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Israeli journalist says Gaza media ban, killings aim to ‘silence’ reporters
Israeli journalists held a vigil in Tel Aviv condemning Israel’s killing of an Al Jazeera news crew in Gaza on Wednesday, accusing the military of systematically targeting media workers to suppress reporting.
Oren Ziv, an Israeli journalist with +972 Magazine, explained that while most of Israeli society and mainstream media celebrated the killings of the Al Jazeera journalists, a small group was protesting to show solidarity with those working under impossible conditions in Gaza.
He said Israel is deliberately silencing Gaza’s last remaining journalists in advance of its planned assault on Gaza City, as it had also blocked international media access for nearly two years.
‘It was not God’s will that determined the fate of journalist Anas al-Sharif’: Gideon Levy
Prominent Israeli journalist Gideon Levy, writing in Haaretz and reflecting on the final words of slain Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif, rejected the notion that his death was “God’s will” – something al-Sharif had mentioned in his final message.
“It was not God’s will that determined the fate of journalist Anas al-Sharif, Levy wrote in Haaretz. “It was not the will of God, but rather a criminal Israeli military drone that targeted al-Sharif, Al Jazeera’s most prominent correspondent in the war.”
He continued: “Not God’s will but rather Israel’s will to execute him on the grounds that he had led a ‘Hamas cell,’ without presenting a shred of evidence to support this.”
In his will, al-Sharif wrote: “If these words reach you, know that Israel has succeeded in killing me and silencing my voice… I never once hesitated to convey the truth as it is, without distortion or falsification.”
The blunt criticism appearing in an Israeli news outlet is notable amid Israel’s ongoing efforts to restrict press freedom, silence critical journalists, and maintain its ban on international reporters entering the Strip.
Protesters at London vigil for slain journalists demand action from UK government
Al Jazeera’s Jonah Hull has been at a vigil in central London, paying tribute to the journalists killed in a targeted Israeli attack on Sunday, including four Al Jazeera staff and two freelancers.
The demonstration, one of a wave of protests around the world held in solidarity with the murdered journalists, was held outside Downing Street. Participants at the vigil each held the name of a media worker killed in Gaza since the war began, reading their name into a microphone.
“Speakers have aimed their message very much at the British government just across the road… talking about its complicity in what is happening in Gaza,” said Hull.
He said the protesters had asked UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer to take steps to end the targeting of journalists in Gaza, to pressure Israel to allow international journalists into the territory, and ensure a full investigation into Israel’s killing of journalists, preferably at the International Criminal Court.
‘Stop killing our colleagues’: Swedish journalists’ union rallies against Israeli attacks on Palestinian journalists
The Swedish Union of Journalists (SJF) has held a demonstration in Stockholm in solidarity with Palestinian journalists, after four Al Jazeera journalists and two freelancers were killed by Israel in the besieged enclave in a deliberate targeted assassination on Sunday.
Nearly 270 Palestinian journalists and media workers have been killed by Israel since the war began.
In a post on social media, SJF wrote the attacks on Palestinian journalists are “unacceptable and must come to an end”, adding “the message is simple – stop killing our colleagues”.
