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SvennoJ on 11 August 2025
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‘Netanyahu will destroy all of Gaza unless Western countries apply sanctions’

Mustafa Barghouti, the secretary-general of the Palestinian National Initiative, says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will continue the genocide in Gaza and ethnically cleanse the Palestinian enclave if Western countries fail to take punitive actions against him.

“Netanyahu is getting away with it, as well as with other crimes committed in Gaza, assassinating journalists, killing doctors, nurses, professionals, civilians and children,” Barghouti said from Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.

“More than 60,000 children have been killed or injured now in Gaza by the Israeli army. And he is getting away with all of that because the countries in the world that claim to be holding the international law and respecting the international law, the countries who claim to be democracies, mainly Western countries, are not imposing any sanctions on him,” the politician said.

“And he will continue the destruction to the level of maybe destroying all of [the] Gaza Strip and conducting a total ethnic cleansing of the population of Gaza as long as punitive acts are not used against him.”

 

CPJ calls for accountability in al-Sharif’s assassination

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) says it is “appalled” by Israel’s killing of Al Jazeera journalists Anas al-Sharif, Mohammed Qreiqeh, Ibrahim Zaher and Mohammed Noufal.

“Israel’s pattern of labeling journalists as militants without providing credible evidence raises serious questions about its intent and respect for press freedom,” said the CPJ’s regional director, Sara Qudah.

“Journalists are civilians and must never be targeted. Those responsible for these killings must be held accountable,” Qudah added.

As we reported earlier, Al-Sharif’s assassination comes after the CPJ warned that Israel was carrying out a “smear campaign” against al-Sharif, in a potential “precursor to justify assassination”.



Australian legislator denounces Israeli killing of Al Jazeera crew

Australian Senator David Shoebridge, a member of the Australian Greens, noted that the assassination of the Palestinian journalists comes as Israel continues to prevent foreign journalists from entering Gaza.

“Now the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza has been murdered by Israel with the killing of Anas al-Sharif, Mohammed Qreiqeh, Ibrahim Zaher and Mohammed Noufal,” he said.

“Every day they try to hide the truth of the genocide they are committing,” he added.