KEVIN GOSZTOLA, [email protected], @kgosztola
Editor of The Dissenter Newsletter, Gosztola just wrote the piece “Israeli Double-Tap Strike On Hospital Kills At Least Five Journalists In Gaza.”
A “double-tap” refers to a second strike designed to kill journalists and other first responders, see videos.
[Valerie Zink just resigned as a stringer for Reuters, writing: “By repeating Israel’s genocidal fabrications without determining if they have any credibility — willfully abandoning the most basic responsibility of journalism — Western media outlets have made possible the killing of more journalists in two years on one tiny strip of land than in WWI, WWII, and the wars in Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia, and Ukraine combined, to say nothing of starving an entire population, shredding its children, and burning people alive.”]
Gosztola quotes “Hind Khoudary, a Palestinian journalist who works for Al Jazeera English, reacted, ‘I have no idea how many times are we going to continue reporting on the killing of our colleagues. …’
“According to Khoudary’s report, ‘Israeli forces launched an explosive suicidal drone, where it hit the rooftop of Nasser Hospital.’ At least one journalist and another civilian were killed. ‘Civil defense teams went up to try to retrieve the body, tried to rescue whoever was wounded. And also journalists went to document what’s happened and then the Israeli forces targeted another airstrike on the same exact location.’ …
“The double-tap strike, which is a war crime, killed Mohamed Salama, an Al Jazeera journalist; Hossam al-Masri, a Reuters photojournalist; Mariam Abu Daqqa, a freelance journalist who was contracted by the Associated Press; Moaz Abu Taha a journalist contracted by NBC; Abu Aziz, a freelance journalist who contributed reporting to Middle East Eye. … “In Gaza, the death toll for journalists now easily exceeds 250 journalists. This particular attack occurred a little less than two weeks after the Israeli military assassinated Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif.”
“Both Reuters and the AP offered rather worthless statements on Israel killing their journalists. AP said it was ‘shocked and saddened,’ and when it first announced on X that Daqqa was killed, they didn’t even include her name.”
“’The Israeli occupation targets journalists because they convey the truth and the images for the outside world,’ Abu Daqqa previously declared. ‘The Israeli occupation doesn’t want anyone to report. It doesn’t want the outside world to know what’s happening to us, from targeting and killing children to genocide. … Stop the war on Gaza. Hand in hand, all countries have the power to stand against Israel to stop the war on Gaza.”