suspects. It’s interesting that the Israeli military took several hours to respond to questions from journalists, just releasing this statement before midnight local time. But the Israeli military is going to have a lot of other questions to answer… because what they’re saying and what happened on the ground is not adding up. (22:15 GMT) ‘Total dissonance’ in Blinken’s ‘sorry’ for Hamza Dahdouh: Analyst Blinken had said he was “deeply sorry” about the “unimaginable loss” of Wael Dahdouh, whose son was killed in an Israeli attack. “The total dissonance of being sorry about an outcome that you have actively enabled at every stage,” Middle East expert Khaled Elgindy wrote in a social media post addressing Blinken’s comments.
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Posted by:Besoeker |
#9 tl;dr: If you lie down with dogs, you get up with shrapnel. |
Posted by: SteveS 2024-01-08 23:38 |
#8 Spot on, T.W. |
Posted by: OregonDave 2024-01-08 23:31 |
#7 What the article might have missed is that the two 'journalists' were travelling in the same car as a wanted Hamas Drone Operator. From Al Jazeera: We do know that third person in the car who was seriously injured was Hazem Rajab, a content creator and a journalist. If you go to his page, you can see that he operates a drone for photography purposes. And if the Israeli military is releasing this statement, they are also calling these journalists, all three of them, suspects. They blithely ignore that the drone operator is a wanted man. I suspect that a little digging would reveal that all three miscreants are double dipping as Hamas (or other) jihadis, and probably for all three Hamas, et al is the primary and original employment, Al Jazeera being the side gig where at least part of their value is their jihadi connections that will get them to the action much faster than the usual journalist-outsider. |
Posted by: trailing wife 2024-01-08 23:04 |
#6 Why are journalists privileged people? |
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2024-01-08 22:52 |
#5 What the article might have missed is that the two 'journalists' were travelling in the same car as a wanted Hamas Drone Operator. And it is about time. The palestinians frequently use this tactic to move freely across the territories by catching rides with Journalists or Red Cross/Crescent or UNRWA. |
Posted by: mossomo 2024-01-08 12:45 |
#4 Condemnation after Israel kills two journalists in Gaza Because it wasn't twenty? |
Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-01-08 11:29 |
#3 "Journolists" |
Posted by: Frank G 2024-01-08 11:27 |
#2 William Tecumseh Sherman: 'I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.' About that alleged bombing of a hospital..... |
Posted by: Procopius2k 2024-01-08 07:38 |
#1 three-year-old girl killed by Israeli border police A Palestinian toddler around the age of four was accidentally shot and killed during attempts to kill the terrorists, Israel Police confirmed. |
Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-01-08 00:28 |